Overclocking an opt144 with stock hsf

[Over Clocker]

Hi guys,

I'm testing out a CPU for a friend on my board, and he want's to know if its a good clocker or not.

I have an Asus A8N 32 SLi Deluxe, and will running his opteron 144 and 2gig Mushkin ram in it, or my own G-Skill 2gig ram. Both are PC4000.

Could some kind person please give me the bios settings to try when going for the overclock? I've been out of overclocking for years now some will need assistance!

Thanks,

Mal

 

[helpimcrap]

this is rough but to find out the max CPU speed you need to stick the memory on the lowest divider poss so the memory runs slow (takes it out of the equation then).

set the HTT to x3 to take that out of the equation... unless you manage to get over 333fsb! in which case drop it to x2.

then all you do is keep upping the FSB 10mhz at a time until it wont load windows. then knock the vcore voltage up one notch and retry... if it boots into windows then keep upping fsb until it doesnt.

keep doing this until you either hit 1.65v (safe limit on air!) or seeing as you are using the stock HSF i'd say 1.55 due to heat. keep an eye on your temps... once it goes above 50c idle i'd stop there i think.

once you reach a limit where increasing the vcore by 2 or 3 notches does nothing to help you get into windows then thats the limit of the chip.

before you try anything though... make sure you know how to reset the bios. this is THE most important bit of overclocking. its ok getting technical but if it goes wrong you need to know how to get out of it.