bros, any chance that i can OC more from my mom's PC?

she's using Athlon x2 Windsor 3600+, 1GB 667Mhz kingston valueRAM, Abit K9NS motherboard, stock cooler.

since i'm not that familiar with AMD world, i can only tweak the bus speed at Abit Softmenu in BIOS. now running at 234Mhz x10 = 2.34Ghz with Core temp around 45C.

as for RAM, the timing is 5-5-5-15 (i set auto )



This post has been edited by cloudstrife07: Sep 30 2008, 11:17 PM

yea, using Nforce 550 chipset

now the main prob is there's no adjusting HTlink option in the Abit Softmenu.

only the bus speed, multiplier, PCI-E bus speed (which is not necessary) and voltage control (Vcore, NB Core etc)

so now, whenever i up the bus speed 235mhz and above, mobo will hang and have to do change jumper, open CMOS batt and cut off the power for around 5mins

oh thanks guys

now im at 2.5Ghz already



This post has been edited by cloudstrife07: Oct 1 2008, 12:59 AM

priming right now. it's just that i felt so excited that i post the CPU-Z screeny 1st

higher vcore?i wish i can do that though. on stock cooler now and the RAMs are Kingston ValueRAM

btw which is better for stability test?OCCT or prime95?

This post has been edited by cloudstrife07: Oct 1 2008, 01:08 AM

ic..so prime95 is the toughest for AMD while OCCT is for intel Intel Burn Test is for Intel

1.9~2.1v eh..i tried playing around with the setting just now to get 2.6Ghz.but it seems the BIOS failed to boot. tried to up vcore oso no use. issit because of the RAM voltage not enough?

now back to 2.54Ghz. doing priming.

This post has been edited by cloudstrife07: Oct 1 2008, 03:10 AM

btw guys, how many hours should i run prime95 before i can conclude that the machine is stable?

8 hours?

i guess i should cut it into 1/2 lah. 4 hours only. since my lil' bro and sis want to use the PC

i lol'ed

anyway, i don't quite understand the RAM part.

at the DRAM config, there's DDR2 800/667/ 533/400 etc, then there's the timing and the command rate, and down there got some uber stuffs that i don't know.

mine currently set (manually) at DDR2 533, and the timing is 5-5-5-15 while the command rate is 2T.

the DDR2 533 is the RAM divider right?

let say i want to OC past 250mhz, should i play around with the RAM configs again and up my vcore/vdimm or just up the vcore/vdimm?

before this i try to up the vcore to 1.300V and the vdimm to 1.9V (the proc bus is 260mhz, HTT multi X3) but the PC won't boot.

guess that's the limit of my proc eh?

This post has been edited by cloudstrife07: Oct 1 2008, 05:26 PM

oops, now that u mention it, i forgot to edit the siggy. that crucial is for my future intel rig project i copypaste wrongly

the spec is like in (edited) siggy:

AMD Athlon X2 3600+ 2.0Ghz@2.51Ghz
Abit KN9S mobo Nforce 550 Chipset
1GB KVR DDR2 667Mhz
160GB+640GB WD HDD
Colorful ATi Radeon X1650XT DDR3 512MB
22" Samsung 226BW
Windows Vista Ultimate SP1
Coolermaster Extreme Power 430W PSU

This post has been edited by cloudstrife07: Oct 1 2008, 05:39 PM

u mean the mobo is holding me back eh since i pumped more vcore yesterday up to 1.350V also the system won't boot..

i use psu calculator, my psu gave me more than adequate watts (assuming the extremepower 430W has 70% efficiency)

perhaps it's my proc then

from DDR2 667Mhz down to 533Mhz

266Mhzx2=533Mhz

HTT increase from 200Mhz to 251Mhz = 51Mhz increase

so 266Mhz+51Mhz = 317Mhz

317Mhz x2 = 634Mhz DDR2 speed, which is still below the rated RAM speed of 667Mhz

issit correct?

This post has been edited by cloudstrife07: Oct 1 2008, 06:02 PM

ugh, ok

ah thanks bro no wonder im a bit clueless..the HTT have to multiply by 10 then only can divide by 8. i forgot to multiply

btw here's the screeny:



btw, i'm thinking of beating goldfries's record. he's using stock cooler and valuerams too @2.509Ghz

This post has been edited by cloudstrife07: Oct 1 2008, 06:48 PM

change to 2T eh.

for >2.5Ghz, should i up the vcore + vdimm or vcore only?since the RAM hasn't reach it's rated speed yet. how bout vNB etc etc?

pushing my luck

This post has been edited by cloudstrife07: Oct 1 2008, 06:57 PM

eh AMD don't have ke?ok

up vdimm eh.ok.

it's just that this KN9S mobo is a bit pain in the ass. sometimes i reset the cmos jumper, take out the cmos battery oso this thing dont want to reset the BIOS

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Added on October 1, 2008, 7:11 pmanyway, what's the use of MCP55P voltage and HyperTransport voltage?

This post has been edited by cloudstrife07: Oct 1 2008, 07:11 PM

btw what's the max safe voltage for KVR RAMs and Windsor procs?

thanks buddy

my target now is 2.6Ghz. let see if i'm able to go that far using stock cooler.

update: unable to go more than 255Mhz HTT. pumped vcore up to 1.350 and vDIMM up to 1.95 also cannot boot. perhaps it's my proc limiting me

now primetesting @2.54Ghz in windows (2.55Ghz in BIOS).

This post has been edited by cloudstrife07: Oct 1 2008, 08:21 PM

this is interesting. i've never heard putting RAM in diff slots helped OC

will try it later after i succeeded in hyperPi 32M

ain't that a bit dangerous?2.2V on KVR?

and also, u got red scorpion mah, me stock cooler only

maybe i should follow the settings you put on your siggy

how much can u push using the stock cooler?

mind telling me your vcore, vdimm and ram timing as well?maybe i can make that as reference