What am i doing wrong here? *grumbles*

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What am i doing wrong here? SUCSESS! :D

Ok, i've tried to give this cpu overclocking thingy a go, and im having no luck at all. I soooooooo wish it was as easy as clocking a video card, but anyway.

Im trying to clock my system (specs in sig) and both times i've tried, the damn thing wont POST. All i get is constant beeping, which apparently is a RAM error.

Obviously my knowledge of cpu overclocking is limited, and somewhat retarded but i do understand the basic concept of it. Anyway, these are the settings i changed in the bios to up my clocks.

- Multi: 10x (Stock)
- FSB/HTT: 230 (I know its high to start off with, but i figure this chip can push past that regardless)
- HT Multi: 4x
- Cool and Quiet: Off
- CPU Fan Speed: 80%

Ok, as i said, it refuses to POST with those settings, and i keep getting a constant beeping. So im figuring i need to underclock the ram to DDR333 or something. but im not completely sure. The thing is, all the RAM settings (and i mean ALL of them) have to be set individually if i turn off the Auto settings, and i dont want to go messing with that incase its not the ram that's the problem.

So does that sound right to anybody else? It sounds right to me, but i have very little expirience in this area.
 
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Ok ok ok!!! It's almost 4am, and it got the better of me.

Ready for it....? :D









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Woohoo! I know its not much, but its Windows stable, and my temps didnt go up at all, which was my main concern. But yay! :D

Same settings as before, but with the ram at DDR333, which is now running at: 3-3-3-7 @ 191.7mhz. (which is basically stock)

According to cpu-z i can run it at CAS 2.5 @ 166 (DDR333), so i'll tweak that tomorrow. Thanks for confirming what i thought man. :D

I'll puke happy fun-time juice out my pee hole if i can get it to 2.6, especially with stock volts. :D
 
Thank you, thank you! :D

I think my ram is gonna be the limiting factor here, as i couldnt get it to POST @ 230, and by increasing the HTT its already back up to 190 from 166, and i really dont wanna run it at 133. An unlocked multiplier would be handy here, i could bump that up to 11 and drop the HTT down, but alas, i think 10x is its max. :(
 
You cant run that ram at cas 2.5. The SPD table in cpu-z reports you can run it at that when on DDR333 but you must remember you're running it faster than that - near ddr400. You should be able to hit 2.4ghz (probably higher) without needing to drop the divider further. Remember to drop the HT to 3x if you go about 250 fsb.
 
Oh ok, yeah, that makes sense. I was still a lil pumped from actually getting the damn thing to work. But i totally understand what you mean.

I am planning to hit 2.6 with it, so i assume other than lowering the ram speed to 133 (which will be taken back up by the HTT), i should not expect to see the ram underperforming for any reason? I mean, lowering the initial ram speed doesnt change anything else?
 
Well you can probably get away with overclocking the ram slightly, you might be able to keep the divider @ DDR333 and maintain the timings or you may need to slacken them slightly to 3-4-3-7 or 3-4-4-8.
 
Well if the RAM can handle 220, that'll get me veeeeeery close to 2.6. But that doesnt mean it's gonna be stable... hmm. Im pretty sure i can safely hit 2.5, which is a 25% increase for free, cant really complain about that.
 
What ram is it? Mine's just Geil Value - cheap crap with blue heatspreaders.

Build: Week 21 - 2005, if that makes any difference.
 
TaKeN said:
I run my ram @ DDR 333


With FSB @ 255,


EDIT : Oops i have a higher multiplier Sorry ! :)
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You're multi doesnt matter when it comes to dividers, 255 x 5/6(DDR333) is 212.5 regardless of your multiplier. Yeah the the timings on geil value 2gb kit are pretty poor but it only amounts to 5% difference anyway really. it should do 220, u dont even need 220 for 2.6g
 
2.4Ghz stable, and my ram is back up to DDR400. :D

Idle temp went up one whole degree, is now idling at 31c. It hit 36c under load last night, running 3Dmark06.

How much more do you think i'll squeeze out of it before i have to up the volts? I know there's no correct answer for that, but what are the averages for X2 3800's?
 
Seriously you should be able to get that higher by running your ram slower, there's near to no performance drop from doing so aswell. In the old days of Socket A's yeah it made a helluva difference, but now you can just drop the ram right down and not worry :)
 
Its strange, i always thought of CPU overclocking as this complicated and time consuming thing, which it can be. But if you sit down and think about it logically and mathmatically(sp?) its actually very simple. If you dont get limited by your own hardware, that is.
 
2.5Ghz - Stable. :cool:

Ram is now running at 208 on the DRR333 divider, if i can get it to 2.6 with the ram at around 216 and stable, i'll leave it at that.

Gained a whole 300 marks on 3Dmark06. :p
 
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