Opty 165 question..

[psykix]

Opty 165 on A8N32 Deluxe - dunno what RAM, all I know is it's PC3200 DDR400 CAS3.

Question is - all I changed was the FSB to 300, multi is 9x, and set the RAM to 166. Is this correct? CPU voltage is 1.45v - I didn't change this, so M/B must have or that's standard..

Temps seem a bit high under load - 59/60C and I'm using an Arctic Cooling Pro 64.

Is this all correct do you think?

 

[psykix]

Thanks for the reply - yes I'm running 2700Mhz. I just went straight to that speed, haven't tried any higher - I have read umpteen posts on here - I always lurk before posting, but the more I read, the more confused I get!

I wasn't sure if the ram was set to the correct speed or not - on POST it says 333Mhz..

 

[psykix]

Perfect, thanks for that prog!

Should I drop my cpu voltage down to 1.35v? That's stock voltage for Opty isn't it?

Just want to figure how to get my temps down a bit now!

 

[psykix]

Ok, I'm confused!

If I drop my ram to 133Mhz, then on POST it reports DRAM Clocking = 266Mhz, but then just goes into standby. If I set it to 166Mhz, then POST reports DRAM Clocking = 333Mhz, and all is fine??? This is with 300*9 btw.

Surely it should be closer to 290Mhz * 2 = 380Mhz?

With everything as standard, POST reports DRAM Clocking = 400Mhz i.e. DDR400.

I'm baffled!!

 

[psykix]

Ok, I set the memory to Auto in the BIOS, and CPU-Z now reports 290Mhz.

So, I'm running 2.7Ghz on 1.35v, and all seems fine.

Cheers!

 

[psykix]

I mean 190Mhz!!!

 

[psykix]

It didn't seem to want to run at 311*9, I may try again though...

 

[psykix]

Quick update :-

Now running 2.8Ghz (311*9) on 1.35v.

Temps are 47/49 idle though!

 

[psykix]

I had to peg it back to 300*9 at 1.4v - was too unstable at 311*9.

CPU-Z reports mem speed as 192.90Mhz, FSBRAM CPU/14

That seems correct, as A64 MemFreq gives a 192.857143Mhz mem freq with those settings. Don't suppose there's any way to eek the extra 8Mhz out of the RAM?