BIOS for DS3 (not DS3P) for OCing

[FrenchTart]

Hi there.

I've not messed with my oc for a few months now...

Originally, I switched to a 4300 from a 6400 (I thought the extra multi might help, and it cost negative money to do so, so heyho) and though I can hit roughly the same clock speed on the processor (~3.2ghz), I can't seem to get the thing to work at 400 FSB (dropped the multi back down....oh the irony).

Now, at the same time as switching, I also moved to Crucial Anniversary ram and *may* have updated my BIOS. Like I said, it's been a few months

Anyhow, I've finally got a little time to play with it and try to sort the problem. I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations for a BIOS version to use as I've seen mixed reports about the later versions that are available. Some say that F8 is better for oc'ing than F10 or whatever....

Any help will be muchly appreciated

 

[FrenchTart]

Indeed. The NB gets rather toasty I swapped out the HS for the thermalright NB-cooler a while back. Doesn't seem to have done much but heyho, looks nice I guess....

IIRC, the Crucial Anniversary stuff is Micron D9 chips, is it not? Guess I'll steer clear of F5 then

What's comical is that previously I did have the FSB at 400, or about 450/460 when I played with some other setting. I've no idea what I messed up in order to leave it stuck at about 360 :/ (it wasn't when I swapped then NB heatsink)

I guess it's been too long since I've looked at it - really need to remind myself just what on earth I've set it all to

 

[FrenchTart]

Indeed. That's the odd thing.

On my 6400, 400x8 worked fine.
(sorry, typo earlier - it was a 6400, not a 6300)

On the 4300, 360something x 9 works.
Dropping the multi to 8 and trying 400 FSB doesn't work :?

As said, though, there's loads of extra variables that I introduced so I've probably messed something up somewhere.

 

[FrenchTart]

Good plan. Could well be my problem

I'll post back with my results once I get a chance to give this all a good going-over, so to speak.