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Offline Modas

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How much overclock
« on: February 20, 2006, 02:40:31 PM »
Hey  Guys -

I'm running an AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice 1GHz FSB on an EPOX EP-9NPA+SLI NF4SLI 939 mother board with a XFX|GF 6800GS 256MB video card.

I just started playing around with the overclocking on my system and have it OC'd the CPU to 2.3 GHz (from the stock 2.0) and so far everything seems to be running ok.  The CPU temp doesn't get above 91°F even under load.

So a couple of questions...

1.  How far can I overclock this thing do you think before I start running into trouble?

2.  The specifications for the AMD cpu says the Hypertransport is supported.  What should I actually use in my BIOS?  1X, 2X (400 Mhz) 3X (600) 4x (800) or 5X (1000 MhZ)

Thanks!

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« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2006, 02:54:48 PM »
i have a 3800 now but i got 2.4 out of my 3200 stable     2.5 unstable all this was on a abit mobo and it was water cooled my        3800+ is @ 2.749 stable so far from 2.4 stock   good luck

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« Reply #2 on: February 20, 2006, 03:34:29 PM »
I have the same CPU (venice) I've had it up as far as 2500.
It started getting iffy at 2600, and crashed hard at 3k.

Currently running at 2400 just because it kept system temps a bit lower.
With CPU fan at 80 % I'm running at  29/31 degrees.

btw I'm running the 5x HT with no apparent problems.

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« Reply #3 on: February 20, 2006, 03:37:22 PM »
Do you need to overclock it?  If with whatever the most graphically intensive situation you get into gives you enough frames per second, you are fine.  Do you get 30-40 fps in a furball near the ground?  Then I wouldn't bother overclocking.

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« Reply #4 on: February 20, 2006, 03:41:49 PM »
Just keep gradually notching it up until stability becomes an issue. Upping your core voltage increases your stability, up to a point. Eventually this leads to damaged processors (best case: clock it down, worst case: you cook it).

Brooke has a good point though, if you're already perfectly smooth in dense, low alt furballs... is it really worth the time and risk of a damaged or fried cpu? (personally... I say yes. However, I'm a bad role model, and I break my toys often)

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« Reply #5 on: February 20, 2006, 09:07:28 PM »
on the overclock.net boards , people are getting 2.5ghz stable on air 24/7 . with water ive seen 2.7 with a good chip . I would say 2.3 is all you will get stable without some vcore added .

 As far as HTT goes you have to try to keep it as close to 1000 as possible , my htt becomes unstable @ 1080 so their is some wiggle room . Say your running a 250fsb , your htt should be set @ 800 or 4X .  4x250 = 1000htt .  I'm guessing your @ 230X10 for 2300mhz?   230X5 = 1150htt , that will prolly cause stability problems under prime95 after  8 or so hours .

 Is  that @ 1.4 vcore stock? Ive ran mine up to 1.6v on water , on air i wouldnt go over 1.525V , your temps really dictate how far you can go , some chip are better than others . Mine runs (265X11) 2915mhz 24/7 from 2200mhz with only 1.5v and (273X11)  3003mhz with 1.55v , so you might get lucky and not need to go very far.  

Other things you might have to do are, lossen your memory timings when the fsb gets higher , that depends on how good your ram is. With my corsair xms it needed vdimm voltage at anything over 220 fsb, corsair defaults to 2.65v , but likes 2.85 for higher fsb's.   You might come to the point where you need the memory divider to keep the fsb on the cpu high , but run your ram down closer to spec .   38