Winchester 3000+ Epox 9NDA3+ OCing

[MDE]

Instead or reviving my old thread let's start off fresh.

See sig for rig specifics. So far I've hit a wall at 235HTT and have tried the following:

Dropping CPU multiplier to 5
Dropping HTT multiplier to 1
Dropping RAM speed back to 100
Upping voltages to 1.5 core, 2.75 chipset, 2.8 RAM, 1.6V AGP
Moving Audigy2 ZS into different PCI slots
Unplugging extra HD and CD\DVD drives

Haven't tried:

Different PSU (I'm positive this isn't it, but if it comes down to this being the last straw I'll give it a try)
Moving Raptors to SATA 1&2 (NV5 Silencer blocks those SATA ports so I'm using 3&4 ATM)
Installing Windows to an IDE drive and OC from there

Is there anything I'm forgetting or overlooking here? Please only constructive posts, not 50 people saying "It's your wimpy PSU dude" or "Your RAM is crap, get this $300\GB stuff."

 

[Snowice]

sorry to tell you that you have to use sata 1&2 because 3&4 are NOT locekd. more on your board here.

 

[MDE]

Bah! Oh well, now to find some angled SATA cables to use 1&2 as long as the Silencer doesn't actually sit right on top of them. Thanks for your help Snowice.

 

[frankierx]

do a search for my thread here. I have all the specs u need. can you search via username?

 

[MDE]

Switched the Raptors to SATA 1&2 and I'm at 2.6GHz stable right now (albeit with a Ti4200). Thanks again.

 

[frankierx]

can you tell me how u bumped up to 2.6Ghz? I'm using same cpu and mobo. btw, i think u meant Vchipset at 1.65

 

[MDE]

Originally posted by: frankierx
can you tell me how u bumped up to 2.6Ghz? I'm using same cpu and mobo. btw, i think u meant Vchipset at 1.65

I meant 1.75 originally. I put the HTT speed up to 290, HT muliplier at 3, memory at 133 (running under DDR400) and put my Raptors on SATA 1&2. Take small steps and take your time.

 

[frankierx]

Originally posted by: MDE

Originally posted by: frankierx
can you tell me how u bumped up to 2.6Ghz? I'm using same cpu and mobo. btw, i think u meant Vchipset at 1.65

I meant 1.75 originally. I put the HTT speed up to 290, HT muliplier at 3, memory at 133 (running under DDR400) and put my Raptors on SATA 1&2. Take small steps and take your time.

if you're not running ram at 1:1 , then what is that?

 

[21stHermit]

Originally posted by: MDE
Dropping CPU multiplier to 5
Dropping HTT multiplier to 1
Dropping RAM speed back to 100
Upping voltages to 1.5 core, 2.75 chipset, 2.8 RAM, 1.6V AGP
Moving Audigy2 ZS into different PCI slots
Unplugging extra HD and CD\DVD drives

Isn't CPU multiplier meaningless? The multiplier is locked on 939 chips.

 

[JC]

Originally posted by: 21stHermit

Originally posted by: MDE
Dropping CPU multiplier to 5
Dropping HTT multiplier to 1
Dropping RAM speed back to 100
Upping voltages to 1.5 core, 2.75 chipset, 2.8 RAM, 1.6V AGP
Moving Audigy2 ZS into different PCI slots
Unplugging extra HD and CD\DVD drives

Isn't CPU multiplier meaningless? The multiplier is locked on 939 chips.

You can't raise the multiplier, but you can lower it.

 

[21stHermit]

Originally posted by: JC
You can't raise the multiplier, but you can lower it.

Thanks JC, didn't know that.
But if you do lower the multiplier, isn't that Under Clocking?
And that would defeat his OC test.

 

[MDE]

Originally posted by: 21stHermit

Originally posted by: JC
You can't raise the multiplier, but you can lower it.

Thanks JC, didn't know that.
But if you do lower the multiplier, isn't that Under Clocking?
And that would defeat his OC test.

Dropping the multiplier would rule out the CPU not being able to run at the higher speed.

Originally posted by: frankierx

Originally posted by: MDE

Originally posted by: frankierx
can you tell me how u bumped up to 2.6Ghz? I'm using same cpu and mobo. btw, i think u meant Vchipset at 1.65

I meant 1.75 originally. I put the HTT speed up to 290, HT muliplier at 3, memory at 133 (running under DDR400) and put my Raptors on SATA 1&2. Take small steps and take your time.

if you're not running ram at 1:1 , then what is that?

It's running at 193MHz (386DDR) because it won't run at 290 or even 241 (which it would run at if I used the 166 divider). The Athlon 64 is in no way starved for memory bandwidth so the dividers don't hurt performance as much as you might think.

 

[frankierx]

Okay , so how come you're not running it at 166 and instead 133?

 

[govtcheez75]

Originally posted by: frankierx
Okay , so how come you're not running it at 166 and instead 133?

read the post carefully...he explains that using the 166 divider would result in his memory running 241mhz or DDR482, which not all memory are capable of running.