Originally posted by: tno
ajsasr,
I've not done a whole lot of overclocking in my days but I've heard good things about this CPU and overclocking. I've got the following setup:
When you're overclocking it's generally a good idea to loosen all of your memory timings until you've found the top end of your processors stability. Also, the better bet, to get good stable overclocks is to (painstakingly) take it up a few Mhz at a time (say, 5) and test for stability, a fifteen minute Prime95 torture test should be enough. As far as your board goes, I'm pretty sure it doesn't have a lot of options for ratio manipulation. The chipset will basically just pick the right divider for you, which will typically be very conservative and nothing to really worry about. Just so we know, what does CPU-z report your memory speed as at stock?
Tno
Right now I'm running 242MHz FSB on a Pen D 915. That gets me to about 3.4GHz. (Strange thing is that sometimes when I boot the POST says 3.40 and other times it says 3.41. Not sure why.) That also puts my DDR2-533 at 242MHz on a 1 : 1. Everything seems to be fine and I can run Orthos for 1+ hours error free. Yesterday however after about 2 hours of WoW, the system rebooted. My initial thought was I i didn't have enough voltage to the RAM or CPU. Whether that's the case for not, I don't know. There are soooo many settings in this BIOS that can be changed, I don't know what to do. So I changed my AGP apt from 64 to 128, and changed my V-Link speed from fast to normal, and my HDD Strenght from Highest to normal. It's running like that now.
Last night I ran Orthos for almost 5 hours error free on default settings. Is that a good indication that I don't have a hardware problem and that my reboot is a settings issue?
Here are my settings:
Overclock Mode - CPU,PCIE Async.
CPUFr. - 242
PCIE Fr. - 100
PCI Fr. - 33.33
Spread Spectrum - Disabled
Boot Failure - enabled
Max CPUID Val. - Disabled
No-Execute Memory. - Disabled
Chipset:
Dram Freque. - Auto
Flexib.- Disabled
Cas Latency - 4
Interleave - 4-Way
Precharge - 4
Tras - 12
trcd - 4
trfc - Auto
trrd - Auto
trtp - Auto
twtr - Auto
twr - Auto
Bus Select.- Dual
Command Rate - 2T
Advanced Memory... all default
Advanced Host Conf:
Pipeline DRQCTL - Enabled
all other default
DRAM Voltage - Low
AGP Voltage - High
Primary Gra.Adapt. - AGP
AGP - 8x
AGP Fast Write - Enable
AGP Aperture Size - 128MB
AGP Staggered delay - auto
AGP GADSTB - auto
V-Link - normal
PCI delay Transaction - enabled
IDE Drive Strenght - normal
PCIE Downstream Pipeline - disabled
Onboard LAN - enabled
Onboard Sound - enable
ACPI - default
IDE - default
PCIpnp - default
Floppy - disable
Super IO - all disabled
USB Conf. - default
Thanks.
---Edit---
I just ran Orthos for 3 hours without any errors.