The Official OC (OverClocking) Thread!

Hey Cap...the athlon 64's are not the best when it comes to overclocking either. Check out tomshardware.com and see some of the older reviews. The Sempron's are not bad at overclocking with the sockect 754 borards. See if those meet your needs.

 

Thank you for the heads up on the AMD64 and overclocking. I am also learnign that the AMD64 is not comaptiable with alot of the older games Like UT99 and such and has some memory conflicts ( I still have to confirm this though) but I have a friend of mine who just reported his overclocking status with his AMD 64 and he is happy with the way it oc'ed but is sad that the voltage was locked and he couldn't raise it to push the chip faster. I am sure someone in here has upgraded to this chip, so Imma surf the forums and see what I find

 

Cap what do you do with your computer? I overclocked my celeron pretty well. Sempron would do you nicely you can overclock that pretty far. The 64 bit chips just have a lot of limitations to them...check out asus boards...they allow you a lot more leeway in terms of tweaking voltage and what not. Also believe it or not cheapy jetways are good too.

 

hi Capncrash

i am limited by the same chipset i believe, what i did to overcome these problems, was to lower my memory speed in the bios to 166, and then increase the fsb up to 200 in the bios , as the ram and fsb are in sync on this board it returned thr ram to its normal running speed and allowed for a bit more overclock without pushing the memory out of its stable running speed.

with my system running at 2299 my memory is only clocked to 418mhz so well within its limits and 100% stable, i hope this helps =o)

 

I have an AMD64 3000+ that is 1.8 stock. I've seen some benchmarks that show the 3000+ keeping up with a P4 3.2 Extreme Edition and beating Intel in video compression. Mine is oc'd to 2.25 with no mem or voltage tweaks. The voltage for mem and cpu are adjustable if I desire but they seem to work in auto. So basically mine screams, oc'd easily, and runs cool at 45 degrees under load. The ASUS mobo has some really cool oc features and sli technology if you play a lot of games. You might want to google "amd64 vs. intel" and then make your decision. I am not at all disapointed that I went with AMD.

Good Luck!

 

Those Asus boards are so great for overclocking they make it a snap. Have you benchmarked the system with sysoft sandra to see where you compare against other systems?? You must scream

 

No, I have not. But I think I just might do that. I'll let you know the results. May not be for a couple of days though. I'm working a 15 day stretch @ 12 hours a day so I'm kinda tired when I get home.

 

me too thank god for afterdawn...it keeps me grounded on these long 12 hour days

 

overclocking limitations are mostly due to mobo and memory rather than cpu of course some cpu´s can go futher than others.

[bold]remember overclocking is not just about the numbers[/bold]

 

Where do you work 12 hours nohelpme? I make beer cans.

 

Hey,

I was wondering can a MSI-MS 6309 be overclocked? Here is a report from everest home edition under overclock.

CPU Properties:
CPU Type Intel Pentium IIIE
CPU Alias Coppermine, CuMine, A80526
CPU Stepping cB0
CPUID Revision 00000683h

CPU Speed:
CPU Clock 733.49 MHz (original: 733 MHz)
CPU Multiplier 5.5x
CPU FSB 133.36 MHz (original: 133 MHz)
Memory Bus 100.02 MHz

CPU Cache:
L1 Code Cache 16 KB
L1 Data Cache 16 KB
L2 Cache 256 KB (On-Die, ATC, Full-Speed)

Motherboard Properties:
Motherboard ID 62-0725-000000-00101111-071595-V694V686$1V133001_A6309MS V1.7 072500
Motherboard Name MSI MS-6309 (1 ISA, 5 PCI, 1 AGP, 1 AMR, 3 DIMM)

Chipset Properties:
Motherboard Chipset VIA VT82C694X Apollo Pro133A
Memory Timings 3-3-3-6 (CL-RCD-RP-RAS)

SPD Memory Modules:
DIMM1 64 MB PC133 SDRAM (3.0-3-3-6 @ 133 MHz)
DIMM2: EC36P403 128 MB PC133 SDRAM (3.0-3-3-6 @ 133 MHz)

BIOS Properties:
System BIOS Date 07/25/00
Video BIOS Date 10/23/96
DMI BIOS Version 62710

Graphics Processor Properties:
Video Adapter Trident 3Dimage 9880 (Blade 3D)
GPU Code Name 3Dimage 9880 (PCI 1023 / 9880, Rev 3A)
GPU Clock 4 MHz
Memory Clock 4 MHz

 

can i overclock my

AMD Duron 896 mhz processor

 

P4 3.2Ghz 540j socket 775
ABIT Fatal1ty AA8XE Socket 775 Intel 925XE
PQI 1024mb 533mhz pc4200 DDR2 dual channel
XFX 6600GT

Im new to overclocking but i think i have a good setup, the stuff listed above + about 10 fans total including aftermarket heatsink/fan on the GPU + arctic silver 5 on cpu and gpu. Anybody have any idea how far i could safely push the cpu, ram, and gpu, dont forget ive never OC'ed before but i cant wait to get into it!
Any help would be great. Thanks.

 

ANYONE OVERCLOCK CELERON D'S???

 

I noticed that one of you has 'Leadtek WinFast A6200-TD128 unlocked to 8pipelines' I have that card ( yes it is deffinatly the 8pipeline one) but can't seem to unlock the extra four. Riva Tuner jus says that I have 4 pipelines. Any help.

Oh and to everyone, How do I O/C my AMD Athlon 64 3000+ (standard 2.0ghz) I'm running a Leadtek NF3250K8AA/NF3250GK8AA mobo and in bios it has all the HT speed etc. I understand clocking on normal chips, but on this one because of some reviews I have read I haven't fully understood it. Like whether I need to increase HT and drop FSB or the other way round. I don't want to clock too much, but getting it .2-.5 more would be nice.

Cheers

 

Don't know about the 8 pipeline stuff.
For the 3000+, your htt multiplier should be auto or 5. This takes the fsb from 200 and multiplies it to 1000. If you want to oc the chip, raise the fsb (mine is at 250). Multiply that by your cpu multiplier (mine is 9) and I get 2250 mhz. Now my htt times 5 = 1250 and I've heard that you want to keep it under or at 1000 for stability reasons. Lower the htt mult. to 4 and you are back at 1000. Try voltage or mem tweaks if you want to go more. My chips max speed in ASUS Probe is 3700 mhz, so there is room to grow. Just that other things start to cause problems, such as memory.

Good luck!

 

Ok thats cool. I did increase voltage, but with the hot weather we've been having it was gettin rather hot, so I dropped down by .1v and it dropped temp by 10degC (nice ).

I'll try tweaking it in little bits, thats cool though. Cheers for the info.

 

HI.. just like to no wats the highest CPU Vcore som has had on a amd 2800+
and can any one help me with a site that can remove the multiplier... iv looked evry were..

 

Well I have an AMD Athlon 64 3000+ and the highest VCore sugested on sites was 1.7v but make sure you stay south of 2.0V.
If you are clocking your VCore MAKE SURE you have VERY good cooling, I put my VCore up by 0.1v and it increased by about 10deg C running idle, and I have a decent cooler, along with many case coolers keeping the whole of my rig at low temps.

---EDIT---
Also on the note of my CPU I am now running it at 2.25ghz by increasing the speed to 225mhz and keeping the HT on standard (x4...not a classey mobo )

 

i hav a Thermaltake BigWater water cooler.. i hav the VC at 1.725 and at FSB at 195 and it ruin at 30 - 40C the default CV is 1.625 but i wanna go the next step..
wat should i do.. the ram V+ its 2.4 PQI 1gb daul.. 2.5-3-3-7