AMD 64 3200+ Venice Core OC Setup?

[Jaffa_Cake]

AMD 64 3200+ Venice Core

Hello there,

I am relativity new to this, been on pre build pc's until 4 weeks ago when I finally plucked up the courage to build my own PC.

After a long discussion with people who know about this than I do, iIchose:

CPU: AMD 64 3200+ Venice Core (skt 939)
RAM: Corsair XMS 1 GB - DIMM 184-PIN - DDR
Gfx: Sparkle 7600GS 512mb
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 - NF4

So i thought i would try and overclock it all.

Started not overclocked at CPU idle temp is 36c and 2006mhz

I then tried putting the CPU speed up to 2200mhz which worked fine at standard voltage of 1.44V. I have heard these cores can go up as high as 2700mhz on air so i tried putting it up again, slowly crept past 2350mhz on standard voltage.

As i hit 2350mhz it would not go any higher, i had left the HT link at X5 and not touched the multiplier at X10. Anything above 2350mhz would reboot the system at startup, i tried putting the voltage up everything between 0.1 and 0.3 with no effect.

Was wondering if anyone has a similar setup to get a higher clock. I have one 12 CM and one 9 CM thermaltake fans for cooling which i asume will be enough to get atleast 2500mhz from a stock of 2000.

 

[ghgh]

Try lowering the htt multiplier to 3x if you go above 250FSB and 4x if your overclocking between 200 and 250FSB.

If that doesn't work you might be running your RAM to its limit - try putting it on the 166MHz Divider.

 

[Jaffa_Cake]

I doubt its my ram, its the most expensive part of my pc

I will go try that now and post results

 

[Jaffa_Cake]

Got it clocked with ease to 2500mhz, turned the CPU/DDR ratio down, turns out the RAM was run to its limit .

Thanks for the help

 

[Gashman]

most 3200+ do 2.7Ghz with decent cooling

 

[White_hell]

Hi
Im new as well

and im trying to OC the same Processor

but i can only get it up to 2.18

otherwise it justs reboots

ive also tryed adding up the Voltage which says it can make it oc more but that doesnt work with me

any one got an idea on how i can oc it more

RAM: 3gb
GFX: 6600gt SLI (upgrading to a 8800gtx)
Motherboard: Gigabyte Nforce 4 sli GA-K8N-SLI
CPU: AMD 64 3200+ Venice Core (skt 939)

 

[t31os]

Hi
Im new as well

and im trying to OC the same Processor

but i can only get it up to 2.18

otherwise it justs reboots

ive also tryed adding up the Voltage which says it can make it oc more but that doesnt work with me

any one got an idea on how i can oc it more

RAM: 3gb
GFX: 6600gt SLI (upgrading to a 8800gtx)
Motherboard: Gigabyte Nforce 4 sli GA-K8N-SLI
CPU: AMD 64 3200+ Venice Core (skt 939)

Yeah the ram, you running 3 sticks?....... not the best setup for OC'ing, 2 matched sticks is best, just stick to 2 while you play around with the OC.

Did you put the memory on a divider?

Did you reduce the HT multi?

My 3200 Venice craps out at 2.5 but 2.4 is dead easy and only needs +0.025.

Take some pics of the memory and cpu tabs of cpu-z if you have it.

 

[titaniumx3]

What kind of clockspeeds can be achieved on an 3500+ venice?

Right now I have HTT at 250mhz, CPU multiplier at x10, HT multiplier at x4 and the RAM set at 333mhz (is that the 166 divider?). All seems stable at stock volts of 1.4v on the cpu and temps don't go above 42C in prime95.

Do you think I can raise the cpu multi to 11x? Would I need more volts?

I don't really want to screw up my system but I wouldn't mind the extra speed, since I can't upgrade till next year.