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Improved Overclock
Hey all,
I bought a system a little over a month ago and just got back from vacation to play with it some more. I have: Athlon 64 3200+ Clawhammer (1MB Cache) MSI K8N Neo Platinum Crucial Ballistix PC3200 2x512 Here is the dealio, before I left I was having problems getting it to overclock anywhere near what I had expected, but after some voltage tweaks and such, I am back in business. I first had the FSB from 200 to 237 at the default CPU ratio of x10. My memory would instantly go async with a FSB/DRAM ratio of CPU / 12, so my memory was only running at 197.5Mhz. The problem with that is that I wanted to overclock my memory too, since the ballistix can run up to DDR514 in several benchmarks on this same motherboard. So my first question is, does anyone know if it is possible to change the async ratio? Now, today I finally looked up the tech sheets for the processor and memory to see the rated voltages and realized that the voltages that it defaulted to in the BIOS were actually much lower than it was rated for, so I upped them near the highest range offered by the BIOS. The memory had a default rated voltage of only .05V below the highest available selection, so I just maxxed it at 2.85V. The CPU however is rated at 1.5V default, but in order to do my most recent stable overclock i upped it to 1.7V, which is 3 from the max in the BIOS. Now, the best I have gotten so far is 247 FSB, x10 CPU ratio, but still has the CPU / 12 FSB/DRAM ratio, which makes my memory run at 205.8Mhz. So barely an overclock compared to its potential. Do you see my problem? I keep raising the FSB but it has little impact on my memory speed. I can be satisfied with this as it is better than I was getting, but if it is possible for me to improve it more, that would be ten times better. Sorry this was so long and thanks for any help!! Rich |
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