Advice on overclocking

Heaven Can Wait · 14 Jan 2007 at 00:36

The ram is three sticks, 1gb and two 512's, they have different timings though, will this matter?

Oh and i expected the HT to be at 5 at default, its at 4?

Looked around in the bios to lower the RAM frequency, cant find it though?

weescott · 14 Jan 2007 at 01:04

First off your ram is single channel. with your ram is should be dual channel. The slowest ram speed dictates your overall ram speed but should not dictate your potential overclock.

more info please.

Heaven Can Wait · 14 Jan 2007 at 01:21

Msi k8n neo2 plat mobo

PinkFloyd · 14 Jan 2007 at 02:30

weescott said:
First off your ram is single channel. with your ram is should be dual channel.

He said he has a 1gb stick and 2x512s, you sure that should be dual channel?

Heaven Can Wait · 14 Jan 2007 at 02:34

if this wont affect ocing, what settings should i use?

IceShock · 14 Jan 2007 at 02:44

i wouldnt try dual channeling 3 sticks, no way.

dont even think its possible

for the ram timings change them to the same as the 1gb stick (if they support it)

weescott · 14 Jan 2007 at 03:03

PinkFloyd said:
He said he has a 1gb stick and 2x512s, you sure that should be dual channel?

Yes.

ram should be at 3-4-4-8 or slacker according to SG.

Heaven Can Wait · 14 Jan 2007 at 03:39

and its 2.5-4-4-8 now right?

weescott · 14 Jan 2007 at 04:50

Ram always runs at its slowest setting. Set in the the bios to 3-4-4-8. You will never get fast pie score with this ram but you might get faster clocks, more with SC.

Heaven Can Wait · 14 Jan 2007 at 12:32

so i set the ram to this, should i take the HT down to 3? its at 4 now, expected it it be 5.

El Jimben · 14 Jan 2007 at 12:37

Heaven Can Wait said:
so i set the ram to this, should i take the HT down to 3? its at 4 now, expected it it be 5.

The HTT speed doesn't really make any difference to performance but generally you should keep it at 4 and then reduce it to 3 once the FSB is at 250 or above.

Heaven Can Wait · 14 Jan 2007 at 12:50

Just realised that while messing about with it, I cant find the setting to reduce the Bus speed? This is the RAM speed right? which shouldnt be above 200?

Heaven Can Wait · 14 Jan 2007 at 13:24

Nevermind, found it

Heaven Can Wait · 14 Jan 2007 at 13:33

Upped it to 2400
multi x10
bus speed 240
ht link 960
voltage 1.446 max

Is the voltage too high? its locking up after a minute with these settings
or too low?

El Jimben · 14 Jan 2007 at 14:26

That's not particularly high no but I would've thought that you'd be able to get further without having to up the voltage, as that particularly Venice chip should clock quite well. So you've put the RAM on a 166 divider now right so that it's running at 200MHz? When you say lockup, do you mean it just crashes after you get into windows?

Heaven Can Wait · 14 Jan 2007 at 14:50

booted into windows and froze, yeah divider is on 166, would that mean that at 2340 it would be 200Mhz?

El Jimben · 14 Jan 2007 at 14:55

I would try upping the vcore abit more then, you might have a poor clocker

I think the FSB would have to be 240 to make the RAM 200MHz.

Heaven Can Wait · 14 Jan 2007 at 21:24

Balls to it.
was planning on having a minor upgrade and clock this to see me through 6 months then get a conroe, gonna get a new chip for this instead.

what would be a nice 939 chip and graphics card for the msi k8n mobo?

Was thinking a 4400+ and a x1900?

Heaven Can Wait · 17 Jan 2007 at 03:04

Any ideas why i can clock to this, but pushing it a little further and it boots to windows, and freezes after a few seconds? I refuse to believe that this is all it will go

At 239 now, and its steady.
Doesn't sound too good at 240, and freezes a second after.

sja360 · 17 Jan 2007 at 04:48

what psu have you got?