OC noobie advice?

[Drefsab]

Hi I hgot my new parts today and got my system up and running nicely.

Then I started to looking to overclocking the beast.

So I drop the ram frequency to 100mhz, the cpu multiplyer to 4x, and the HTT multi down to the lowest I could set it. When stepping up the fsb I got a clean post at 280mhz everything seamed to be running ok, but then the pc powered off and when I powered on again it gave me the ram error beeps. Clearing the cmos etc got it all up and working again, I check the temps etc all seamed fine.

Do you think i hit a problem with the cpu or the ram or even the board?

ps.

My specs are

AMD Opteron 165
DFI nF4 Expert
and 2x1GB g.skill pc3200 ZX (matched pair).

Any advice on what went wrong would be apreciated

 

[Drefsab]

definatly had a pci lock on, I actually had it in windows running super pi, the thing that confuses me is the ram error beeps cos with underclocking the ram it shouldnt have been that which caused the crash but Im certainly no expert so I though I would check in you guys ^^

 

[Drefsab]

thanks for the reply, im still definatly in the early stages. I manged to get a stable system with 400mhz with my cpu multi to x4, I stopped there as I didnt think I would get my system any faster that that. Currenly im running at 9x 300mzh for 2.7ghz, The HTT is running at 1200 or I could have gone for 900 but seams stable atm with this. The ram I havent started on but I have it at 225 with timings of 3,3,2,5,7.

I took a screen shot http://www.drefsab.f2s.com/oc.jpg, as you can see its running nicely so I think I have more room for improvment, when I pushed the fsb to 2.8 I had some crash's so I stopped for the night and dropped it down a little.