I would appreciate some feedback regarding my overclock. I have been feeling as though I am not getting as much performance as I should be from my setup (based upon PC Mark 2002 scores), but then I read a few posts in here that have me thinking that perhaps I am getting as much performance as I can expect. Maybe you all can give me your 2 cents worth.
Here is my setup:
Gigabyte 8-IEXP
P4 2.26 Ghz (533mhz FSB)
512 mb Corsair XMS 3200 memory
Ti4600 Video Card
(2) 120 Gb Western Dig. 7200 rpm hard drives (striped array)
Windows XP Home
I have been running the system overclocked at 2.6 Ghz (using EasyTune [in "easy" mode, since I'm new to overclocking and don't really know what I'm doing yet]) for over a month now with no instability whatsoever, with my cpu temp running around 34 degrees Celsius at idle. My last score for PC Mark 2002 was 13,263 (6320 cpu/5439 memory/ 1504 hard drive).
I have seen other scores on PC Mark's website that made me think I should be getting higher scores, such as 2.26 Ghz CPUs overclocked to 3.0 Ghz+, and memory scores near 6000 (wondering why my memory score isn't higher since I'm using Corsair XMS 3200?).
So what do you think? Am I falling short of where I should be, or should I be happy with what appears to be a very stable if perhaps conservative benchmark?
Also, there are a couple of things that I'm confused about if anyone would care to explain it to me. I don't really understand the "Fixed PCI/AGP Freguency" and "Host/DRAM Clock Ration" settings in the BIOS. Should I have these set at any particular level, or just leave them alone and continue to OC through EasyTune? Also, are there any good web resources you would recommend to me (i.e. beginning overclocking guides, etc.).
Thanks a bunch in advance for any advice you all might be able to offer. I'm new to the forums but spent quite a bit of time browsing through the posts today. You seem like a bright and helpful bunch to me.
Cheers!
Brian
Here is my setup:
Gigabyte 8-IEXP
P4 2.26 Ghz (533mhz FSB)
512 mb Corsair XMS 3200 memory
Ti4600 Video Card
(2) 120 Gb Western Dig. 7200 rpm hard drives (striped array)
Windows XP Home
I have been running the system overclocked at 2.6 Ghz (using EasyTune [in "easy" mode, since I'm new to overclocking and don't really know what I'm doing yet]) for over a month now with no instability whatsoever, with my cpu temp running around 34 degrees Celsius at idle. My last score for PC Mark 2002 was 13,263 (6320 cpu/5439 memory/ 1504 hard drive).
I have seen other scores on PC Mark's website that made me think I should be getting higher scores, such as 2.26 Ghz CPUs overclocked to 3.0 Ghz+, and memory scores near 6000 (wondering why my memory score isn't higher since I'm using Corsair XMS 3200?).
So what do you think? Am I falling short of where I should be, or should I be happy with what appears to be a very stable if perhaps conservative benchmark?
Also, there are a couple of things that I'm confused about if anyone would care to explain it to me. I don't really understand the "Fixed PCI/AGP Freguency" and "Host/DRAM Clock Ration" settings in the BIOS. Should I have these set at any particular level, or just leave them alone and continue to OC through EasyTune? Also, are there any good web resources you would recommend to me (i.e. beginning overclocking guides, etc.).
Thanks a bunch in advance for any advice you all might be able to offer. I'm new to the forums but spent quite a bit of time browsing through the posts today. You seem like a bright and helpful bunch to me.
Cheers!
Brian