My first Overclock, is everything fine?

[DarkShadow]

As per thread title:

E6300 @ 1.2v
Asus P5B Deluxe
2GB Crucial 10th Anniversary @ 1.8v

I'm sure this baby can hit very high, just taking it easy as I've never overclocked as much before.

Could someone please explain FSB;DRAM? It was 4:5 before it's now 1:1.

The ram's at 800mhz and 4-4-4-12 timings.

I'd appreciate any comment and so forth before I take it up a notch

 

[furnace]

Looks great.

Although as your RAM is rated at 333Mhz it could be reaching its limits...

Before going any further I'd do a spot of stability testing - Orthos and memtest86

I'm very impressed that you've managed to keep the timings to 4-4-4-12!

If it's all stable, then why not try and reach that magic 3ghz

EDIT:

FSB: DRAM... It's basically how fast your ram is running.

So your FSB is 400Mhz

Your ram is rated at 333Mhz

If your FSB was at 333Mhz, and you had FSB: DRAM set to 1:1, you would be running your RAM at 333Mhz.

If your FSB was at 400Mhz, and you had FSB: DRAM set to 2:1, you would be running your RAM at 200Mhz.

But you're running your FSB at 400Mhz and your FSB: DRAM at 1:1, so your running your 333Mhz RAM at 400Mhz.

...does that explain well enough? I guess you know the relationship between the CPU and FSB with the CPU's multiplier..?

 

[Raikiri]

Crucial tenth anniversary isn't actually 667mhz ram though, I believe they are hand picked D9 Micron chips which are excellent overclockers. Should do at least 450 x 7 maybe more.

 

[DarkShadow]

I've now broke 3150mhz mark I slackened the timings to 5-5-5-15 but I'm really confident that I could get it to run at 4-4-4-12 with a little playing around.

I'm running orthos as we speak!

Furance, thanks but I need a further elaboration please

How do I set the DRAM-FSB Ratio? I can't find it in my bios! The higher the ratio the better?

Crucial tenth anniversary isn't actually 667mhz ram though, I believe they are hand picked D9 Micron chips which are excellent overclockers. Should do at least 450 x 7 maybe more.

Spot on

 

[DarkShadow]

What is the red 'Paging' that keeps flashing in ORTHOS?

 

[furnace]

Uhm... For the sake of a simpler way of explaining.

If the FSB:RAM ratio is 1:1, it means for every 1Mhz the FSB has, the RAM will have 1Mhz too.

If it's at 1:2, it means for every 1Mhz the FSB has, the ram will get 2Mhz.
If it's at 2:1, it means for every 2Mhz the FSB has, the ram will get 1Mhz.
If it's at 4:5, it means for every 4Mhz the FSB has, the ram will get 5Mhz.

So lets say the FSB is at 300Mhz
And the ratio is 4:5
So the ratio says for each 4mhz the fsb gets, the ram gets 5mhz.
There are 75 4Mhz's in 300Mhz
So for each one of those 75 4Mhz's we gotta give the ram 5Mhz
75 x 5Mhz is 375Mhz
So the RAM will get 375Mhz.
And as it's DDR2 ram, that figure gets doubled up - so that's 750Mhz.

I think that's the simplest I can explain without launching into a lecture... lol.

EDIT: Oh, and also 1:1 is supposed to be better, as when the FSB and RAM is running at the same speed things don't end up waiting for each other. Kinda like a tuned nissan skyline that isn't allowed to get too far away from the vauxhall nova trailing behind it - it works out much better if they just both drive a similar speed car Always try to run at 1:1 for streamlined performace

 

[trojan698]

I've now broke 3150mhz mark I slackened the timings to 5-5-5-15 but I'm really confident that I could get it to run at 4-4-4-12 with a little playing around.

I'm running orthos as we speak!

Furance, thanks but I need a further elaboration please

How do I set the DRAM-FSB Ratio? I can't find it in my bios! The higher the ratio the better?


Spot on

Keep it at 1:1 and get those timings tightened! It'll most likely do even better than 4-4-4-12, probs 4-4-4-5 depending on your vdimm. The P5B Deluxe is a great board for OCing, aim for 3.5Ghz (Ram at 1000Mhz 1:1, might need to use 4-4-4-12 timings though)