Overclocking PWNAGE

[Howard]

LOL 200FSB that'll be crazy.

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?pcm=1614533

Are these scores good?

[Russ]

ur supposed to use lower multi's howard

[streetster]

as russ said, lower the multiplier, so that you can increase the fsb more... here is my pcmark2002 score, with the cpu (1700 tbred b) at 2.3Ghz, with the multi at 11.5, and fsb at 200..

i dont know how well your crucial ram will overclock, but my samsung pc2700 is running 201mhz (402mhz ddr) at 2.7v, so your crucial might be able to get into the high 180's maybe 200 if you are lucky.. however you want to keep the fsb and the ram speed synchronous (ie divider of 1:1) as this yeilds best performance

mark

[chrisf6969]

I wish my HDD scores werent so low. I guess it time for me to upgrade... my IBM 40GB 7200rpm is crap! And the higher the FSB the lower my HDD score. Intel really needs an application accelerator for its 875/865 IDE channels.
look at my crap HDD score... but nice memory...
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?pcm=1571307

[Howard]

I do keep lowering the multis Russ. Lol. I'm just a little wary about the FSB incase it damages the rest of my equipment?

But I'll keep going anyway

400MHz FSB would be sweet

[Trash Man]

200FSB is far from crazy. I got mine to 217FSB stable and through 3dmark, although I run it at 200X12 everyday.

[Trash Man]

Originally posted by Howard
I do keep lowering the multis Russ. Lol. I'm just a little wary about the FSB incase it damages the rest of my equipment?

But I'll keep going anyway

400MHz FSB would be sweet

The onlt other thing it will be overclocking is your memory, and if you have some PC3200, that runs at 200FSB as default so it's not even overclocking it.

On older boards you would have had trouble with the AGP and PCI slots, but they are locked on newer boards so you can't damage anything.

[Howard]

Yeah that's what it was like on my ECS board I think.

It's at 180FSB now. x12 so 2.17 GHz.

I'm scared to go up to 200 incase my memory combusts!! It's only 166!!

[Trash Man]

You might find that it will hit 200 with ease. A lot of PC2700 does. If not, flog it and get some TwinMOS 3200 and get to that 200FSB mark

[Howard]

Lol.

How much is this TwinMOS stuff?

[Trash Man]

http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?a...rpID=9&cks=PRL

Looking at around £80 inc delivery for 2*256 w/Winbond.

[Howard]

Hmmm..
Don't think I wanna spend that much and only get 512MB. I was planning on getting another identical stick to mine for 1GB ram and dual channel.

I've heard dual channel can hinder overclocking... Is this true?

[blockers]

Looking good that overclock. Just a few things

a) I would get a better HSF, something that is 80mm, and all copper. As i find 60mm a hell of a lot louder.

b) Sell the Crucial 512mb, and get 2x256mb (pc2700, or pc3200 if you can afford it) This will make use of the 5% extra you get for dual channel. so if the RAM is running at 400 its actually 410.

c) I personally think it would be a silly investment to get another 512mb of pc2700. becuase 1gb isnt fully utilized unless you are doing somehting liek DVD decoding/encoding. and pc2700 is a bit old hat now. Also pc3200 is only a few pounds more.

d) Where are you taking the temperatue reading from? in the BIOS they can vary by about 10 degrees.

c) Try to keep voltage to a minimal, remember i find my NF7-S (v2.0) unvolts by about 0.025v. So 1.825v, is actaully just 1.8v. I dont trust above 1.8v-ish, even then i only get minimal gains, so i tend to keep it clocked a bit lower and 1.75v through it.

d) For gods sake man!! what are you doing with a gf4 mx440!! there is a 8500 for sale for £35 in the for sale section! that will cream the mx!!

Hope some of that helps

Will

p.s RE: Hindering overclocking - my 2x256mb pc2700 samsung. Has been to 200 on a Streetsters board (expox [cant remember model] kt333.) I desparatly wanted it to run at pc3200. But could only get 195 stable from it (2.7v, 7-3-3-2.5) I tried with one stick, and managed to get it to boot at 200fsb but all the apps created errors. So it wasnt too good.

[Howard]

Thanks for the advice. I don't really need ridiculous overclocking potential, it's just nice to get as much out of it as I can with my equipment.

And if I was to buy a new graphics card, I wouldn't waste my money on something older. I'll be getting a 9600XT sometime in the future (after Xmas sometime most likely). Along with some RAM, as I feel 1GB is an improvement. I've tried it on mates' machines.

[Howard]

Here are a few benchmark screenies I'm quite impressed with (considering this is my first proper overclocking lark):

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/tony.canning/benchmark

[Nox]

Originally posted by Howard
It boots in about 10 seconds flat!!!

get bootvis, this will not only optimise your boot up times, but also tell you accurately how long its taking. mine was at 9 seconds flat, but is now 14 as the bluettoth takes ages to initialise :/ great prog.

Nox