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ASUS Crosshair help
I'm looking to overclock my CPU I was wondering on some help with the
settings. I'm not used to so many. I have a stock cooler but I have 6 fans keeping it cool I have a x2 6000+ cpu 4 gigs of corsair ram 5.5.5.12 1.9v |
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ASUS Crosshair help
John wrote:
I'm looking to overclock my CPU I was wondering on some help with the settings. I'm not used to so many. I have a stock cooler but I have 6 fans keeping it cool I have a x2 6000+ cpu 4 gigs of corsair ram 5.5.5.12 1.9v There is not a lot of headroom left, on a 90nm 3GHz AMD processor. You can change your HT bus multiplier, from 200x5, to 200x4, then start cranking the CPU clock from 200 to something higher. You probably won't need to change any RAM timings at all, as the wheels will likely fall off your processor, before you get too far. In terms of cranking the 200MHz CPU input clock, try it 5MHz at a time. To experiment in Windows, you are in luck. The Nforce 590 is supported by Clockgen. http://www.cpuid.com/clockgen.php What you do, is set up the PLL and tell it you have an Nforce 590. The dial box should then be available. (Note - I'm only going on how I set up my ICS 952607 here, and I don't have an Nforce board, and the details may be slightly different. Maybe the detection will be a bit more automatic for you.) This is the dial box. http://www.cpuid.com/pics/cgpllcontrol.png The upper slider should control the CPU clock. Note that you cannot use "clockgen" in Windows, until you've entered the BIOS and turned down your HyperTransport multiplier to x4 (so HT runs at 800MHz, and you have room to increase the CPU clock to 250, before 250x4 reaches the 1000 limit). With the HT multiplier turned down, and back in Windows, you can increase the CPU clock 5MHz at a time. Click "apply selection" when you're happy with the slider value. The way that clockgen works, is it increases the clock 1MHz at a time, waiting a short interval between tries. You'll see the "busy cursor" while it is doing this. If you are running CPUZ, you'll notice the clock being ramped while clockgen is busy. For example, for a large step change in frequency, clockgen will need about 30 seconds to do it. The author of clockgen does it that way, on the assumption that the PLL can only be "pulled a little bit at a time", without crashing the CPU. OK, now you have basic clock control. The second tool you'll need is Orthos. Orthos will run two copies of the Prime95 Torture Test. Orthos will stop and show an error message in the log window, at the first sign of trouble. Start Orthos running, until you see the paging has stopped and the test has started. Look for progress messages in the log window. http://sp2004.fre3.com/beta/beta2.htm Let it run for a minute, so it has done a bit of testing. If it stops immediately, your computer is not stable enough to do anything with. You need to work on your voltages and timings etc. in that case. You cannot be an overclocker, unless you know how to set up a computer. It won't work safely or effectively otherwise (what good is a computer that always crashes ?). Let's assume it has passed the test for at least a minute. Now, go to Clockgen, and increase the CPU from 200MHz (nominal) to 205MHz. Click Apply Selection. Wait another minute or two. Did Orthos stop and report an error ? If so, you've overclocked too far, for the current Vcore selection and other conditions. This will give you a quick taste of overclocking, without having to do a lot of work. You would be advised to also watch the CPU temperature, as it'll get hot during this test. The 6000+ is rated for 125W power dissipation, and as you overclock, it will draw more than that. Hot times await... The purpose of changing the CPU clock only a little bit at a time, is so you won't crash the computer outright. When Orthos errors out, that is how you know you're getting near "the edge". To go past "the edge", at that point you'll need to go back to the BIOS and fiddle with things like Vcore. The purpose of Clockgen, is to avoid having to drop down to the BIOS, and reboot so many times. But remember that increasing Vcore, pushes up the power dissipation, so sooner or later, your CPU will be an inferno. And if pushed far enough, the Vcore MOSFETs around the CPU, will also start to get hot. Paul |
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