Overclocking 3700+SD on Asrock Dual Sata II

Mr Men · 17 Jun 2006 at 16:33

Okay I have read the forums for about a week now on overclocking info, and finally thought I would give it a try, so just to make sure I am going the right way here is what I have done so far.

Firstly enabled CPU, PCIE, Async, leaving the PCIE Freq at 100 to lock the clocks on the AGP and PCI.

Put a divider on the memory 133mhz, I need to keep it at 200mhz or less right?

Lowered the HTT multiplier to 4x=800MHz

I then upped the HTT freq to 220Mhz, booted up fine.

Here is some pics of what CPUz shows, am I on the right track? Do I just keep increasing the HTT freq until I get unstable, and then it would be time to increase the volts to the CPU? Not seen a increase in temps at Idle, will do some testing tho to load the CPU if I am on the right track.

A.N.Other · 17 Jun 2006 at 16:42

Absolutely right! Keep going...

The volts on that board don't go very high, but I think there is a volt mod you can do if you want to go further. Google it.

Mr Men · 17 Jun 2006 at 16:44

Sweet, will keep going then, only thing I am not too sure about is the HTT multiplier, when would I have to lower it even further?

A.N.Other · 17 Jun 2006 at 17:36

FSB x HT Multi <= 1000

At stock, 200 x 5 = 1000. So, you can go to FSB 250 (when with a 4x multi, it reaches 1000 again) before you need to go to 3x.

Mr Men · 17 Jun 2006 at 18:11

Ah right got it now, thanks mate

Have my HTT at 250 now giving me 2.7 on the CPU, booting fine, temps are about 40 after 30 mins of prime, will probably run it at this for a while make sure its stable enough, or should I push it more?

My memory is on 166mhz divider and is 196MHz, is this fine?

Cyber-Mav · 18 Jun 2006 at 02:48

prime not good to test cpu. use snm.

BigAndy · 18 Jun 2006 at 03:27

Mr Men said:
My memory is on 166mhz divider and is 196MHz, is this fine?

What kind of memory you using?

BigAndy · 18 Jun 2006 at 03:35

Mr Men said:
Sweet, will keep going then, only thing I am not too sure about is the HTT multiplier, when would I have to lower it even further?

You can lower HTT multiplayer with no worries because it's has no impact on performance

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A.N.Other · 18 Jun 2006 at 09:20

Those temps are good for this weather, so no problems there. The RAM is fine at the moment - depending on what RAM you have, you can probably go to about 210-220 RAM speed (look in the memory tab of CPUZ for this) without needing to lower the divider.

So, you can go for some more if you want to.

Mr Men · 18 Jun 2006 at 12:00

My memory is just old PC3200 stuff from Crucial, so probably not the best of timings and for overclocking, I will be looking to upgrade it soon tho to 2gb so will get something more overclocking friendly.

Thanks for the help guys, I got the CPU to 2.7 on stock volts, not really done any stress testing other than a 2 hour session on BF2 which worked fine and no problems in normal use either, so will stick with this for a while and then maybe think about upping the volts to the CPU for more, but I am quite happy with a 25% increase

Dark_Angel · 18 Jun 2006 at 12:52

Mr Men said:
My memory is just old PC3200 stuff from Crucial, so probably not the best of timings and for overclocking, I will be looking to upgrade it soon tho to 2gb so will get something more overclocking friendly.

Thanks for the help guys, I got the CPU to 2.7 on stock volts, not really done any stress testing other than a 2 hour session on BF2 which worked fine and no problems in normal use either, so will stick with this for a while and then maybe think about upping the volts to the CPU for more, but I am quite happy with a 25% increase

I looked thru your CPUID shots, and notice you still have pretty tight timings on the ram.... so your ram speed wont make as much difference... still some, but not as much

sablabra · 18 Jun 2006 at 13:02

The Vmod is pretty easy if you want to up the volts to 1.55

Shrapnel · 20 Jun 2006 at 13:33

Cyber-Mav said:
prime not good to test cpu. use snm.

I must have been out of the Overclocking scene for a while. What is snm, and which isn't Prime a good cpu test? (Sorry for *** highjack). I've got a 3700+ coming, with Asus A8N to play about with.

What do 'most people' get on normal cooling with these?

Cheers.

TaKeN · 20 Jun 2006 at 14:07

The average overclock on these chips is 2.7 - 2.8

BigAndy · 20 Jun 2006 at 14:13

Shrapnel said:
What do 'most people' get on normal cooling with these?

Cheers.

Max i got out with my AIR cooling was 3014MHz

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Cheers

P.S. But avarege is 2.7-2.8GHz i would say as well.

Shrapnel · 21 Jun 2006 at 08:11

Cyber-Mav said:
prime not good to test cpu. use snm.

Why isn't prime 95 conidered good anymore? And where can I get snm from?

Cheers.

Deception · 21 Jun 2006 at 08:39

Shrapnel said:
Why isn't prime 95 conidered good anymore? And where can I get snm from?

Cheers.

I fount this thread helpful, when making sure my OC was stable and it also has a link for S&M for you.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17561094

grahamjenks · 21 Jun 2006 at 10:37

BigAndy said:
Max i got out with my AIR cooling was 3014MHz .

Cheers

P.S. But avarege is 2.7-2.8GHz i would say as well.

What air cooling was that using (case and hsf)? Thinking of getting the combo the OP has would be interesting to know whats the decent setup to go with my sonata II case (thinking freezer 64 pro at the mo).

Mr Men · 21 Jun 2006 at 11:15

grahamjenks said:
What air cooling was that using (case and hsf)? Thinking of getting the combo the OP has would be interesting to know whats the decent setup to go with my sonata II case (thinking freezer 64 pro at the mo).

Well mine is in the Sonata II case with an Artic Cooler freezer 64 pro HS, temps at idle around 32, at load 41 max. I have installed the optional 120mm case fan in front of the HDD bays though which might be helping. I am sure my chip could go futher if I had more volts from the mobo.

BigAndy · 21 Jun 2006 at 11:33

grahamjenks said:
What air cooling was that using (case and hsf)? Thinking of getting the combo the OP has would be interesting to know whats the decent setup to go with my sonata II case (thinking freezer 64 pro at the mo).

Case is Silverstone Temjin TJ05 and Gigabyte G-Power Pro cooler.

Cheers