How/Can I overclock this?

[Col.Havoc]

Hi ya, I just got myself a new PC and am a complete newbie to overclocking. I read the tut on the main page but it doesn't answer a lot of stuff, like ratios and such. I was just wondering if someone could tell me how I would go about OC'ing my machine up to around 2.8 ghz. My setup is listed below.


TIA

[mattspalace]

Okay, first 2.8GHz is nothing.. you should do an EASY 3.0GHz.

Okay, so here's what you do..

Boot into your bios, and on the CPU screen, set the following:

250fsb
3:2 ratio
leave the CPU voltage at default for now
bump the DIMM voltage to 2.8
fix the AGP/PCI to 33/66MHz
Just leave the N/B strap set to CPU detect or whatever it is..

That's 3.0GHz right there.

You need to set a 3:2 ratio though, since you're using PC2700. -You need to get at least some PC3200 sometime in the near future.

You shouldn't have to mess with memory speeds or anything since 250 * .66 = 165MHz or 333Mhz DDR.

If you boot and run stable, then come back, and maybe we can get a lil more out of her..

[Col.Havoc]

Problem: I don't think I can change my ratio.

[mattspalace]

Hmmm..well I'm not familiar with that particular board, but you should be able to.

[Col.Havoc]

Originally posted by mattspalace
Hmmm..well I'm not familiar with that particular board, but you should be able to.

Can't seem to find it, nothing in my book either. Damnit, I hope I can change that ratio, if not, that would bite the big one.

[Amorphus]

you could possibly try just upping the dimm voltage to 2.9-3v, 3-4-4-9 timings @ 250fsb....

meh. dunno how well that will work, though, performance-wise. CAS3 usually isn't that great of a performer.