my first oc'ing attempt failure

Ish · 28 Feb 2007 at 10:56

While I wait for my E4300 etc to arrive I thought I would have my first attept at oc'ing with the current setup I have which is:-

Athlon64 3000 cpu (newcastle s754)
2 x 512mb Pc3200 DDr400 Corsair value ram
ECS 755-A2 mobo

I know this isn't exactly oc'ing gear but I thought i'd give it a go to try and get some practice in.

I lowered the H.T by 1 setting which took it from 800 to 600. I increased the cpu speed from 200 to 205 and rebooted.

it wouldn't go past the post screen lol!

Have I done something wrong or is this system just not up to being slightly oc'd?

esoteric · 28 Feb 2007 at 12:10

I got my old 754 rig to 2.6 from 2.4, which isnt to special since it was just a flat FSB increase, not exactly hard, but couldnt get further due to inexperiance, anyway, for you getting stonewalled at just a 5Mhz increase even with the HT set to 4 is kinda odd to me, I can only think your RAM is causing it, try a lower frequency, and it seems crazy to me you would have to pump more volts into the CPU to get a 5Mhz increase

but dont play with that untill someone who is better then me at O/C makes a reply.

feriso · 28 Feb 2007 at 13:58

Probably your mobo as ECS are carp really.

aztechnology · 28 Feb 2007 at 18:56

i seems unlilkey that it's anything but the mother board. I got my 754 3200 clawhammer 17% faster (to 235 i think) but it took a lot of messing about. That was on a dfi250 GB

decto · 28 Feb 2007 at 21:14

Ish said:
While I wait for my E4300 etc to arrive I thought I would have my first attept at oc'ing with the current setup I have which is:-

Athlon64 3000 cpu (newcastle s754)
2 x 512mb Pc3200 DDr400 Corsair value ram
ECS 755-A2 mobo

I know this isn't exactly oc'ing gear but I thought i'd give it a go to try and get some practice in.

I lowered the H.T by 1 setting which took it from 800 to 600. I increased the cpu speed from 200 to 205 and rebooted.

it wouldn't go past the post screen lol!

Have I done something wrong or is this system just not up to being slightly oc'd?

Try slowing the memory down to PC2700 speed (333) before you OC, or perhaps just backing the timings off a little might help.

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