Lord Banshee
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The only problem i have with the board is any HTT over 300 gets a cold boot 4/5 times and werid specview scores for my modded 6800->quadrofx.
Originally posted by: designit
But why do you have HTT @ 3x200=600? why not 1000?Originally posted by: Double Echo
I'd say I'm happy with my board. I won't be forced to buy a PCI-E card right away (and from what I've seen, there's not much difference yet) and I was able to obtain a 600MHz overclock to 2.4 with only about 10F increase in temperature at load, ON STOCK COOLING! If I had done this with my old Athlon XP 2500+, we'd be looking at about 20-30F increase even with the Volcano 12 heatsink/fan I had at 5500RPM.
This board was worth every cent and more.
And, couldnt you do 300x9=2.7ghz for A64 3000?
Originally posted byouble Echo
Well, I didn't do 1000 because when I set it to 1000, it wouldn't POST past being OC'd to 2.0GHz. Once I lowered the HTT to 600 on both the North and Southbridge, I was able to attain 270FSB.
Check this thread out for benchmarks on lower HTT speeds:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=39559
Some people have reported better results with lower HTT settings. If I could get this to 300 FSB I would, but it just won't go past 270. I'd imagine I need a voltage mod for my 3000+, but I don't feel like potentially wasting $146. I'm happy with the overclock I've gotten.
Edit: If you can give me some tips on getting past 270FSB (Exact BIOS settings if possible) on my Venice 3000+ then I'll definitely give it a try. I've got the voltage at 1.45 now, my guess is that's the only thing holding it back. However, I don't want to do a voltage mod and ruin my processor, as I did this to a Barton 2500+ and I know I'd screw it up.
Originally posted by: designit
Originally posted byouble Echo
Well, I didn't do 1000 because when I set it to 1000, it wouldn't POST past being OC'd to 2.0GHz. Once I lowered the HTT to 600 on both the North and Southbridge, I was able to attain 270FSB.
Check this thread out for benchmarks on lower HTT speeds:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=39559
Some people have reported better results with lower HTT settings. If I could get this to 300 FSB I would, but it just won't go past 270. I'd imagine I need a voltage mod for my 3000+, but I don't feel like potentially wasting $146. I'm happy with the overclock I've gotten.
Edit: If you can give me some tips on getting past 270FSB (Exact BIOS settings if possible) on my Venice 3000+ then I'll definitely give it a try. I've got the voltage at 1.45 now, my guess is that's the only thing holding it back. However, I don't want to do a voltage mod and ruin my processor, as I did this to a Barton 2500+ and I know I'd screw it up.
1.45v is low. the only other thing I can suggest using divider. Ram @166 and setting ram vdim to high. try cpu fsb from 270 up every 5mhz. this way you have removed ram's voltage limitation but might still have problem w/ vcore.
But yah 24.3 GHz cpu is 35% improvement which is great.
voltage modding. seems very easy on this board.The ASRock won't let the Venice 3000+ go above 1.45 Vcore, so I'm limited via the BIOS. RAM voltage is already set to high and speed is at 166MHz. I even tried 133. Any other options?
Originally posted by: designit
voltage modding. seems very easy on this board.The ASRock won't let the Venice 3000+ go above 1.45 Vcore, so I'm limited via the BIOS. RAM voltage is already set to high and speed is at 166MHz. I even tried 133. Any other options?
Also you should keep HTT as close to 1000mhz as possible since it also effects your agp bus, bottlenecking the good agp bandwidth.
I dont care what the other forum was doing, but apparantly effected super pi which is
important. do your own benching and see if FPS changes on any graphic test.
Originally posted by: Westmassguy
Motherboard Monitor works fine with this board.
You must set it up manually however since the author of MBM stopped further developement before this board was released.
Originally posted by: Lord Banshee
Well to let everyone know
i am using ocwbeta2 bios and did the Vcore mod on ocw's site (Double Echo this doesn't require you to touch the CPU. All you do is connect two nodes of a once open circuit.
It is very easy to do, all i did was tape off everything around the area i wanted to connect, get a drop (small small small) of solder put it in between the two nodes, use my solderiron to melt the solder to one node to the other as clean and little as possible. remove tape and enjoy Vcore up to 1.65 (my board will go higher as my PSU seems to overclock).
But anyway i am prime95 testing these setting (i'll edit this post when i get home and tell you if it failed)
Congrat. Hope you get 2.8ghz>. the ram timing aren?t bad at all.
what brand mem? Hope my TCCD (patriot XBLK) give me good timing when I get this mobo.
I mean for little and easy vmod and $69 board you get 2.7 out of A64 3000.
most expensive nf4 needs a lot of trial and error to reach 2.6-2.7ghz. If you could do 2.8
that means better than DFI LP, Kicking nf4 out the door.
