Anything dodgy about this ...?

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quadboi

quadboi

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Hey, well specs in bios.. - MOVE POST IF NEEEDED...

I went into bios, changed the ram to 166mhz (DDR 333) from the previous DDR 400 (200mhz)

Put my cpu to 244x9 = 2.2ghz

The ram has gone to 199.6mhz -After doing 244x9

Are the timings fine, I mean please thoroughly look.

Got 35 Degrees UNDER LOAD IN PRIME95 with my Arctic cooling 64 freezer 64


Pics as follows:

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Please take a good luck, as I will be keeping this for a couple of years (2-3)

I want this stable ;) Also, will this be affecting my ram temperature? Or will it be just stock temperature for the ram, as its at DDR400, they have gone up with the cpu to their actual stock speeds... (200mhz)
;)

If so, how can I find my ram temps?

One last question, The "thing" I am putting up from the original 200, now at 244 is this the fsb, meaning everything on my Mobo is getting clocked?
 
Nothing's dodgy about that at all

Your memory is on a 166 divider - that means that when your CPU HTT speed is at 200MHz your memory will be at 166MHz. As you increase your CPUs HTT speed your memory speed will also increase

Your ram temperature will be normal as its running at stock

Your motherboard has AGP/PCI locks so everything else on your motherboard is running at stock - only the CPU has been overclocked. What is your HT multiplier set to? For stability you don't want your HT speed to go over 1GHz so I'd check that its set to 4x (or 800MHz - different BIOSes label it differently)
 
;) Right found the "Nb link speed" put it to 600mhz is that too low?

Or should I have it at 800mhz that is 4x I suppose.

Also, I am at 2.3ghz stock voltage atm.... ;)

Dropped the divider to 133mhz, and slowly has come to 169mhz... Which is nice

Should I OC more? Because the ram is at only 169mhz... Wouldnt it want to bea at 200mhz...
 
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Once you take the htt past 250mhz you need the 600mhz link speed. To bring your ram speed back up to 200mhz with the 133 divider your htt would need to be 310mhz, giving a cpu speed of 2790mhz.

This may be acheivable, you can only try and see, the cpu will most likely need a voltage increase to get there. Use 10mhz increases of the htt speed and test for stability after each. Patience is a virtue!
 
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Ok, will stick my divider back to 166mhz (ddr 333) ... therefore my ram will be overclocked too. is it ok if my ram is overclocked?

It is CRUCIAL pc3200 good brand for ocing? ;)
 
It's fine if your ram is overclocked. The standard Crucial Value should go to about 230MHz before causing problems

Just keep it at slack timings (3-3-3-8) and memtest it for stability - leave it to loop for a few hours. If your ram becomes unstable (too high an overclock) then your PC could experience random reboots and general instability
 
:rolleyes: Its fine, I currently have it at 208mhz... so I wont need to test stability will I just prime it (The ram test)

Due to it only being 8mhz over ;)


Also, In bios I set the voltage for my cpu to 1.450v...

However on the "reader" on the voltages it says

1.52v etc (Roughly).... = Vcore

Is that the cpu core, as Im on the asrock 939 dual, and it only allows 1.450v I thought? Due to thi sboard being pretty rubbish?

My ram timings at ddr 333 are as follows (the 8mhz increase) My cas is at 2.5


Is this ok ?

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seems like it is going well there mate. have you thought about looking at temps with speed fan or mbm5 or whatever? also if it lasts like 12 -24 hours of prime u should be clear and stable.
 
Right, I did have it on 35 degrees underload in everest and speed fan...
Primed it overnight 13 hours

I think that is SOOO hard to believe... :rolleyes:

Also, asrock 939 dual board only lets u got to 1.450 V so I selected that... However the bios says V core = 1.480v ..... Is this the cpu voltage


Everest says like 1.42 :rolleyes:
 
Ease up on the rollies

You asked me of it's OK if your ram is overclocked and I said yes. I mentioned memtest just as a reassurance. I also gave you an indication as what to expect from the Crucial ram

The ASROCK board does max out at a relatively low voltage which is 1.45V IIRC. Your motherboard could be over volting slightly or the software could be reading inaccurately
 
Wish I could stick more volts in my CPU :eek:
You should have seen me butchering my 4400 with a Stanley knife the other day, it didn't boot up afterwards till I swore at it a few times :p
Then there’s the time my water cooling squirted coolant all over my lovely 5900 (not) and well, that bit the dust :D
Suffice it to say, my old Celeron 300 @ 464 and P3 733 @ 933 are still kicking, even though I once put 2.9v through my Cely :cool:
 
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Do not know the stepping it will go to 2.4ghz on stock voltage however , the ram has to be dropped to a 133 divider therfore my ram will run at 171mhz, which I feel will be a performance drop what do you guys think?


(The ram wont run 2.4ghz AND on the 166 divider) Its Crucial Value ram, 2x512mb pc3200
Also what motherboard
Edit : 50% Oc ? Wow, on what voltage and what divider is ram on? And the ram mhz
 
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