Help wanted with Overclocking an AMD 64 4400 x2 on Asus A8N32 -Sli Deluxe in vapo

Taffage

Taffage

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HI,

Just got my new rig up and running, but all the extra Bios settings on this new board are blowing my mind!

So many more options than on my dear old A8V Deluxe.

New Rig specs
Asus A8N32 -Sli Deluxe
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400 (2.2ghz core, 1mb l2)
2GB (4x 512mb) CMX512-4000 Corsair (250mhz)
e-GeForce 7950 GX2 Evga superclocked gfx card
2x 250gb sata HDD in raid 0
Vapochill XE case/cooler

I have had a little play and got it up to 2.750ghz, used 11x250 with ram at 250 too, but was not 100% stable. I increased core v to 1.5 and ddr v to 2.8.

It must be able to do more as my old Amd 64 3500 used to sit at 3ghz running 24/7 stable on my A8V Deluxe.

Your experience and expertise with this MB would be very much appreciated.

Cheers

Taffage
 
Welcome to the forums mate :D


A lot of these X2s are crapping out around 2.8Ghz, i can get mine to 2.8,but it needs 1.65v to get there :eek:

I have mine @ 300x9 using 1.55v now prime stable. Can't you give it a bit more volts since your on a vapo ?


Rob
 
Thanks guys,

I was really more after the various diff bios settings info this MB provides you with.

I know how to set the Voltages, FSB & HTT, but do I need to play arround with the other settings?

The 4 sticks was never a problem in the A8V.

IF I don't need to mess with the other settings then I will throw some volts at it and also give it a go with just 2 sticks.

Hehe, the thing is not even fully installed in the case yet and trying to OC it!
Waiting on some fans to be delivered to help cool the MB heatpipe.

Cheers

Taffage
 
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Put your memory on a divider say 166 or even 133 if you wanna see how far your cpu will go - bandwidth has little performance impact on A64 systems. You could also try relaxing the timings of your memory, this will effect performance but it is more than offset with the increase in CPU speed.

1.5vcore is is not too high either, I had my x2 3800 and my opty 170 upto 1.6 under water with no problems, don't be afraid to increase the cpu vcore aslong as temps are not a problem which they shouldn't be with vapo.
 
Thanks guys,

Got it stable @ 2.75 ghz, using 9.5x280
But I cannot seem to manually set the divider via the bios.
I have the ram set at 166 in bios giving me 229, with a divider of cpu/12.
If I up the fsb, the divider just increases giving me no control.

If someone knows how to set the divider on this board, I would be very gratefull for the help!

Also the cpu core voltage seems strange on this Mb, have set it to 1.565v, but all my diag porgs show it as arround 1.47v. But, if i set the over-voltage cpu core to enabled in bios, it does not seem to matter what setting i use as it goes to arround 1.632v. When set like this it also fluctuates greatly back down to arround 1.58v.

Temps are no problem, sits at arround 1c idle and goes upto 15c when under full load for a while.


Cheers

Taffage
 
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Taffage said:
If someone knows how to set the divider on this board, I would be very gratefull for the help!
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According to the manual, in BIOS under Advanced ->Memory Setting -> Memory Configuration -> Memclock Mode -> change from Auto to Limit (this then gives you options to set between 100MHz and 250MHz).

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Thanks for the advice, but that does not seem to change the divider.

I have been running the cpu at arround 2.7ghz with the mem set to limit as you suggest and have it set to 166. I have tried various settings from 9x300 to 10x250, but I can't seem to control the divider. It seems to vary from cpu/14 to cpu/11.

It is currently at 9x300 with cpu/11 giving me 250mhz.

I do want 2gb of mem, but would it be better running 2x 1gb sticks than 4x 512mb?

Cheers

Taffage
 
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