Overclockery Question

[EternityEight]

Alright

 

I finally got and built my pc (w00t) and its running well ..... when i first set it up my 2500 barton was at 1100 mhz .... but i incremented the fsb to 166 mhz , i.e what its meant to be; the system posted as a 2500+

 

so, after i was satisified with my temps, i began to overclock, increment the fsb , 4mhz at at time, i got it up to 200*11; i.e a 3200+

At the moment i get around 45*C temps under full load, so i think i still have a bit of headroom for more overclocking.

 

now my question is this-- what do i do to overclock the system further, ideally id like to have the fsb at 200mhz because then it is sychrnonous with my corsair XMS3200 RAM, but if i up the multiplier, i will be doing a 100mhz jump each time (i think it only increments in .5s no? )

 

So how do i go further: will i have to lower the fsb, up the multilplier, and then up the fsb again, or can i just up the multiplier bit by bit

 

my specs:

 

A7n8X-Deluxe Rev2.0 bios 1006

Barton 2500 @ 200*11 w/ Aero7+ and Ceramique @ 45*C full load

Radeon 9600PRO (not o/ced yet)

512Mb Dual Channel XMS pc3200 Corsair RAM

120Gb SATA Drive

2 rear Intake fans.

Case temp is around 35*c

 

 

 

Thanks for your help

 

Pete

Edited October 18, 2003 by EternityEight

[EternityEight]

Ah, I was just larking about in the BIOS and i saw that the optiuon to change the multiplier was ghosted out; will i need to flash the BIOS to be allowed to change the multi?; bearing in mind the above specs

 

Thanks

[fubar8358]

you should be able to change the multi with no problem i have the same board same proc and i can adjust fsb and multi with no problem

[EternityEight]

Yeah, i wasnt looking that carefully at the time..... ill probably find some way around it ....id look now but im in the middle of d/l

[ne1n]

i was just wondering. what does flashing bios mean? sorry but i have heard the term and i want to know what exactly it means. thanks

[Ziggy54354]

you can probably raise your fsb some more if you want. Ive got my corsair and proc running 209 sync.

[bishop245]

i was just wondering. what does flashing bios mean? sorry but i have heard the term and i want to know what exactly it means. thanks

flashing the bios is just updating them like updating a drive though if something goes wrong then its RMA time for the mobo or if your lucky you can try the flash again and make it work i think

[andrusk]

The reason the multi would be greyed out is becuase you have to set the options to user difined and stuff like that. Play around with it for a while, youll figure it out.