Need good O/C help

Soldato
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I've dabbled with O/C in the past rather unsuccesfully, I only got my old AMD 3.4 to 2.6GHz (2.4stock) 217 FSB x12 on a Asus K8NE-Deluxe mobo, I did nothing with CPU volts (didnt have the balls) and did nothing to my 1Gb Crucial Ballistix DDR4000 (because I didnt know I had to).

My new rig is in my sig, I have a 525W PSU, and this time around im gunna admit im crap at O/C and dont fully know how it should be done, and im in need of good help to get me going properly.

Thanks in advance for the incoming help and O/C advice/lessons.
 
Zefan said:
You 'll need to set your RAM on a divider, which sets your ram to run at a lower speed than your FSB. Set it to the lowest divider you can to rule out your RAM when an overclock becomes unstable.

What happens when I put the divider back to normal when I find a stable o/c?

You'll also need to set your motherboard multiplier (Known as HT multi if I recall) to 3. That way you can whack your fsb up to 333mhz without having to worry about your motherboard.

Do I put this to normal after ive found a stable o/c?, I might have clocked further then the maximum HT allows.

Thanks for the help, with this explanation I can see where I went wrong when trying to o/c my old rig.

What can you do about RAM timings Zefan? is that something I should do after I find the best FSB?. CPU-Z shows that its running at 736Mhz not the 800MHz I expected, ive set the voltage to 2.1v in BIOS which is GeiL's recommended, and the timings displayed dont look right either in CPU-Z, if I copy this over correctly then CPU-Z says CAS 5-5-5-18, but as stock I think it should be doing CAS 4-4-4-12 http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-058-GL&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=813 if something really is wrong, how do I go about setting it right?
 
I remember finding something in my old BIOS which looked like the ram divider, but I cant find it in this new BIOS, I have a Memory frequency, which I can change to 200, 400, 667 and 800, is this the same thing? and jus to check before I change it does the HT run from the CPU to NB? as its the only thing I could find in BIOS.
 
Yeh, the BIOS is really different to what im used to looking at, as for the ram, it displays as double, so 200Mhz on the ram is as low as I can go, im pretty sure thats how it worked out in a thread in the Memory section.
 
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