Hi all
Please be patient with me, I have tried to work this out on my own but want to check I am right (or wrong) before carrying on any further.
Spec is as sig. Thought I would start this thread with my hope of my overclock. I am hoping to be able to get an fsb of 250, with ram of x5.33=1332Mhz and cpu multiplier x16 = 4ghz. If not then close to those figures.
I have had 200fsb x cpu 18.5 = 3.7Ghz, but I wanted to increase fsb. Reduced multiplier down to x 10 and increase fsb slowly up, will run prime stable for 2.5 hours on 240 fsb on stock voltage. At 245 fsb though prime fails within about 15 minutes, so the guide says to increase voltage, but I want to check which one before I do increase it.
Now here is a (rubbish, sorry) photo of my bios voltage controls.
Now I assume it is going to be the NB voltage to increase, which could be
NB Voltage Control
NB/PCIe/PLL Voltage Control
CPU NB VID Control
From reading around it seems I will have to increase both NB Voltage and CPU NB Voltage to help with stability. It seems the NB Voltage is the actual Northbridge but different answers to what the CPU ND VID is.
Also will I need to increase the NB/PCIe/PLL Voltage Control at all? if it changes pci voltage then I shouldn't think so.
Second voltage questions are regards to cpu voltage. When I had stable 240 fsb I started to increase the multiplier back up but it became unstable again. I assume here this is when you start increasing the cpu voltage? or would it be best to increase the nb voltage some too?
Again though is the cpu voltage:
CPU Voltage control
CPU PLL Voltage control
Again searching around it seems to be the CPU Voltage control. I could find a decent (or understandable) explaination to what CPU PLL is though.
From reading on here specifically it semes people get their systems stable then slowly start decreasing the voltages again to see if it can remain stable on lower volts. Which suggests to me that during the overclocking process, the volts are increased too high for whats needed.
Sorry for the all the questions but thought I would get them all out of the way in one go. I think I have provided everything I need to, but if you want anymore info let me know.
Thank you to anyone that wades through all this to answer my questions.
Greboth.
Edit: Ok, don't know why imageshack has rotated my image.
Please be patient with me, I have tried to work this out on my own but want to check I am right (or wrong) before carrying on any further.
Spec is as sig. Thought I would start this thread with my hope of my overclock. I am hoping to be able to get an fsb of 250, with ram of x5.33=1332Mhz and cpu multiplier x16 = 4ghz. If not then close to those figures.
I have had 200fsb x cpu 18.5 = 3.7Ghz, but I wanted to increase fsb. Reduced multiplier down to x 10 and increase fsb slowly up, will run prime stable for 2.5 hours on 240 fsb on stock voltage. At 245 fsb though prime fails within about 15 minutes, so the guide says to increase voltage, but I want to check which one before I do increase it.
Now here is a (rubbish, sorry) photo of my bios voltage controls.
Now I assume it is going to be the NB voltage to increase, which could be
NB Voltage Control
NB/PCIe/PLL Voltage Control
CPU NB VID Control
From reading around it seems I will have to increase both NB Voltage and CPU NB Voltage to help with stability. It seems the NB Voltage is the actual Northbridge but different answers to what the CPU ND VID is.
Also will I need to increase the NB/PCIe/PLL Voltage Control at all? if it changes pci voltage then I shouldn't think so.
Second voltage questions are regards to cpu voltage. When I had stable 240 fsb I started to increase the multiplier back up but it became unstable again. I assume here this is when you start increasing the cpu voltage? or would it be best to increase the nb voltage some too?
Again though is the cpu voltage:
CPU Voltage control
CPU PLL Voltage control
Again searching around it seems to be the CPU Voltage control. I could find a decent (or understandable) explaination to what CPU PLL is though.
From reading on here specifically it semes people get their systems stable then slowly start decreasing the voltages again to see if it can remain stable on lower volts. Which suggests to me that during the overclocking process, the volts are increased too high for whats needed.
Sorry for the all the questions but thought I would get them all out of the way in one go. I think I have provided everything I need to, but if you want anymore info let me know.
Thank you to anyone that wades through all this to answer my questions.
Greboth.
Edit: Ok, don't know why imageshack has rotated my image.