Stuck at 240 HTT

[Daddyjaxx]

I have a 3200+ Winnie. I can keep it stable up to 2.4 at 240 HTT x 10, using an LDT of 400 and voltage of 1.5. This is essentially giving me a FSB of 960, correct? That is below the HTT of 1000. I have Crucial Ballistix PC3200 and it runs great at 2.5-2-2-5 at this speed. I have the PCI bus locked as well.

No matter what I do, playing with the memory speed or timing, or anything, I can't hit 250. The machine boots and gets to load windows and it crashes with a BSOD. I've actually had it up to 245 and ran Prime95 for awhile, played some Farcry, ran 3dmark 05 and everything runs fine.

Is 245 the limit for this Soltek m/b? Even playing with the multipliers may not help. This m/b only supports up to a 300 FSB. If I went down to 9x, I'd have to run 266 just to get where I am now at 10x and 240.

I would really like to hit 250 one day and leave it there.

 

[fireontheway]

Lower it down to 3X.Bump the memory clock to 260*(10X),see where it takes you.

good luck....

 

[MrK6]

I've had better luck using high HTT speeds and low multipliers. Try 267x9 and up it from there. Or you could do 300x8 and try upping it from there. But make sure your LDT multi is 3x, that's usually very stable. Good luck :thumbsup:

 

[gobucks]

see if there is an updated bios - a lot of mobos, mine included, have problems overclocking with the original BIOSes. And there is no need to lower HTT speeds yet. Usually the HTT doesn't cause an issue until around 1200MHz. Lowering it to 4x should be plenty. I've read lots of mobo reviews, and lowering it to 3x usually only buys you an extra 1-2MHz of FSB speed.

 

[Jeff7181]

If the SATA ports you're using aren't locked that could be the problem. It seems SATA controllers crap out at 235-245 MHz if they're not locked.

 

[cyberknight]

how do you know if the SATA ports are locked or not? Are the nForce3 250 ones locked (SATA 1/2)? Or should I go with the Promise ones? (SATA 3/4)