Overclocking New Rig

Plague · Post by **Plague** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 10:45 pm

Ok, since this is only the second time that I've ever overclocked a computer... somebody tell me how I'm doing.

Before:

Now:

The voltage in the BIOS is set at 1.525. There is one thing that concerns me. SiSoft Sandra brought this up:

[Edit]Image removed because it was stretching the page and annoying me[/Edit]

It got the CPU and System Temp backwards, but what the heck is that 127C thing! I already checked around the case and nothing seems to be that hot.

STRESSTEST · Post by **STRESSTEST** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 10:49 pm

go to the bios and see what they say. That's the temp

The board may have come with a monitor utility as well on the driver cd. It will tell you temp as well, install it

Plague · Post by **Plague** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 10:55 pm

I didn't see anything in the BIOS that reported that temp. I will check on the motherboard CD to see if there is a monitor utility. I don't remember seeing one when I installed everything though.

[Edit]
Very stable so far, time to go higher...

Vindicator · Post by **Vindicator** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 1:25 pm

Looks nice. Crank it up!

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 1:54 pm

correct me if im wrong......

but SANDRA's Power Temp monitor is the PSU Voltage Regulator temps.

Plague · Post by **Plague** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 12:06 am

Currently running completely stable at 2300Mhz. I'm gonna push it some more when I get back from Texas.

Plague · Post by **Plague** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 6:53 pm

Ok, finally got around to overclocking it some more. I've got it running at 10*240, but it would only run Prime95 Torture Test for 12 minutes at stock voltage. So I put the voltage at 1.525 and it ran for 26 minutes. Should I go to 1.550V or just back it down some?

Capm · Post by **Capm** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 8:33 pm

Well, the more you overclock it, the more you need to cool it. Make sure your temps are in the right range. If you don't have appropriate cooling for the speed you are trying to push it, back it down till you can. Because you could push it to 4Thz for all it matters, but it'd burn up if it wasn't cooled enough. If it is unstable, you may want to increase voltage, but do it in the smallest increments possible until you find the right setting.

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 9:55 pm

And as a rule I wouldn't recommend taking the CPU beyond 110% of default voltage. So - it default is 1.5, then don't take it over 1.65

Plague · Post by **Plague** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 10:40 pm

Temps are fine. It idles around 39C and at load it hits 46C. I'm gonna try one more increment up in voltage and see if that solves the problem.

Plague · Post by **Plague** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 7:00 am

Ok, Vcore is now at 1.550V, and it ran Prime95 for 2 hours without a problem. Max temp was 52C according to MBM5 (I had to use the compensation to get it to read like the BIOS, I thought that kind of weird...) I'll get a benchmark after my friend plays some FarCry.

3Dmark03
2.0Ghz (Stock): 9287
2.2Ghz: 9467
2.4Ghz: 9660

Now to tighten the RAM timings...