not sure if the cpu is overclocked properly

spacegrass · 13 Jun 2006 at 15:23

Hi, Im relatively new to overclocking, and using the bios I have managed to overclock my cpu from the stock speed of 2000mhz to its current setting of 2450mhz.

Im not sure if this has been done properly, heres what my cpuz looks like;

does this look like it has been done right? It passed one test of prime95's blend torture mode and I havent experienced any instability.

I need some reassurance

Mikey1280 · 13 Jun 2006 at 15:57

Have you fiddled with dividers, HTT/LDT multi?

A.N.Other · 13 Jun 2006 at 15:58

Looks OK at a glance. Can you put up a shot of the memory tab as well?

fatty1 · 13 Jun 2006 at 16:31

Have you run prime95 or any other benchmark program on it yet

spacegrass · 13 Jun 2006 at 16:39

here's the memory tab as requested.

as for dividers, I was told to change the memory divider to 166 which I did in the bios.

spacegrass · 13 Jun 2006 at 16:45

on occasion the system has locked up for no apparent reason. This seems to occur when the cd or dvd drives are attempting to access data.

my drives are both set on cable select since I only use one IDE cable, does it work to set one on master and the other on slave using the one cable? And is setting drives on cable select a known cause of computers locking up?

Mikey1280 · 13 Jun 2006 at 17:14

Have you reduced the HTT/LDT multi? HAve you run prime or snm?

lay-z-boy · 13 Jun 2006 at 17:18

are you s&m stable?

also, i have my drives on independant cables, i heard its faster for copying over and using both drives at the same time.

stigggeh · 13 Jun 2006 at 17:27

i was always told that 2T command kills performance too, maybe worth looking at changing to 1T if possible.

and is there are reason why your running your memory in single channel too (this also kills perfromance)

mc_bob · 13 Jun 2006 at 17:27

Why don't you whack it on 1T.
Should knock a couple of seconds off you 1M PI time and increase speeds even in games.

MC_Bob

lay-z-boy · 13 Jun 2006 at 17:27

it makes very little diff, but some people seem to have heart attacks over it.

james.miller · 13 Jun 2006 at 17:29

no, it's not right. you haven't pushed it nearly far enough!

stigggeh · 13 Jun 2006 at 17:29

lay-z-boy said:
it makes very little diff, but some people seem to have heart attacks over it.

single channel memory is killing performance surely ?

mc_bob · 13 Jun 2006 at 17:30

lay-z-boy said:
it makes very little diff, but some people seem to have heart attacks over it.

I think it was Jokester who showed me some results he done. Ask him for them.
They increased FPS a lot. Memory is made to go in 1T so why not. Its not even overclocking yet you dismiss it like theres no point :confused:

MC_Bob

A.N.Other · 13 Jun 2006 at 17:30

Well he might not be able to do 1T if he was 4 x 512Mb sticks.

lay-z-boy · 13 Jun 2006 at 17:36

@ DFI street

Massive Isnt it?
I didnt say dont run 1t, i said it doesnt make a huge impact.

single channel memory is killing performance surely ?

a64's arnt memory bandwidth hungry like netburst baised cores, there was a very small gain in 754-939 (single to dual) same goes for ddr2, thanks to the latencys its worse.

k8's dont care much for bandwidth, tight timmings make more of an impact.

spacegrass · 13 Jun 2006 at 17:38

ok youre gonna have to explain to how to change to 1t also the only multipler I could find in my bios was something called Hammer FID control

Should I try rasing this value? Its currently set to auto

spacegrass · 13 Jun 2006 at 17:39

I have one stick of one gig ram and two sticks of 512 ram

I assume I can run those two 512's in dual channel mode? How would I go about doing that?

james.miller · 13 Jun 2006 at 17:39

lay-z-boy said:
@ DFI street

Massive Isnt it?

games, lay-z-boy. its one hell of a difference between games and benchmarks.

lay-z-boy · 13 Jun 2006 at 17:40

what mobo, mate?

*edit* tried it myself, theres a very small change in results.

And get back on topic already, the guy needs help.