What's The Best Way to Overclock SD 3700

[nheather]

Just bought a shiny new Athlon 64 3700+ (SD) and an Arctic 64 Freezer Pro.

My RAM is branded DDR400 but is "value" type - I know it is stable at 215Mhz at stock voltage but have never pushed it any higher.

What is the best way to start clocking the SD 3700+ (divider, FSB or both).

I assume that on stock the SD is 11x200 (2.2Ghz), and I've heard that it can be clocked at 2.6Ghz plus.

How have you guys acheived that - I'm on air cooling only and am not looking for extreme over-clocking.

Cheers,

Nigel

 

[nheather]

kv3

with the latest chips

Mine is still unopened
ADA3700DAA5BN
KAB2E 0549EPAW

I gather this is stepping E4 - whatever that means

Mikey1280
That didn't make a whole lot of sense to me at the moment - probably will when I open up the BIOS - what is HTT/LDT?

Cheers,

Nigel

 

[nheather]

Thanks for that. I now understand the HTT/LDT but can I check my the memory divider.

I assuming the divider you refer to allows the use of DDR333 memory with a 200FSB CPU. So divider is 200/166 = 1.20

So when you up the FSB to 250 and use this divider the memory clock will be 250/1.2 = 208 (i.e a slight overclock which should be no problem).

Is this correct?

If so, I guess if you had good memory you may be able to leave the divider on 1:1 and run the memory at 250.

My memory isn't that good - Geil Value DDR200 - I doub't it could reach 250 but should be able to to 225 or 230.

Is there anyway I could accomodate that or would I be better leaving it at 208 and trying to improve on the default 3-8-4-4 timings or a combination of the two.

Cheers,

Nigel