Overclocking

[Blyths]

Hi All

Just Began Overclocking ( my Spec just be below )

I have manged to get to 240 X 11 = 2640 Cpu

240 X 4 = 960 HT

At Stock Voltages.

If I try to increase RAM voltage the system wont boot to windows.

Is this a fault with my Memory and this board do you think?

So it looks like I will have to adjust only the Cpu V and mayby Chipset.

What would you say a safe voltage is for this CPU? I think about 1.65/1.70

Am not sure about the Chipset.

My target is 3Ghz.

My Ram should be OK to 277 , so Hopefully I can get 277 X 11 = 3047 Cpu

277 X 4 = 1108 HT

What do you guys think?

Many thanks

 

[Blyths]

The RAM am using was bulit to be used in i845 chipsets with hyperthreading so this is most likley the problem.

What RAM do you guys recommend to use?

Thanks

 

[stocky]

oops, just posted in the other post.

Basically BH-5 for benching, and 2GB of TCCD/TCC5 for everything else as far as I know...

What chips are in the RAM you have?

Also, try the RAM in the other slots with the higher voltage - with this board, it may just work!

 

[Blyths]

Thanks Stocky

I have already moved them into the orange slots and that solved my Boot problems so I really dont wont to move them again.

I think it must be that they were built for that certain board to be used with P4s

Thanks for your help

 

[stocky]

You are probably correct because I have a feeling that those OCZ PC4400 are Hynix chips not TCCD. I found Hynix to be the most stable at higher FSB's with that chipset. But have never tried any on the AMD platform.

Have a look about for some TCCD/TCC5 based RAM, or BH-5 if you're thinking of sticking with 1GB

 

[maverik-sg1]

Okay, firstly check to see how high a FSB you can achieve.

If it 285+ then some DDR600 ram is what you - if you are stuck around the 260Mhz range then go for some OCZ VX PC4000, Mushkin redline PC4000 or some BH-5 (old skool from popular auction sites) - the high voltage rams will allow you to run 260+ mhz at 2-2-2-5 timings which is ideal for benching - but if you can achieve hogh FSB under phase then you really want to run teh memory 1:1 with teh CPU and it's time to switch to TCCD where the bandwidth at reasonable timings will allow to to score good also.

Cheers

Mav

 

[Highland3r]

Can you post the settings your running atm? If you grab a screeny with A64 tweaker, CPU-z (open at CPU screen) and Smartguardian it'll give a good idea of what your doing.

1.6/1.7 will be fine under phase (hell run that on water) chipset wise, shouldnt need to increase it much/at all to run the far side of 300HTT. LDT voltage can help a little if you're running a high overall HTT speed though. 1108 should be fine HTT speed wise, have run 300*4 without an issue on SLI-D before, with 1.5v LDT voltage.

Ram wise, if you're benching then as above old skool BH, or some newer UTT based (ie Redline 1gb or OCZ VX)

If not, then any 2GB kit based on Samsung UCCC (ie Gskill HZ, Corsair XMS 4400 PT) will be the cheapest option and give you a pretty easy time.

The 2GB kits based on CE-6 (EB/Redline 2gb) tend to hold tighter timings but are a little harder to get working nicely. All depends on what you want

 

[Blyths]

Hi

It appears I was right and the OCZ ram I was using is no good for my setup.

I changed to GSkill PC4400 and managed to get to

FSB 277 X 11 = 3048

LDT/FSB X 4 = 1108

Vcore @ 1.42

RamV @ 2.70

The only thing am confused about is my 3DMark06 Score?

It gone to 5788? I was getting 7763 at 240X11=2640.

Any Idears?

My other scores seem fine

Aquamark3 = 117,258

3DMark05 = 13,951

2001SE = 33,207

Thanks

 

[stocky]

That is odd. It could well be that the cards are clocked to far, so they are throttling? Run up Rivatuner > First Customise Tag > Harware Monitoring (Magnifying glass). Now run 3DMark06 and you will see if anything suspicious is going on

A higher FSB, should mean that you achieve a higher overall score; 3DMark06 is definitely the most confusing for me! 8)

 

[Blyths]

Just Ran 3DMark06 Again and this time got 8014! Which is proberly about right.

God knows what happened before.

Anyway thanks for you advice, Stocky mate.

 

[maverik-sg1]

Dont forget to log your scores in our 3d team - EPUK needs you guys to keep the challenge pushing ever forward

 

[Blyths]

I seem to be getting high temps.

Is 68c for the PWM Area to high?

and 58c for the Chipset?

The cpu shows -5c

This is what is shown in the Bios.

Thanks