Clocked AMD 64 3000+ Venice

chrislocalboy

chrislocalboy

chrislocalboy

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Hello just asking for a little advice, recently had my first attempt at overclocking today, got my 3000+ (1.8Ghz) up to a 3500+ (2.2Ghz) and all seemed to be going well that was until I started to have a few games of COD2 Multiplayer, every so often when playing my PC will just throw up a plain blank blue screen and I have to reboot.

Does anyone know what this indicates or what could be causing this? is my CPU getting a little warm and throwing its dummy? after the reboot I ran Everest and it was telling me my CPU was at 45 degrees C but that seems an acceptable temperature but bearing in mind this was the reading after a reboot.

For now I have reduced my CPU to 2Ghz just to be on the safe side but have yet to test this with a COD2 session.

Any ideas, suggestions or views would be very much appreciated.

Cheers

Gigabyte GA-K8N Ultra SLI
AMD 64 3000+ Venice (clocked to 3200+)
2Gb PC3200 Corsair RAM
Sapphire ATI X800XT
 
Thanks for your replies guys.

So lets put this in total noob terms because thats what I am at the moment, in effect I need to turn my memory down a notch to enable it to be clocked back up along with the CPU Frequency?

The trouble with a lot of these guides is that every BIOS is different and the dumb manufacturers cannot all agree and stick to using the same terminology as each other and most of the time I dont have a clue what setting I'm looking for!

Dont know if any of you are familar with the Gigabyte BIOS but I have a section called MIT, which is basically the tweaking section, would one of you be able to maybe list some of the settings I should be looking for?as when you say are you running your memory in 1:1......... I have no idea :o) and from what I have seen already there were no settings in the 1:1 format.

Cheers

Just had a thought, I have some shots of my BIOS I got of the web, how can I add them into a thread so you can see them and then tell me which settings I need to change? Cheers
 
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Ok thanks for the advice, I have read through a good guide I found on the net and had already put som of it into place by the time I saw your post and infact have Prime95 running as I type.

If I were to take some pics of the settings I have changed in my bios would you be able to take a look at them for me as I have found it difficult changing the settings as the guides use terms and phrases which most of the time is not the same as the terminology in my BIOS and see if I am on the right track and/or make some suggestions as to what I should change?

If so could someone please tell me how to insert a picture into a thread as I cant seem to get the insert image thingy to work, when I click it just asks me to insert some text..... I have tried putting in the location of the file but that dont work!!! please tell me how as screenies would make this thing so much easier!!!

Cheers
 
Right couple of shots for you to examine;

http://server6.theimagehosting.com/image.php?img=BIOS1.JPG

http://server6.theimagehosting.com/image.php?img=BIOS2.JPG

Hoping these work so you can have a butchers, now I'm only running at 2.2Ghz at the moment and want it to run steadily at 2.4Ghz, I will be well chuffed if I can get it to that speed and it be stable..... not being greedy.

Let me know your suggestions or things that would think need changing.

Cheers

Oh heres my current setup

AMD 64 3000+ Venice
Gigabyte GA-K8N Ultra-SLI
Sapphire ATI X800XT
1Gb Corsair DDR PC3200 RAM 2 x 512Mb (but have 2 x 1Gb sticks to replace that on the way)
Stock cooler on CPU
500W PSU
2 x 80mm case fans
1 x 120mm case fan

And at the time of posting this (which is pretty much idle) I have a CPU temp of 28 Degrees C
 
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Right fellas, made a few changes, a couple as per your suggestions and one of my own, since then my PC would not boot and would freeze upon entering the bios, luckily after resetting the cmos and setting the BIOS to boot from my SATA drive first I am working fine again (without the overclocking of course)

This is what I changed, I put the memory frequency up to 200Mhz, turned my HT Freq down to 3 and also lowered my voltage a little (CPU Voltage control in the BIOS Screenshot)

Any ideas as to what could have caused this? to be honest when it would not boot it scared the hell out of me as I actually tried to reinstall Windows as I was getting NTLDR is missing (only because BIOS had gone back to defaults and put my storage IDE drive before my main SATA)

Any ideas chaps?

Cheers
 
So what do I need to set it too then? 166?

Its just that it was suggested to turn it up to 200, guess a misunderstanding with the terminologies again!!

I had it running fine and stable at those settings, except I then got it running at the equivilent of 3800+ which I think was 2450Ghz with an FSB of 270, so if I set everythink back to what you see in the screenies apart from the increased FSB is there anything that you can see that obviously needs changing?

Thanks a mil.
 
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