I'm a complete n00b at overclocking, but thats not going to stop me from frying my system. I started by locking the processor frequency at 12X, setting memclock to 200 (default?) and (3-3-3-8), HT to 5x, processor volt to 1.425. I then raise the FSB from the default 200 to 210, then 215, then 225. It hangs at boot @ 225, so I move it back to 220.
I run Orthos (Prime95 for dual core CPUs) and I quickly get an error. I run some .EXE version of Memtest that works on x64 bit systems and I don't get any memory errors, but then again that version wasn't made by the same guy who created the original Memtest, so who knows. I scale it back slowly until I reach 215, at which point I was able to run Orthos for a while with no crashes. So I ended up w/ a speed of 2.58 GHZ, which seems kind of low to me.
Am I doing something wrong with my RAM, should I be setting the memclock lower or something? I think my RAM might have ended up being heavily overclocked. Should I give my CPU/RAM more volts or loosen up the clock timings? Anything would be helpful.
EDIT: My RAM is Corsair and DDR400, forgot to put that in my sig.
I run Orthos (Prime95 for dual core CPUs) and I quickly get an error. I run some .EXE version of Memtest that works on x64 bit systems and I don't get any memory errors, but then again that version wasn't made by the same guy who created the original Memtest, so who knows. I scale it back slowly until I reach 215, at which point I was able to run Orthos for a while with no crashes. So I ended up w/ a speed of 2.58 GHZ, which seems kind of low to me.
Am I doing something wrong with my RAM, should I be setting the memclock lower or something? I think my RAM might have ended up being heavily overclocked. Should I give my CPU/RAM more volts or loosen up the clock timings? Anything would be helpful.
EDIT: My RAM is Corsair and DDR400, forgot to put that in my sig.