Questions on overclocking further

[Chapbass]

Alright guys, this is my first attempt at ever overclocking, so bear with me.

I grabbed the 2 gb of super talent memory rated at ddr2 667 off of the hot deals forum.

I also got an arctic freezer 7 off chieftec

mainboard is a DS-3 rev 2 on F10 bios

so ive been overclocking tonight, and i got my system to 2.8ghz (400x7). I can do 405 and its fine, but when i go to 410-415 i get no picture at all, not even to bios. Everything is at stock voltage, and orthos ran fine at 405. I backed off a little nonetheless, and im at 2.8 right now.


My pci-e is locked at 100 per some recommendations on here, but i havent touched memory timings yet (everything is still on auto i believe).


so basically i dont really know where to go from here. my whole goal going into this was to hit 3.0 ghz, and being at 2.8 right now, who knows maybe ill make it. Temperatures seem to be idling in the low to mid 30's and around 43-44 at load (while running orthos).

Those temps were taken using speedfan...not sure if i should use a diff program to monitor? my bios also confirmed the low 30's on idle. I also just got out of 1.5 hrs of day of defeat source, and everything went smooth as butter (even getting a high average of ~120-130 FPS with my 8800GTS and dell 2407! lows were around 70-80).


any suggestions on further pushing?

 

[Chapbass]

any help?

 

[Roguestar]

Screw speedfan, use the Intel TAT (google for Intel TAT). Make sure it's stable running Orthos blend for at least 8 hours, then start moving it up bit by bit. You may have to increase the VDIMM and relax the memory timings to get your memory to go much further. Start with 5-5-5-15 and 2.1V (+0.3 vDIMM) and when you've got it as high as it can go, start tightening the timings. Don't be afraid to put vDIMM up to +0.4, even.

 

[PCTC2]

you also may want to up vCore. but it may be your chip because every chip is slightly different and every chip won't overclock the same.

 

[Hulk]

Set Vcore manually at 1.4 to take that out of the equation as a variable. Most chips should do 3.0 at Vcore 1.4 with good cooling.

 

[Conky]

Definitely need more vcore by the sounds of it. Try 1.4 as Hulk said and then back her down if it runs at whatever speed you want. Do not go over 1.5v in any case. (1.55v is Intel's stated "damage starts here" level)