Some help with Asrock duel sata 2 oc'ing

[SpeedZealot369]

Ok.. so since I got my x1900xt I want to see if speeding up my 3200+ amd64 will make any difference, I don't think 2ghz can cut it anymore.

Anyway, I tried setting the fsb to 290, with a 133mhz divider for the ram, put HT link to 3x, but then the pc didnt post so I had to clear cmos and all that...

So can anyone give some advice or show me where to go to get some? I'm sure there are websites that have guides and stuff, just point me in the right direction please

Either way thanks for any help.



****** Ok so I got it to 2.47ghz, but now my memory is at 170mhz. How can I get the mem to 200?

Should I do 10x multi, with 247fsb and 166mhz divider?





-SZ

 

[grooge]

There is no magic formula..just try and test ...

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: grooge
There is no magic formula..just try and test ...

Pretty much. You learn the basic guidelines and after that it's just trial and error...

And yeah, 247x10 with a 166MHz RAM divider would give you about 205-206MHz on the RAM, which pretty much any PC3200 should be able to do with ease. Due to the way memory dividers work on A64 platforms, you can't get a specific memory frequency, you just have to use the mem divider that gets you closest to your desired speed.

Edit: I would first work on finding your max CPU speed (though it sounds like you're doing this already), and then use a memory divider that will maximize your RAM speed (as much as it can handle and still be stable). CPU speed is far more important than RAM speed on A64's (for reference, I got higher video encoding rates at 2.7GHz CPU/180MHz RAM than I did at 2.6GHz/216MHz).

 

[SpeedZealot369]

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: grooge
There is no magic formula..just try and test ...

Pretty much. You learn the basic guidelines and after that it's just trial and error...

And yeah, 247x10 with a 166MHz RAM divider would give you about 205-206MHz on the RAM, which pretty much any PC3200 should be able to do with ease. Due to the way memory dividers work on A64 platforms, you can't get a specific memory frequency, you just have to use the mem divider that gets you closest to your desired speed.

Edit: I would first work on finding your max CPU speed (though it sounds like you're doing this already), and then use a memory divider that will maximize your RAM speed (as much as it can handle and still be stable). CPU speed is far more important than RAM speed on A64's (for reference, I got higher video encoding rates at 2.7GHz CPU/180MHz RAM than I did at 2.6GHz/216MHz).

Ok so I'm at 2.42ghz with 202mhz ram my first overclock.

My games seem to be running faster too

Thanks guys