BTW, are you using stock HSF?
Bios
--CPU--
HTT:300
PCIE:102
Bios Failed gaurd: On
CnQ Off
Spead Spectrume(sp?): off
Multiplier: 9
Voltage: (1.125, really it is somewhere between 1.55 and 1.6: read ocw's vcore mod)
Divider: 100Mhz (use a64_info windows tool to set to 150... ie 225Mhz on the RAM)
timing: 2.5x3x3x7 1T
--Chipset--
NB->CPU link 600Mhz
Dram voltage: High
Windows:
A64_info /A64 Tweaker, set Mem Divider to 150 to get higher Ram clocks with out cold boots from asrock bios issue.
I hope this helps.
-Chris
**edit**
8 hours and 45 min Prime95 stable...
here are settings
http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=40922
Now I'll try 2800 lol
those timings are too loose and most probably not much oc @1:1.Originally posted by: LeonarD26
Do you need really good RAM to overclock on this board?? I have 2 x 512 Mushkin that can be seen here:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820146219
I'm worried that I wont be able to get a decent overclock with this board and a Venice. I currently have it running on my Mobile Athlon 2400 running at 10.5 x 200
Thanks!
Originally posted by: r0llot0masi
Is there any way to measure temps on this board through Windows? I'd like to see what my temps are while under load. When I check it in the bios (after it has had some time to cool down) it says 38*C when the cpu (3200+) is at 2.0 and 2.2ghz, and it says 41* at 2.4.
Originally posted by: designit
Congrat. Hope you get 2.8ghz>. the ram timing aren?t bad at all.
what brand mem? Hope my TCCD (patriot XBLK) give me good timing when I get this mobo.
I mean for little and easy vmod and $69 board you get 2.7 out of A64 3000.
most expensive nf4 needs a lot of trial and error to reach 2.6-2.7ghz.
Kicking nf4 out the door.
BTW, are you using stock HSF?
Originally posted by: Lord Banshee
Well to let everyone know
i am using ocwbeta2 bios and did the Vcore mod on ocw's site (Double Echo this doesn't require you to touch the CPU. All you do is connect two nodes of a once open circuit.
It is very easy to do, all i did was tape off everything around the area i wanted to connect, get a drop (small small small) of solder put it in between the two nodes, use my solderiron to melt the solder to one node to the other as clean and little as possible. remove tape and enjoy Vcore up to 1.65 (my board will go higher as my PSU seems to overclock).
But anyway i am prime95 testing these setting (i'll edit this post when i get home and tell you if it failed)
Bios
--CPU--
HTT:300
PCIE:102
Bios Failed gaurd: On
CnQ Off
Spead Spectrume(sp?): off
Multiplier: 9
Voltage: (1.125, really it is somewhere between 1.55 and 1.6: read ocw's vcore mod)
Divider: 100Mhz (use a64_info windows tool to set to 150... ie 225Mhz on the RAM)
timing: 2.5x3x3x7 1T
--Chipset--
NB->CPU link 600Mhz
Dram voltage: High
Windows:
A64_info /A64 Tweaker, set Mem Divider to 150 to get higher Ram clocks with out cold boots from asrock bios issue.
I hope this helps.
-Chris
**edit**
8 hours and 45 min Prime95 stable...
here are settings
http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=40922
Now I'll try 2800 lol
Originally posted by: Double Echo
Well, I'm glad to see the mod worked for ya. I can't afford to get another CPU if I screw it up though, so I'll stick with my 600MHz overclock.
My parents want me to build them a PC, so I'm going to get them another ASRock board and the Venice 3000+ E6 (I have the E3) and see how it goes. If the E6 goes higher, I might just have to swap them....
Originally posted by: The Pentium Guy
Originally posted by: Double Echo
Well, I'm glad to see the mod worked for ya. I can't afford to get another CPU if I screw it up though, so I'll stick with my 600MHz overclock.
My parents want me to build them a PC, so I'm going to get them another ASRock board and the Venice 3000+ E6 (I have the E3) and see how it goes. If the E6 goes higher, I might just have to swap them....
You're going to overclock your parents' PC?
.
Originally posted by: Lord Banshee
Thanks
- 2.8 ended with a BSOD during win booting. I am happy with 2.7, i am going to try and see if i can lower the VCore some more and see if it is stable.
- this is my ram (unless they changed the chip) i have two of these
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145026
- Who said i didn't have trial and error lol. There was some amount of hours in this OC, so not sure if it is kicking DFI as i never owned one of those.
- I am using this heat sink pluged directly into mobo (no hi/low switch install using it for my HTPC)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835118113
BTW i am working on a program to load A64Info Change the settings and close it for starting up... (if and when i get done and anyone is intrested i will post the exe)
Your parents must love you... >.<Absolutely! I'm the one who fixes all of their stuff anyways