Is this overclock alright?

Runningkid · 18 Mar 2006 at 11:55

i kno i could do better, but i am still using stock hsf, but does my ram timing look alright?

anotehr thing, does overclocking shortens your CPU life span?

ichabod crane · 18 Mar 2006 at 11:58

no that is good and as long as its stable then no problems

... my 3700 wont go above 2.7 and is a bit wobbly at that too so i put it at 2.6 with no memory divider and its rocking

Runningkid · 18 Mar 2006 at 12:02

ok cool, i m still below 1.5V is taht good?

p4radox · 18 Mar 2006 at 12:05

Looks good. Have you tested stability with Prime95? What are the specs of your mobo and RAM?

Runningkid · 18 Mar 2006 at 12:52

ran prime95 for an hour (blend) .

Mobo = Winfast 6150K8MA
RAM =1gb Hynix PC3200

ichabod crane · 18 Mar 2006 at 12:57

Runningkid said:
ok cool, i m still below 1.5V is taht good?

yeh that is good im on about 1.5 exactly i think but im on water so i can push some more volts through if needed its a good clock if stable

helpimcrap · 18 Mar 2006 at 13:04

try running prime for up to 6hrs if you can. ive had chips fail prime after a couple of hours.

Runningkid · 18 Mar 2006 at 13:08

Defcon5 · 18 Mar 2006 at 21:01

Have you tried the ram at cas2? And are you running 1 stick as its in single channel mode

Runningkid · 19 Mar 2006 at 11:44

yea i am running single chanel, er... soz for bring noob but how i change it?

Defcon5 · 19 Mar 2006 at 11:54

Depends if you have 1 stick you cant.

Runningkid · 19 Mar 2006 at 16:03

oh ... whys that?

p4radox · 19 Mar 2006 at 16:05

Runningkid said:
oh ... whys that?

Dual channel memory, as the name kind of implies, requires 2 sticks of RAM

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If you have 2, they need to be identical. If they are, then there'll be a setting in BIOS to change it.

Defcon5 · 19 Mar 2006 at 17:02

I think dual channel gives up to a 20% improvement as it doubles the bandwith available between the memory controller and ram

bbreezeuk · 19 Mar 2006 at 22:19

i got my 3700SD running at 2.8ghz without even changing voltage or mem timings i guess i must have a good one

p4radox · 19 Mar 2006 at 22:50

bbreezeuk said:
i got my 3700SD running at 2.8ghz without even changing voltage or mem timings i guess i must have a good one

Prime stable? That's pretty damn good!

bbreezeuk · 19 Mar 2006 at 22:55

i dont run prime or any of that crap if it runs anytask in windows its stable enough for me, i had it at 2.9 but when it booted into windows it would reset every time this is all at stock volts mind, do u recon i could get more out of it if i raised the voltage its on 1.425 atm
p.s is it a could idea to get prime if so where do i get it

p4radox · 19 Mar 2006 at 23:11

bbreezeuk said:
i dont run prime or any of that crap if it runs anytask in windows its stable enough for me, i had it at 2.9 but when it booted into windows it would reset every time this is all at stock volts mind, do u recon i could get more out of it if i raised the voltage its on 1.425 atm
p.s is it a could idea to get prime if so where do i get it

I'd definitely look towards testing it with Prime. You can't really call it stable until you've Primed it for a good few hours with no errors. My guess is it'll fail first time

Explicit · 19 Mar 2006 at 23:47

bbreezeuk said:
i got my 3700SD running at 2.8ghz without even changing voltage or mem timings i guess i must have a good one

bbreezeuk said:
i dont run prime or any of that crap if it runs anytask in windows its stable enough for me, i had it at 2.9 but when it booted into windows it would reset every time this is all at stock volts mind, do u recon i could get more out of it if i raised the voltage its on 1.425 atm
p.s is it a could idea to get prime if so where do i get it

I wouldn't call that stable until it has been tested. Try running SuperPI @32M & Prime for 24 hours. Also use memtest for testing your ram. If all of the above pass, then congratulations, you have a great overclock!!!

stvmor · 20 Mar 2006 at 03:14

Runningkid said:
i kno i could do better, but i am still using stock hsf, but does my ram timing look alright?

anotehr thing, does overclocking shortens your CPU life span?

Nice, mine looks similar but at 250 x 11 my memory runs at 250Mhz so there may be some more there?