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- Mar 21, 2005
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- Boston, MA, usa
Well as the title suggests I'm a total noob when it comes to overclocking. I built a really nice computer some time ago with the wonderful help of everyone on this board (THX BTW) and then promptly crawled back into the cave that is my studies and haven't surfaced to breath 'til now. All that said, I've used Guru to oc a bit, though not very much. My numbers are not anything like the ones I've seen around here today, so I thought I could get some fine tuning advice specific to my chip and board (E6600 and the AW9D) from you guys/gals, the experts, so to speak. Here are my cpu-z scores and most makes sense to me, though the clock and multi, look like they should be better. Anyone have some advice? Keep in mind my noobdom, I need to know the best way to change these settings with this MoBo, up 'til now it's all through windows based Guru progie.
Cpu-z 1.38 Details:
Proc. Box
Voltage 1.213 v
Clocks [box]:
Core Speed= 2631.0
Multiplier= x 9.0
Bus Speed= 292.3 (oc'd from normal 272)
Rated FSB_ 1169.3
Mem. Tab:
General [Box]:
Type= DD2
Size= 2048 MBytes
Channels #= Dual
Timings [box]
Freq.= 365.4 MHz
FSB: DRAM= 4:5
CAS # Lat.= 5 clks
Delay= 5
RAS# Precharge= 5
cycle time (Tras)= 25 clks
Bank Cycle= 21 clks
I'm sure this is somewhat incomplete but as I'm unaware how to upload the sreenies on this page it will have to do. Does any of this look wonky or out of place? Is the Multi suppose to be lower? Aren't the bus speeds suppose to be in the 400s or am I totally confused on the subject. Also is there a new bios for the Aw9D, I heard a little scuttlebutt about one, but as I mentioned earlier I've been in a hole for a while. Thank you for the attention, I'm slowly getting the hang of this.
-B
Edit: I reread this post and it didn't seem like my questions were very clear, so... Can I, as a first time OCer just boost the Guru bus setting to get more out of this chip? I know the most of you use Bios level OCing but as I'm still a little new to this I was wondering if Guru was maybe a safer version. To those of you who use it, do you just crank up the Bus speed incrementally until you get an error or do you throw it up to a pre-determined number and then test it from there? Is there a need to change the other settings, ie; VCore, MCH, DDR2V, etc. or will the bus increase set a ratio that brings the others settings in line with that setting?
Cpu-z 1.38 Details:
Proc. Box
Voltage 1.213 v
Clocks [box]:
Core Speed= 2631.0
Multiplier= x 9.0
Bus Speed= 292.3 (oc'd from normal 272)
Rated FSB_ 1169.3
Mem. Tab:
General [Box]:
Type= DD2
Size= 2048 MBytes
Channels #= Dual
Timings [box]
Freq.= 365.4 MHz
FSB: DRAM= 4:5
CAS # Lat.= 5 clks
Delay= 5
RAS# Precharge= 5
cycle time (Tras)= 25 clks
Bank Cycle= 21 clks
I'm sure this is somewhat incomplete but as I'm unaware how to upload the sreenies on this page it will have to do. Does any of this look wonky or out of place? Is the Multi suppose to be lower? Aren't the bus speeds suppose to be in the 400s or am I totally confused on the subject. Also is there a new bios for the Aw9D, I heard a little scuttlebutt about one, but as I mentioned earlier I've been in a hole for a while. Thank you for the attention, I'm slowly getting the hang of this.
-B
Edit: I reread this post and it didn't seem like my questions were very clear, so... Can I, as a first time OCer just boost the Guru bus setting to get more out of this chip? I know the most of you use Bios level OCing but as I'm still a little new to this I was wondering if Guru was maybe a safer version. To those of you who use it, do you just crank up the Bus speed incrementally until you get an error or do you throw it up to a pre-determined number and then test it from there? Is there a need to change the other settings, ie; VCore, MCH, DDR2V, etc. or will the bus increase set a ratio that brings the others settings in line with that setting?
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