CPU CLock Setting in Bios?

[Bigg]

I have a new Athlon 64 3500 with a Soltek SL-K8TPro-939 board and I have been getting some performance problems,

I was looking in my BIOS and I noticed that CPU Ratio is set to "Start-Up". Is that normal? I set it to 2200MHz but I'm unsure if that's safe.

Also, under the setting CPU CLock, it's set to 200MHz? Is that normal? I bumped it up to 300MHZ. How much should I bump it up? This board has a 1000MHz FSB.

Any advice you guys could give would be helpful. Thanks.

Also, what other settings should I look for that might be hindering performance?

 

[JohnAn2112]

CPU ratio at "startup" is the default. So you're cpu is running at a multiplier of 11. Your CPU clock should be set to 200 by default as well. To get your CPU speed, you multiply the ratio with the clock to get 2200 MHz which is what the 3500+ CPU is rated at. As for the 1000Mhz FSB, that's your Hypertransport speeds. It should be set to 1000 or lower depending on if you want to overclock or not. You should see something called HT frequency and that should be set to 5x. You multiply that with your CPU clock to get the 1000 FSB (or HTT).

 

[Bigg]

OK, thanks. I followed everything you mentioned and every thing seems setup normal. I changed that setting from "start up" to x11 2200MHZ.

The setting for CPU clock can be changed to between 200MHz and 300MHz, using 1MHz intervals. I got it up to 213MHz without a problem...opps.. nevermind... it just froze running 3Dmark03. I guess that's not a safe number. I reset it to 200MHz.