So I have finally gone and chunked my stock cooler for a nice Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro, and have already begun overclocking. Cores run at 18-22 C each at idle, and 29-37 C each at full load ; I have not changed ANY voltages, and I'm not sure if I want to yet...
My farthest overclock so far is 9.5 multi @ 274, I started by turning my RAM down to 533, and the respective timings: CAS Latency 4 ; RAS to CAS 4 ; RAS Precharge 4 ; tRAS 10 ; tRC 14
Then I bumped my FSB from 200 and went 8 MHz x 3, then 6 MHz x 3, 4 MHz x 6, and 2 MHz for the rest of the way. At each step, I ran Orthos' blend test for 5 - 30 minutes, depending on how bored I was (watch TV, etc).
EDIT: I mistakenly forgot to set my HT multi down, which caused my PC to not always POST when it rebooted.
EDIT: When I got to 274, I changed my memory up to DDR2 800, and timings to 5-5-5-15-21, had to power cycle my computer 4 times before it came up, and my motherboard was in Warning! safe mode. So I bumped the memory back down, I am now currently at 278 and testing...I am guessing I can't bump my memory higher now, will this affect performance?
My farthest overclock so far is 9.5 multi @ 274, I started by turning my RAM down to 533, and the respective timings: CAS Latency 4 ; RAS to CAS 4 ; RAS Precharge 4 ; tRAS 10 ; tRC 14
Then I bumped my FSB from 200 and went 8 MHz x 3, then 6 MHz x 3, 4 MHz x 6, and 2 MHz for the rest of the way. At each step, I ran Orthos' blend test for 5 - 30 minutes, depending on how bored I was (watch TV, etc).
EDIT: I mistakenly forgot to set my HT multi down, which caused my PC to not always POST when it rebooted.
EDIT: When I got to 274, I changed my memory up to DDR2 800, and timings to 5-5-5-15-21, had to power cycle my computer 4 times before it came up, and my motherboard was in Warning! safe mode. So I bumped the memory back down, I am now currently at 278 and testing...I am guessing I can't bump my memory higher now, will this affect performance?