I CAN'T OVERCLOCK.....Please HELP!

[Modjo]

Hi all. Have posted this once before but have been trying and trying and can't seem to get anything more than 200MHz o/c (without much alteration in bios) on my newly aquired 5200+. Any more than 200MHz and it will either fail to post or crash during vist boot. My old 939 3800+ managed a really decent o/c of 2600 on air. (+600 MHz) and ran as stable as anything.
I have gone down the AM2 road and regretting it already! (wanted e6750 but couldn't afford it!) So i'm stuck with a 5200+ (bought for the 2Gb L2 cache) , ALiveNF5-eSATA2+ motherboard and Geil DDR2-667 (333) 4-4-4-12 (I think). My old board overclocked like stink (A8R-MVP) but I'm not so sure about this one. My CPU multiplier has max @ x13 and vcore max @ 1.35. It has a 1000MHz FSB tho.




By looking at cpuz can anyone see what i'm doing wrong? Any advice is welcomed

 

[uv]

never heard of the mobo manufacturer :/

1.35 max vcore is naff all, I doubt you'll get anywhere without more vcore!
And 1000 fsb? Do you mean HTT?
Try switching CPC off whilst overclocking - you can try 1T when you know your CPU oc is stable

Does the mobo have any option to alter chipset voltages?
Can you show us what options you get on that mobo?

uv

 

[Cob]

I'm not sure how well the X2 5200+'s clock, but 2.86ghz may well be your chips limit without more vcore.

Drop the multiplier to x10 to check that you can get over the 220mhz BUS Speed.

 

[Vir]

Such a shame you didn't get a E21x0 series with a low budget

Anyway, try upping the vcore a bit more. There is a limit where you just have to give it a bit more vcore for it to go higher. Just watch the temps and don't go to far with it.

 

[Wiggins]

You have an Asrock Motherboard and unfortunately they are renowned for being budget boards and not very good for overclocking.

It may well be the Motherboard that is holding you back

 

[Modjo]

You have an Asrock Motherboard and unfortunately they are renowned for being budget boards and not very good for overclocking.

It may well be the Motherboard that is holding you back

I agree. Had a feeling that may be the case..... just written down the settings in my bios..big breath...here goes...

AM2 boost - disabled
overclock mode - cpu, pcie, async
cpu freq - 220
pcie freq - 100
boot failure - enabled
pcu/ldt spread spectrum - disabled
pcie - dis
sata - dis
cool'n'quit - dis
secure virtual machine - enabled
multiplier/voltage change - manual
processor freq - x13.0 2600
processor voltage - 1.350 (max on mobo)
mem clock - 333 ddr667
flexibility option - enabled
ma timing - 2T
bank interleaving - auto
cpu NB link speed - 600 mhz
cpu NB link width - 16bit


more or less what i've seen before on my last mobo apart from the spread spectrum options, tho have read up them and know that they need to be disabled.