First overclock in 3 years!

SB118 · 25 Sep 2008 at 17:38

After runningmy a64 3000 since they were new (on the old socket format, so i couldn't upgrade if i wanted to!) i've got hold of the kids old celly 2.8 machine with some hideous Asrock mobo, it was totally incapable of playing TF2 :eek:

things needed a sort out so i chucked a few quid at the MM and picked up an E4400 and 2 gig of corsair 6400 (i have no idea what the newer memory speed mean btw!)

So far so good, considering this Asrock board doesn't have any voltage tweaks. I've seen others with the bus speed pushed up to 1333, but mine won't boot any faster than what i've got now. Just running SP2004 for a couple hours to see if it will fall over under use.

Pretty sure i've made a booboo on the ram settings though, dunno what it is though

edit, 90 minutes of small fft sp2004 gives me temps of 58/60, so the cooling is fine (think it's a stock job).

Things haven't been this easy since the AXIA!

1kiwi · 25 Sep 2008 at 20:54

Can you lower the multiplier as you are seriously underclocking your ram.

SB118 · 25 Sep 2008 at 23:14

No adjustments on the mobo. I've swapped in a stronger psu now though, time to see if the stronger levels will help.

SB118 · 26 Sep 2008 at 16:37

Right, i've tried playing with this mobo and i can't seem to get the mem speed up.

Are these speeds right? Everything is set to default/auto.

I can see myself buying another mobo soon, then the wife will kick off that i've bought an entire new machine in the last week

SB118 · 24 Nov 2009 at 15:42

Slight necro-bump here

Changed the board to a p5b-deluxe and all it took was upping the fsb to 300 and it's running happily at 3010mhz

Happy chappy, but, when i view it in cpuz the multiplier jumps between 6 & 10 meaning the speed jumps between 1800 and 3000. Is this normal?

Cheers

xGaffner · 24 Nov 2009 at 20:37

SB118 said:
Slight necro-bump here

Changed the board to a p5b-deluxe and all it took was upping the fsb to 300 and it's running happily at 3010mhz

Happy chappy, but, when i view it in cpuz the multiplier jumps between 6 & 10 meaning the speed jumps between 1800 and 3000. Is this normal?

Cheers

Yes that's Intel Speedstep, it underclocks your processor when not in an intensive program to minimize power consumption. As soon as you do something that will stress it (play a game) it will jump back to 3GHz itself.