Overclocking a socket 939 athlon 3500+?

Energize · 6 May 2007 at 23:08

I need to know how to go about overclocking my venice 3500+ after my shocking 3d mark and pc mark scores of 3741 and 3729. Now my memory is in a state at the moment, 2x 256Mb ddr400 and 1x 512mb ddr333 sticks, and the cpus ht bus is running at 800mhz instead of 1000mhz for some reason, all of which may account for such a bad score

SkeeterUK · 7 May 2007 at 02:09

Well you dont need to oc to fix the HTT part. Just go to your bios find htt and set to 5x or it might be 1000. Check your motherboard manual if you dont know where its located.

Energize · 7 May 2007 at 15:57

Well I've set the memory from auto to 200mhz so now it's running at ddr400, but I couldn't find a htt multiplier speed. There was an option called "cpu to nb" and "nb to sb" speed that had the values, 200, 400, 600, 800 and 1000 would that be it?

The manual is here http://download.asrock.com/manual/939Dual-SATA2.pdf

SkeeterUK · 7 May 2007 at 17:04

http://www.ocworkbench.com/ocwbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=30;t=005271;p=0

Where do I set the HTT multiplier?
Goto “Advanced” menu >> “Chipset Configuration”
You’ll find CPU-NB Link Speed, set
1000MHz = 5X
800MHz = 4X
600MHz = 3X
400MHz = 2X
200MHz = 1X

I think you also set nb to sb to 1000 as well. Just read the faq for more advice.

Energize · 7 May 2007 at 18:06

Thanks thats a great faq.

I assume that overclocking alone can't damage your hardware, only when you increase the voltage?

DoubleCheese · 8 May 2007 at 00:33

It can damage some hardware as you are running it out of spec.Generally things get hotter the faster they run, so good cooling is essential right from the start and you often don't have to increase voltages to start with.You can OC on std volts.
If I remember back to NF2 days Hard drives used to get corrupted when and OC went wrong and one had to re-install to get things going again.