p3 800eb, bios settings???

[tony]

Hay people, I just got my new mobo and i was wondering what the best settings might be- i have a asus cusl2-c BP, i bought 2 128meg pc133sticks of micron cl2 mem, i got the fsb at 150 and i am running at 1.80vcore, cpu is p3800eb. Its nice and stable at 900 but I would like to push it up alittle more while staying stable, its the main pc in the house so you now everyone is on it, temps are staying around 34c at idel and 52c under load, not too much cooling yet
1 big hsf, 2 120 mm fan fornt and back of box, best ideas would be a great help thanks T.

[Door Knob]

I got the same processor and motherboard as you (pretty much, cusl2). I have a feeling that your ram will be reaching its max pretty soon. You will have three basic options here.

1. Leave it at the highest stable fsb and cas2 (probably maxing you out at around where you already are).

2. Change the cas latency from 2 to 3. This will alow you to bump the fsb higher than at cas2 settings (possibly up to the 160 range) but will probably give you the worst performance of the three.

3. Set the ratio in bios to 133:100:33 and leave your ram at cas2. This will run your ram as overclocked pc100. This will allow you to keep raising the fsb and get the most out of your processor.

The highest performance setup that have with your hardware is run your ram as pc133 cas2 and have the fsb around 155 (or higher till you loose stability). The extra memory bandwidth will more than make up for the lack in mhz that you could get with other setups. This is how I run mine. I will change it over to the first option that I discussed when I go to extreme cooling (water and pelt).

Tips...

Did you burn in your chip? I did that and have no problems running at 160fsb and with 1.75 volts. Probably want better cooling on the processor, (hsf size doesn't always matter). Get a good name brand hsf (alpha, globwin, vantec, etc) with a high cfm fan along with some artic silver.

For the family computer I would strongly suggest leaving your settings at what they are at now. Maybe keep bumping up the fsb till you loose ram stability.

Good Luck and happy overclocking.