pushed up my 3700sd a bit

Hitman_Leon · 9 Mar 2006 at 16:45

Well thought I might give it some speed and upped the fsb to 255 in 5mhz steps. Dropped the htt to 3 and got it to 2803mhz. Default volts freezer 64 pro cooler @ 34 idle and 40 load according to mbm5 not sure if thats right though for the temps. Seems nice and stable.
msi k8n diamond
3700sd
hiper psu
x1900xtx
2*512mb kingmax hardcore ddr 500

So how's that clock stand in the scheme of things, not clocked anything for years, since I had a athlon 1400 @ 1600

Hitman_Leon · 9 Mar 2006 at 17:00

prim95 and superpi, don't know steppings never looked. Couple of hours of prime and a couple of go's at superpi. Im not sure about the temps though how close is mbm5 to actual temps if anyone knows.

Hitman_Leon · 9 Mar 2006 at 17:37

prime just fell on its face, more volts, how much should I up it? just want to find total stability not clock any further. Spoke too soon about speed with stock volts, cursed myself to failiure.

Hitman_Leon · 9 Mar 2006 at 17:54

Explicit said:
Damn! Increase volts one step up, then try again.

erm dumb question, but whats the default volts for a 3700sd, I have not idea and I can't see a default figure in bios.

Hitman_Leon · 9 Mar 2006 at 18:13

So by cpu-z would mine be the e4 stepping?

Name AMD Athlon 64 3700+
Code Name San Diego
Specification AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3700+
Family / Model / Stepping F 7 1
Extended Family / Model F 27
Brand ID 4
Package Socket 939
Core Stepping SH-E4
Technology 90 nm
Supported Instructions Sets MMX, Extended MMX, 3DNow!, Extended 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, x86-64
CPU Clock Speed 2805.2 MHz
Clock multiplier x 11.0
HTT Bus Frequency 255.0 MHz
L1 Data Cache 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L1 Instruction Cache 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L2 Cache 1024 KBytes, 16-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L2 Speed 2805.2 MHz (Full)
L2 Location On Chip
L2 Data Prefetch Logic yes
L2 Bus Width 128 bits

Hitman_Leon · 9 Mar 2006 at 18:44

seems better at 1.425v, assuming I am reading cpu-z right and the default volts should be 1.4, then 1.425 is not too much of an increase and its the smallest step up I can take on this k8n diamond. Temps top off at 43 now and 34 idle. BTW it was prime getting rounding error, 04 instead of 0.5, suppose that means the cpu fails its maths test at stock volts. Funny though I ran that test a few times before its just refused to run again and just kept getting the same error.

Hitman_Leon · 9 Mar 2006 at 18:52

I just upped it to 1.45v as 1.425 failed tsk, spoke too soon.

Hitman_Leon · 9 Mar 2006 at 20:39

Well running smooth now and high temp down to 42. It did run games and super pi fine on stock volts just pegged it on prime 95. As for half baked, nope never half baked, never will be as its not related to you and your half baked comments big.wayne.

Hitman_Leon · 10 Mar 2006 at 00:41

Thanks matt, my thoughts exactly. You know its an up and down world this clocking bussiness. All chips no matter what their stepping have their own limits, need these volts or that fsb ect. Now im not a new tweaker, and I did ask for advice as I am a little unsure of this 3700, only had it a few days, I posted what went wrong so I hid nothing. What do some people want, do they want new people to think the forums have some kind of elite members who never have a blue screen or a failed bench. That would be misleading, you have to show warts and all so others can learn from your mistakes, and the advice given by contributers that helped them out. I don't see my first results as a failiure, superpi and all my games ran no problems. Just fell down with prime. I just fished for advice as I wan't my system stable. And the kudos go's to those who helped me out and pushed me in the right direction. Its not a look at my massive clock thread, its a look I just did the run of the mill 3700 clock thread, and I need a few pointers to get it just right.