Suggestions for better OC?

YoungBlood

YoungBlood

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I've decided to revisit an old overclock, never been able to get this above 2.4 so
this is the best I can do with my knowledge, in my BIOS there is no option to increase the FSB past 10x :confused: I've heard of these chips doing 2.8 but any higher than this and it hangs.
Board is Abit AV8 3rd Eye
Memory is standard crucial 3200 I believe
any suggestions welcome, or i'll just hold it at 2.4 a little dissapointed.
 
Are you running a divider on the memory? Your mem might not be able to handle 240MHz. Try getting into your bios and changing the CPU/Memory ratio to 166. This will run your memory at a lower speed to your fsb so that it doesn't limit your overclock.
 
Isnt fixed 66mhz the agp freq? Do not alter that if it is.
And they are not ram divider options they will either be listed as 200, 166, 133 etc or as 1:1, 2:3, 1:2 etc

There are several reasons you cant go any higher,

1. Your ram cant do 240 with 2.65v
2. Your cpu cant do over 2400 woth 1.4v
3. Your HTT cant do 1200

so...

As said before lower the ram divider to 166 and up the voltage to 2.8

Raise the cpu voltage to 1.5

Lower the HTT multi from 5 to 3


You can always lower the voltages when youve found the limit of your chip
 
Seems I can only go higher than 200 on the ram divider, like 266, 333, etc :mad: 200 is the lowest setting - guess 2.4gig is the limit at least on this memory.
Thanks for the help
 
HTT link change the HT multiplier to 4x or 3x otherwise you will bugger ** system up
 
YoungBlood said:
Seems I can only go higher than 200 on the ram divider, like 266, 333, etc :mad: 200 is the lowest setting - guess 2.4gig is the limit at least on this memory.
Thanks for the help
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Go for 333. Those speeds in your mobo are the DDR speeds (double data rate) so it's exactly the same as 166.

200=100
266=133
333=166

:)
 
mark1 said:
Go for 333. Those speeds in your mobo are the DDR speeds (double data rate) so it's exactly the same as 166.

200=100
266=133
333=166

:)
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Thanks mark i'll try that next, does anyone know why the multiplyer only goes upto 10, I thought you could do something like FSB 200 x a 12 multiplyer = 2.4gig
 
Well I did the 133 DDR timing and managed to get 2.45ghz at 1.5V, any higher and it locked up.
Im not sure what the highest voltage I can pump into the CPU....

What freaked me out though was on the reboot it did'nt detect my sata drives :confused: I proceded to change underwear then switched it off for a few mins at mains.
Thankfully it went back to normal, and put the OC Guru back on default, just wondering if anyone knows why the sata drives messed up?
The agp lock is at 66mhz, so im not sure what happened, leason learned though, its prolly best to mess about with OC'ing when you dont have data you simply cant afford to loose.

Oh and as the poster above suggested I placed the HTT at 3x from 5x as the 4x is known not to work at all on this MB, been well documented that its broke.
 
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