This doesn't seem right

[Wordguy]

I just bought an A64 CG 3000 processor and an MSI K8n neo platinum motherboard and a new trupower 430 watt psupply. I needed DDR ram so my Sdram was useless so my friend gave me 256 of Kingston value ram pc2100. I put it all together and raised the Htt to 250 and it worked! Cpuz and Sandra all confirmed it was running at 2500mhz on a retail heatsink/fan and with no volt changing of ram or cpu. I ran cpumark and sandra to confirm and to see if it errored but it is fine! I just thought this was a high speed for no real mods. Tell me if Im right or wrong. processor looks to be a CG model. Thanks, George........yeah, ram is running at 166.7

 

[chuwawa]

Well...maybe the board automatically sets a divider for the ram...so your ram may not actually be running at 250htt. Or you got 1 hell of a memory chip =)

 

[AutomaticErik]

Yeah, the 3000+ chips are hitting some very good speeds. Chances are, that RAM is set using a divider that the BIOS auto-detected. What does CPU-Z show the memory running at?

 

[Mik3y]

Originally posted by: Wordguy
I just bought an A64 CG 3000 processor and an MSI K8n neo platinum motherboard and a new trupower 430 watt psupply. I needed DDR ram so my Sdram was useless so my friend gave me 256 of Kingston value ram pc2100. I put it all together and raised the Htt to 250 and it worked! Cpuz and Sandra all confirmed it was running at 2500mhz on a retail heatsink/fan and with no volt changing of ram or cpu. I ran cpumark and sandra to confirm and to see if it errored but it is fine! I just thought this was a high speed for no real mods. Tell me if Im right or wrong. processor looks to be a CG model. Thanks, George

hmm...that doesnt seem right. wut are your temps? prime stable? and i dont understand how you can have your ram run at 250mhz. i've been able to get generic pc2100 to run at 200mhz, but not even high quality/performance ram can run an overclock like that stable without even a voltage increase. but ya, that sounds really interesting. can u run some benchies to show if you really have an improvement over your cpu at stock speeds?

 

[Shimmishim]

if you didn't mess with any bios settings, then your ram is most likely running at spd and is automatically running a divider...

i highly doubt that your pc2100 which is 133 mhz would be running at 250 mhz...

and also depends on how many volts you are putting through that ram...

 

[Zebo]

Your ram is set to auto, meaning it reads SPD, meaning you're running 125Mhz or 166Mhz bus (defaulting to 100 or 133 mem setting)

Read the chips on sticks off to us. I don't believe KVR put hynix on anything but 2700 and above and even then it was rare.


Good news is , as I've been seeing validated for a couple weeks now, every AX (CG) can hit 2500mhz on stock air.

 

[Yanagi]

Now just to wait for the the .09 parts to hit the streets and see what speeds those will hit. Once they've matured 2.8GHz-3.0Ghz would not be impossible on air.

 

[Wordguy]

Cpuz said memory was running at 166.7 so I guess it isnt 1:1. But the good news is Sisoft Sandra put my $150 processor at the top of its charts!! yay! ps I just bought some pc3200 Mushkin ram so I hope it overclocks well enough along with a raptor harddrive. Do Sata harddrives have problems overclocking?

 

[CraigRT]

I think pretty much any CG CPU is capable of a decent OC... my 3200+ would reach the same levels (but my RAM sucks so I went back to stock for now)

 

[Shimmishim]

Originally posted by: Wordguy
Cpuz said memory was running at 166.7 so I guess it isnt 1:1. But the good news is Sisoft Sandra put my $150 processor at the top of its charts!! yay! ps I just bought some pc3200 Mushkin ram so I hope it overclocks well enough along with a raptor harddrive. Do Sata harddrives have problems overclocking?

as long as the board has locked pci/agp oc-ing should be no problems with the sata drive

 

[Tiamat]

Originally posted by: Shimmishim

Originally posted by: Wordguy
Cpuz said memory was running at 166.7 so I guess it isnt 1:1. But the good news is Sisoft Sandra put my $150 processor at the top of its charts!! yay! ps I just bought some pc3200 Mushkin ram so I hope it overclocks well enough along with a raptor harddrive. Do Sata harddrives have problems overclocking?

as long as the board has locked pci/agp oc-ing should be no problems with the sata drive

I think i read somewhere, where Abit/Asus boards were corrupting SATA HDDs above 260mhz HHT. Is this correct? Those boards supposedly had the working AGP and PCI slots too - or is this old, solved news?

 

[imported_pak9rabid]

i know this is a little off topic, but while we're talking about strange occurances, about 2-3 months ago i was building a system for someone with the Athlon xp 2000+ cpu on a shuttle mobo (nforce2 chipset). after putting everything together and booting it up, the cpu would always boot up as a 2600+. my first reaction was "uh oh, this things gonna FRY (basically stock cooling)". i tried and tried but i couldn't get the cpu to go to it's normal frequency. so i decided, "what the hell", if i fry the cpu, i could always take it back to frys and tell them it was bad. so i ran an install of winxp. fine. installed all the updates, fine. installed MBM and it said it was running at the normal temp of around 47 celcius. and, just for those who think that i they may have slipped me an actual 2600 instead, i had it originally in another mobo that read it as a 2000, then ended up returning it because i totally fried the board due to my own stupidity. just thought it was a weird thing to have happen. any suggestion to what might have been causing it to boot as a 2600 instead of a 2000?

 

[imported_pak9rabid]

oh yeah, forgot to mention. from time to time the guy i built this sytem for will call me to help him get spyware n such off his comp, so i know that it's still running as a 2600 fine without any problems.