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Complete noob to ocing

Dwbreeze1982

Dwbreeze1982

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As title really

i am a complete new person to the world of overclocking, i have an amd x2 3800 and i have managed to overclock it to 2.4 ghz but i have seen in a lot of threads that people overclock there ram as well which i take it helps stable your overclock and gives you bettre performance but how do i do this and how do i now if my ram is good at overclocking to help.

The ram in question is corsair value select. Each one of my chips is 1 gb pc3200 currently running at 200mhz .

here i a cpuz of my complete system

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Thanks In Advance

D Breeze :confused:
 
Your ram is currently running at 160mhz, if you can tweak things in such a way that its closer to 200mhz that would be a good start.
First see if theres a better divider that brings it closer to 200mhz. I'm also an a8n32 sli deluxe owner and the divider is a bit of a pain. I think the memory speed increases by half of what you add to the cpu fsb.

You've added 40mhz, so that suggests an extra 20mhz ram speed. That tells me you probably have the ram speed set to 133. Its an automatic divider on this board, not always that accurate, it just goes for a divider that gets it as close to the selected speed as possible.

If you set it to 166, 166 + 20 = 186. So thats still under 200mhz. So try changing your ram speed up from 133 to 166. This won't affect anything but your ram. Then check it in cpuz and we'll go from there.
 
wow that was confusing , i hope i have done the right thing, i changed the ram limet from 166 to 185, my new cpuz is



is that not running to fast now and will it damage my ram

there were so many settings in the bios that it was confusing

Joe please advise :eek:
 
Right, thats now running overclocked. The bios is ok once you get used to it, but its a bit of a pita. For example, all the memory settings are under the cpu tab, and there are no cpu settings at all under the cpu settings tab. Good old asus.

So it was set to 166 before and you upped it to 183? If so my maths/logic is wrong.

You need to go and download memtest, google it and download it and pop it onto a cd, then boot from the cd. Might be an idea to put the memory speed back down a bit in the mean time. It will test your memory, let it run one loop and see if it gets any errors.

Personally i've never got round to overclocking my memory, but i believe you just raise the voltage and raise the speed until the temperature or voltage gets too high. Can anyone confirm this, and is overclocking value memory a good idea?
 
i have lowered back to 166 and the momery is now running at 199.99mhz on cpuz , i will download memtest and run it but unfortunalty my xp format is screwed ( nothing will install )and i am waiting until i get my lian li case on monday/tuesday before i reformat and set everything up properly. So i will let you now tuesday / wednesdasy and let you know, thanks for the help so far.

By the way whats the program you use to see if your overclock is stable ?

Any links would be helpful
 
Memtest to check the ram overclock. For the cpu overclock, sp2004. Google for both, very easy to find.
You'll need to run two copies or sp2004, one for each core.

Which Lian-li are you getting?
 
Ahh just wondered if you were getting the a10, still can't decide if i should get one.

I prefer black but its a personal preference thing, have a look at some pics of one in each colour and see which you prefer.
 
Dwbreeze1982 said:
the a10 is a nice case but it is not big enough for what i want in my case also i like the reverse atx layout.
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Doesn't the a8n 32 sli deluxe overheat in an upside down atx case? This is the main reason i haven't looked at upside down atx cases. I thought the heatpipes on this board only work when its the right way up because they aren't wicked or something...
 
dont know, thanks for bringing to my attention, my brother has a gigabyte intel board with heat pipes and that is in a reverse atx case and that is fine and doesnt seem to overheat :eek:
 
Dwbreeze1982 said:
dont know, thanks for bringing to my attention, my brother has a gigabyte intel board with heat pipes and that is in a reverse atx case and that is fine and doesnt seem to overheat :eek:
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I think its specific to asus. Google it or check the asus forums. Perhaps someone on here can confirm it?
People have used this board with upside down atx cases i think but they may have had to replace the chipset cooler. I'll see if i can find any more info for you.
 
cheers joe for your help, i have managed to get my temps stable and the ram running at 2oomhz. boots abit quicker but afteralll it is only value ram. :)
 
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