3D Mark 2003 (i know)

[Razorfish]

It hung....

[danrok]

Excellent!

You should be able to continue increasing your FSB little by little. It's a good idea to use the CMOS Reloaded feature on your board - save some stable settings to one of the slots before pushing things too hard.

[danrok]

Cross-posted!

[danrok]

Originally Posted by Razorfish

It hung....

What are the actual memory timings as reported by CPU-Z or some tool?

[danrok]

Now that you have the CPU/Memory ratio set to 1:1 you should be able to o/c. But there may be some other tweaking needed. I think you are in the clear now and should be able to get it running at a higher FSB before long.

[surlyjoe]

heh, with that setup 200 fsb should be just a click away

you may have to wire the pins to drop the multiplier a notch though...

[danrok]

I think you can lower the multi, but not increase it.

What voltage is the CPU at Razorfish?

[Razorfish]

sorry, ive just been dealing with a major crisis. Right ill give you the low down, at 170mhz the computer booted but hung during 3dmark03, where can i get cpu-z?

[danrok]

Get CPU-Z here:
http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php

[Razorfish]

Voltage is also set to automatic, you think i should set it myself instead of it being auto. i think 1.65v is standard but id have to check.

[danrok]

Set voltage manually, start at 1.7v.

My Athlon 3000 is set at 1.825v, for example.

I think you have water cooling, so don't worry about higher voltages. 1.8v is fine with air cooling anyhow.

[Razorfish]

Hey CPU-Z is cool, here are the settings my memory is set to

2.5,3,3,7 respectivly straight from cpu-z

ive also noticed my FSB is 167 but it 166 in the bios.

[danrok]

Originally Posted by Razorfish

Hey CPU-Z is cool, here are the settings my memory is set to

2.5,3,3,7 respectivly straight from cpu-z

Do these timings match the default timings specified for your memory? They look about right to me. You may need to check this at crucial's website.

ive also noticed my FSB is 167 but it 166 in the bios.

Don't worry about that, it's quite normal.

Some CPU's need more voltage than others to o/c. Mine needs a lot for example. You may also need to set it to 1.8v before it becomes stable - it's just luck of the draw.

[Razorfish]

Right dont know if this is just me but i swear after changing my cpu voltage to 1.7 that windows just loaded faster???

[danrok]

That is possible. But, it's a good sign. The system wasn't 100% stable before, so windows took longer to load because it was struggling. Now that you have given it more juice things are more stable,

[Razorfish]

I cant reduce my multiplier, ill have to read up on this wire link mod.

[danrok]

Becuase you CPU has a FSB of 166mhz (the same as mine). It will most likely need extra voltage to get it up to 200mhz.

So, you'll have to carry out a little test to see how high the FSB will go with extra voltage and learn the limits of the components you have.

[danrok]

Originally Posted by Razorfish

I cant reduce my multiplier, ill have to read up on this wire link mod.

But have you managed to get it stable at a higher FSB with more voltage on the CPU?

[surlyjoe]

about this time you need too drop the multiplier to geta feeling for your boards/cards/ram top end. go with 9 or 10x and see how high you can get the mems to run, (I assume the board has agp/pci lock enabled) then start cranking up the multiplier/voltage until it crashes and back off the FSB till it does'nt This will give you chip speed, you'll just have to tweak it stable from there

[danrok]

He's saying that he can't lower the multiplier. I thought you could on a new locked athlon. Can someone confirm this?