What is wrong with my overclocking?

[Marbat]

Okay, I have a Athlon 64 Winchester, 3500+ on Socket 939. It sits in an ASUS A8N SLI-Deluxe Mobo, along with a gig of dual channel Kingston Hyper-X RAM.

My problem is whenever I increase the HTT and reboot, my overall speed goes WAAAAAAAAAY down. Here is an example:

http://img216.exs.cx/img216/2973/help7km.jpg

What am I doing wrong? Keep in mind, it could be anything, since I am very new to overclocking. The RAM is PC3200, DDR400.

 

[dashiki]

have you dropped your ldt? maybe to 600 and what voltage re you using? I have mine set to 1.525 and I can get mine to 2.6ghz

 

[Tiamat]

You need to drop your HTT multiplier - LDT down from 5X to 4X if you are bumping your HTT from 200mhz to 250mhz.

 

[Marbat]

I did. I am using the guide someone here published.
I had:

HTT multi = 4x
DDR = AUTO

HTT = 232
CPU Multi = 11
DDR volts = AUTO
CPU volts = 1.6375

is there any setting that might be automatically forcing it to underclock?

 

[xbdestroya]

It looks to me like the COol n Quiet is in effect in that picture. It drops the multi to 5 and so that 232 x 5 would equal 1160 MHz. So really - no problem at all!

Try running something intensive, should shoot your CPU's speed right up.

 

[Marbat]

I ran AquaMark3, and got some shit-tastic scores, like 44,000 compared to my normal 66,000... Can I just turn off Cool n Quiet, or will that rape me?

 

[xbdestroya]

LOL, well I WISH I had your problem! For some reason the Cool n Quiet on my board won't kick in for me at all. I'm running in an Antec Aria and my idle temps are always hovering around 47C.

Anyway, yeah you should be able to turn it off though. Just uninstall the 'AMD or Athlon 64 drivers' or whatever. No problem whatsoever with not having Cool n Quiet enabled - it's just, obviously, it won't keep things cool and/or quiet. But I know lot's of people actually prefer running with it off.

 

[Marbat]

Okay, thank you destroya

Turned this off, and overclocked to 233x11.

Seems to be nice now, lemme try some benchmarks. Is this a good overclock on a 200x11 chip?

[edit] It locked up on Aquamark3, so I dropped it down to 232. Is this the right thing to do.

 

[xbdestroya]

Mine's at 222 FSB, basically because there do not seem to be any PCI/AGP locks on my motherboard. I'm content with the free 200 MHz though. I was hoping for 400 MHz orginally however. So I'm going from 1.8 to 2 GHz.

As for you, I think you're right on the money. 2550 seems to be the top *safe* overclock for a lot of the newer Athlons, so unless you want to mess around a bunch to get every last drop of juice, I think sticking with 2550 is more than good enough.