Overclocking and PCIE Lock

marka87uk · 25 Jan 2006 at 22:11

OK, been a while since I was here, so hi again!

Spec - 144 Opty, 2Gb GeIL RAM, Epox 9NPA+

Been having problems for weeks and weeks with BSOD's etc - the CPU was 'only' at 2.3Ghz and I locked the RAM to 166Mhz. The other day I decided I'd had enough (even though I thought the RAM was at fault) and lowered the CPU to 2.2Ghz. Result - hardly any BSOD's - 1 every few days - which is a vast improvement.

I just read another thread which prompted me to think 'is my PCIE locked? could that be the cause?' Looked in the BIOS and I see it's currrently locked to 100Mhz.

Should I lower that? Any other ideas? I really should use the Opty to it's full potential and at the moment I can't!

Defcon5 · 25 Jan 2006 at 22:45

Leave it at 100.

Wha are the rest of your settings (inc volts)

marka87uk · 25 Jan 2006 at 23:00

All stock. Hmm might be the RAM after all then.

Ateapotist · 26 Jan 2006 at 00:15

212Mhz on the RAM does seem a little poor, even for value RAM.

What happens if you knock it back to 133 then up the FSB further?

I assume you've remembered to lower your HTT multiplyer to 3?

marka87uk · 26 Jan 2006 at 00:21

I assume you've remembered to lower your HTT multiplyer to 3?

I'm not too sure, I know at the moment it's running at 245Mhz x 9 = 2205Mhz.

Ateapotist · 26 Jan 2006 at 00:36

your HTT speed thingy bob oujey wotsit has to be kept below 1000, so whatever your CPU frequency is multiplyed by your 'CPU clock ratio' needs to be less than 1000. So any overclock over 250Mhz needs it to be set at 3.

marka87uk · 26 Jan 2006 at 01:01

Oh! Thanks I'll give it a go 2moro and post my findings!

Defcon5 · 26 Jan 2006 at 11:20

What on earth is real time turbo mode?

littlevic · 28 Jan 2006 at 11:19

I want to know what turbo mode is 2.

GAMEfreak · 28 Jan 2006 at 17:37

i think its like adapative overclocking, where it will overclock when doing cpu intensive tasks. just a guess though.