Hi.
I'm new to forums and OC'ing so if your noob-patience is short, please move on to the next thread
I'm having trouble OC'ing the following system:
Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe (BIOS ver. 1.08)
AMD64 3500+ Winchester
1GB Kingston HyperX PC3200 Dual channel ram (2x512KB)
Asus Extreme N6800GT PCI-express
2x200 GB Maxtor SATA HDD mirrored on Nvidia RAID controller (first on adapt 1 channel 0, second on adapt 2 channel 0)
Zalman CNPS7700 cooler
For starters I have surfed the Net for a couple of weeks, searching for OC-articles and threads. There's a lots of info out there, but especially Zepo's post in this forum, and tsuehpsyde's on HardForum was extremely helpfull for a noob like myself, though the overall level of expertice seems to be high.
With these two guides at hand I started out OC'ing my system, following this recipe:
1) determine max. freq. for chipset to HTT/FSB=346
2) determine max. CPU freq. to 225*11 (2450)
249*10 (2490)
277*9 (2493)
312*8 (2496) no need to go further as a CPU-mult. at 7 gives freq. higher than chip-max.
3) determine max. RAM freq. to 260 (DDR400, 2.5, 6T, 3T, 2T, 1T) (HTF multiplier=3)
4) consolidating above results.
CPU-mult=8/HTT=312 gives mem.speed at 166, Prime95 crashes within 30 minutes
CPU-mult=9/HTT=277 gives mem.speed at 183, Prime95 crashes within 30 minutes
CPU-mult=10/HTT=249 gives mem.speed at 200, Prime95 crashes within 30 minutes
CPU-mult=11/HTT=225 gives mem.speed at 200, Prime95 crashes within 30 minutes
The mem-timings used are identical for all mem.speed. They are the recommendations af Kingston, except CAS latency, which I have loosend from recommended 2 to 2,5. With timings at 2.5, 6, 3, 2, 1T @ 200MHz it takes 2 a 2-hour beating from Memcheck without a flaw!
I have tried to raise Vcore til 1.6 and DIMMcore to 2.7, but the end result is still the same: crash in Prime95.
Well, why don't I just lower CPU-freq. even further? The answer is Greed for Speed ! Looking around at all those OC-threads has convinced me that my rig is capable of more than this - or so I hope.
If anyone here has any advice to how I move on, please let me know.
Btw (real noob question), what does noob actually stand for (I know what it means), and what is a stickie?
I'm new to forums and OC'ing so if your noob-patience is short, please move on to the next thread
I'm having trouble OC'ing the following system:
Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe (BIOS ver. 1.08)
AMD64 3500+ Winchester
1GB Kingston HyperX PC3200 Dual channel ram (2x512KB)
Asus Extreme N6800GT PCI-express
2x200 GB Maxtor SATA HDD mirrored on Nvidia RAID controller (first on adapt 1 channel 0, second on adapt 2 channel 0)
Zalman CNPS7700 cooler
For starters I have surfed the Net for a couple of weeks, searching for OC-articles and threads. There's a lots of info out there, but especially Zepo's post in this forum, and tsuehpsyde's on HardForum was extremely helpfull for a noob like myself, though the overall level of expertice seems to be high.
With these two guides at hand I started out OC'ing my system, following this recipe:
1) determine max. freq. for chipset to HTT/FSB=346
2) determine max. CPU freq. to 225*11 (2450)
249*10 (2490)
277*9 (2493)
312*8 (2496) no need to go further as a CPU-mult. at 7 gives freq. higher than chip-max.
3) determine max. RAM freq. to 260 (DDR400, 2.5, 6T, 3T, 2T, 1T) (HTF multiplier=3)
4) consolidating above results.
CPU-mult=8/HTT=312 gives mem.speed at 166, Prime95 crashes within 30 minutes
CPU-mult=9/HTT=277 gives mem.speed at 183, Prime95 crashes within 30 minutes
CPU-mult=10/HTT=249 gives mem.speed at 200, Prime95 crashes within 30 minutes
CPU-mult=11/HTT=225 gives mem.speed at 200, Prime95 crashes within 30 minutes
The mem-timings used are identical for all mem.speed. They are the recommendations af Kingston, except CAS latency, which I have loosend from recommended 2 to 2,5. With timings at 2.5, 6, 3, 2, 1T @ 200MHz it takes 2 a 2-hour beating from Memcheck without a flaw!
I have tried to raise Vcore til 1.6 and DIMMcore to 2.7, but the end result is still the same: crash in Prime95.
Well, why don't I just lower CPU-freq. even further? The answer is Greed for Speed
! Looking around at all those OC-threads has convinced me that my rig is capable of more than this - or so I hope. If anyone here has any advice to how I move on, please let me know.
Btw (real noob question), what does noob actually stand for (I know what it means), and what is a stickie?
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