Battle_Rattle Posted January 14, 2006 Posted January 14, 2006 Hi all... I'm sitting at an overall Opteron 165 OC of 2430 and I'm decently pleased with it but 2.6-2.7 would be nice. I can't seem to go past 279-285 FSB (I found this limit by isolating the FSB from the CPU speed and Ram.) I'm using a Ultra-D with the 623-3 Bios (all specs below.) Is the fact that I have a dumpy Seagate IDE Hard Drive hooked up holding me back? Should I take "Auto" off of my Ram and LDT settings? Should I go above 1.41v Core volts? Check my stats and realize I have a Si-120 w/ Panaflo that is keeping my CPU load temps at 35c (im actually suspicious of that, so add 10degrees to that value) It was my first computer build but I studied well on how to apply the Arctic Silver 5 (I put a tad more than the size of a grain of rice) In the interest of completeness here are my Genie settings ... FSB Bus Frequency --- 270 LDT/FSB Frequency Ratio --- Auto LDT Bus Transfer Width --- 16 16 CPU/FSB Frequency Ratio --- x9.0 PCI eXpress Frequency --- 100Mhz K8 Cool n Quiet Support --- Disable CPU Vid Startup Value --- 1.4v ---CPU Core Voltage --- 1.41v ---LDT Bus Voltage --- 1.22v ---Chip set Voltage --- 1.52v ---Dram 2.5v Voltage --- 2.88v CPU VID Control --- 1.4v CPU Special Control --- AUTO LDT Voltage Control --- 1.2v Chipset Voltage Control --- 1.5v Dram Voltage Control --- 2.8v Dram +.03v…. --- Disable Mac Lan --- Auto Mac Media Interface --- Pinstrap Machine Mac(NV) Address --- Disable Mac Lan Boot ROM --- Disable Internal Phy Sata ½ --- Enabled Internal Phy Sata ¾ --- Enabled Via 1394 Control --- Enabled Marvell Giga LAN Control --- Enabled RAM Settings Here DRAM Frequency Set --- 180 (DRAM/FSB: 9/10) CPC --- Enabled Cas Latency Control (Tcl) --- Auto Ras to Cas Delay (Trcd) --- Auto Min Ras # Active Time (Tras) --- Auto Row Precharge Time (Trp) --- Auto Row Cycle Time (Trc) --- 07 Bus Clocks Row Refresh Cyc Time (Trfc) --- Auto Row to Row Delay (Trrd) --- 02 Bus Clocks Write Recovery Time (Twr) --- 02 Bus Clocks Write to Read Delay (Twtr) --- 02 Bus Clocks Read to Write Delay (Trwt) --- 03 Bus Clocks Refresh Period (Tret) --- 3120 Cycles Write CAS Latency (Twcl) --- Auto Dram Bank Interleave --- Enabled DQS Control --- Auto DQS Value --- 0 DRAM Drive Strength --- Auto DRAM Data Strength --- Auto Max Async Latency --- Auto DRAM Response Time --- Normal Read Preamble Time --- Auto Idle Cycle Limit --- 256 Cycles Dynamic Counter --- Disable R/W Queue Bypass --- 16x Bypass Max --- 07x 32 Byte Granularity --- Disable (4 bursts) THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME! I DO APPRECIATE IT! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neuroff Posted January 15, 2006 Posted January 15, 2006 You probably have to raise VCore Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
operaman Posted January 15, 2006 Posted January 15, 2006 Run the 704-2BT and put the RAM in the orange slots. Bump up the chipset voltage to a nice 1.7. I am getting 2520 running a 9/10 RAM divider at stock volts with the stock HSF from AMD primed. Also your RAM timings are way too tight for what you are realistically going to get. Back it off to 3-3-3-8 or even 3-4-4-8. The latency does not really help or hurt at this point. The A64 wants more bandwidth and latency is a non-issue. Try those things. Then run dual super pi for 30 minutes (32M) and then start dual priming. You should be good to go. When necessary then bump up the cpu voltage in small chunks if you need it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest laydback Posted January 15, 2006 Posted January 15, 2006 We need to see a A64 Tweaker screenie. Since you left lots of settings to AUTO. We need to actually know what setting is actually in use. Defintaly lower your LDT multi from AUTO to 4x or even 3x. 35c under full load isn't bad, bump up the vcore. Also search around the forum for other users with a similar setup and see what that has to offer. Take care. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battle_Rattle Posted January 15, 2006 Posted January 15, 2006 Ok sweet.... Im at 2600Mhz and PC4200 now.... I changed 4 things... 1) I upped Vcore to 1.45v 2) I changed LDT multi from "auto" to x3 3) I took Dram timings off auto and put in my stock Mushkin timings of 3-4-3-8 4) I put Dram CPC to 2t Instant mobo FSB gain from 285 to 300 (I stopped at 300 because I was so damn surprised and I wanted to test! lol) I have to think that it was the LDT multi on "auto" that was giving me problems... I'll isolate that later. I think i got it in my head that you can keep it on auto from the DFI OC guide. Temps never surpassed 37c ...again I'm suspicious of that. One last thing though.... what test would you guys do to ASSURE stability for a dual core. Dual small-fft prime for 12-18 hours or so? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
operaman Posted January 15, 2006 Posted January 15, 2006 The 2t can be changed. You were running at well over 1000 HTT. Remember this: Rule of thumb on HTT is never go over 1000. SO for example on Auto you were at 5 X 285... WOW... That is high. I may be wrong but I always to ake the multi there( 1,2, 2.5,3,4,5,) and multiply that by my FSB. Generally speaking I just lower it to 3X as a force of habit to get things going. Try that and use 1T and I betr you will likey... Good luckwith your oc man. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
operaman Posted January 15, 2006 Posted January 15, 2006 One last thing though.... what test would you guys do to ASSURE stability for a dual core. Dual small-fft prime for 12-18 hours or so? Start with dual Super pi at 32M. Then once you get a stable run of that run dual instances of prime. 12-18 hours should be good. I run for 24 hours but I am a stability freak so there ya go.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battle_Rattle Posted January 15, 2006 Posted January 15, 2006 Thanks guys...ill do long testing soon... UPdate >>> Running a 180 (9/10) divider and 1t does indeed seems to work (no memtest failures through 1 full test and 5 passes of test 5. So memory is short steady @ 261 DDR522 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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