hi folks, im new here and have been out of overclocking for some time, since the amd duran/thunderbird days.
anyway, been playing around tryin to overclock my amd athlonII quad core (2.6ghz stock)with a asrock k10n78 mobo. some kingston 2x2gb800 mem.
initaillay i was overclocking the cpu upto 3.2ghz stable with a FSB of 248 (200 stock) (prime95) then realised the memory was running single rather than dual (factory fitted memory) so swopped slots. which i hoped would help the poor benchmarking scores, i foget the sandra index, but the windows index lowest score was a poor 2.5!
anyhow, with dual memory running im now only able to get 2.8ghz (fsb 216)and no more, i now the cpu and memory can go more, ive tried increasing voltages to no avail, anymore than 2.8 and its the blue screen. im thinking its the memory controller - if so is there anything that can be done?
benchmarking using the dual memery gets much better scores than single so i dont think returning to single memory is the answer???
any help or info much appreciated.
great forum by the way
anyway, been playing around tryin to overclock my amd athlonII quad core (2.6ghz stock)with a asrock k10n78 mobo. some kingston 2x2gb800 mem.
initaillay i was overclocking the cpu upto 3.2ghz stable with a FSB of 248 (200 stock) (prime95) then realised the memory was running single rather than dual (factory fitted memory) so swopped slots. which i hoped would help the poor benchmarking scores, i foget the sandra index, but the windows index lowest score was a poor 2.5!
anyhow, with dual memory running im now only able to get 2.8ghz (fsb 216)and no more, i now the cpu and memory can go more, ive tried increasing voltages to no avail, anymore than 2.8 and its the blue screen. im thinking its the memory controller - if so is there anything that can be done?
benchmarking using the dual memery gets much better scores than single so i dont think returning to single memory is the answer???
any help or info much appreciated.
great forum by the way