Help me get more from my X2 3800

Curio

Curio

Curio

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I can only get my X2 3800 up to 2.2GHz - any higher and it fails Prime almost immediately. I've tried raising the vcore, the RAM voltage, running the RAM at 667 instead of 800, loosened the timings, changed the HT speed to 4x.....temps look OK. I'm not sure what else to try. I thought it would be better when I dumped my old Biostar board for a Gigabyte (I didn't swap purely for OCing reasons...) but still no joy. Have I just got a lousy clocker?
 
Sorry, I'm not to sharp when it comes to OCing CPU's :)

If I lower the multi then surely I'll have to increase the FSB speed to compensate? I can't raise the multi, so increasing the FSB is the only way to go.
 
Bah, I give up. I've tried everything you guys have suggested and nothing works :( Most of the time it won't even POST, yet alone make it into Windows for testing. Just for the record, here are the complete specs...

GIGABYTE GA-M57SLI-S4 Socket AM2 NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI AMD Mobo
AMD X2 3800 CPU (the original, not the low energy version)
Stock heatsink/fan + AS ceramique
2GB g.Skill DDRII800 5-5-5-15
XFX GeForce 7900GS 600M PCI-E
X-FI Xreme music
X-Clio 460W stablepower PSU
Seagate 80GB IDE hard drive
WinXP SP2

Thanks for all the help btw :)
 
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