[chrisk19938]

looking for a little help on cranking this up a bit. I have never Oc'ed any of my pc's before so i am looking for some help so i dont screw it up.

system spec

GA-K8NF-9
AMD 64 3500+ wincester
w/ thermalright xp120
7 case fans
4x 512 XMS Corsair PC4000(500mhz)
6800 GT pci-express vid
WD Raptor
PC power & Cooling Turbo 510 express PSU

internal case temp is about 20-22deg c, 68-72deg f
cpu is at like 33deg c (idle I think)

[chrisk19938]

isn't anyone willing to help me out....

or at elast point me to some VERY good writeups..

[jonspd]

Overclocking really isnt that hard it's kinda like trial and error. Having 1gb stick's my hurt you 1:1 overclock so you maight have to use a ratio on your ram\cpu.

Pretty simple all you really should have to do is set you fsb up a few mhz and test with prime95 to check stability.

[chrisk19938]

i have 4 512 corsair xms pc-4000 500mhz sticks

so just up the fsb a bit. Hmm how far shoudl i go. Dont mess with the voltages or anything...

[jonspd]

Do you have cpu-z and prime?

If you can you take a screenie of you system info with cpu-z and them run prime for a few min's and see what your full load temp is?

I would start @ around 220fsb if everything look's ok.

[glock19owner]

That one nice rig for someone that has never OCed a system before...very nice...

If jonspd can not help you out...which I am sure he can without any issues...you can look me up on AOHELL for some realtime Q&A's...

[chrisk19938]

thanx. this is only the second system i have built. my first got passed over to the wife for a while. and well I just gave her my old system a pent4 2g machine with 1gig memory. I wanted to beable to play games etc...the old machine only had a 4x agp slot. So yeah i went as little nuts.

back to the subject.

I did run prime 95 all night all tests passed. I also DO have cpuz but it dosn't tell you temps.

here is a report using everest home edition.

I dont understand the temps. I went to my bios and it said tonight when in the bios area idleing(what else can you do while in bios) it was at 29deg c.

other thing is I dont understand WHY my memory is reading at 250mhz when it is 500mhz memory.


CPU Properties:
CPU Type AMD Athlon 64 3500+
CPU Alias Winchester S939
CPU Stepping DH7-D0
CPUID CPU Name AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+
CPUID Revision 00010FF0h

CPU Speed:
CPU Clock 2211.06 MHz
CPU Multiplier 11.0x
CPU FSB 201.01 MHz (original: 200 MHz)
Memory Bus 157.93 MHz

CPU Cache:
L1 Code Cache 64 KB (Parity)
L1 Data Cache 64 KB (ECC)
L2 Cache 512 KB (On-Die, ECC, Full-Speed)

Motherboard Properties:
Motherboard ID 11/20/2004-NF-CK804-6A61FG0AC-00
Motherboard Name Unknown

Chipset Properties:
Motherboard Chipset nVIDIA nForce4, AMD Hammer
Memory Timings 3-3-3-7 (CL-RCD-RP-RAS)
Command Rate (CR) 2T

SPD Memory Modules:
DIMM1: Corsair CMX512-4000 512 MB PC4000 DDR SDRAM (3.0-4-4-10 @ 250 MHz)
DIMM2: Corsair CMX512-4000 512 MB PC4000 DDR SDRAM (3.0-4-4-10 @ 250 MHz)
DIMM3: Corsair CMX512-4000 512 MB PC4000 DDR SDRAM (3.0-4-4-10 @ 250 MHz)
DIMM4: Corsair CMX512-4000 512 MB PC4000 DDR SDRAM (3.0-4-4-10 @ 250 MHz)

BIOS Properties:
System BIOS Date 11/20/04
Video BIOS Date 09/03/04
Award BIOS Type Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
Award BIOS Message GA-K8NF-9 F1
DMI BIOS Version F1

Graphics Processor Properties:
DirectX 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c)
Video Adapter nVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra PCI-E
GPU Code Name NV40UPCX (PCI Express x16 10DE / 00F9, Rev A2)
GPU Clock 351 MHz
Memory Clock 501 MHz

Sensor Properties:
Tsystem 29 °C (84 °F)
Tcpu 69 °C (156 °F)
Taux 25 °C (77 °F)
Fcpu 1017 RPM
Vcore 1.39 V
V2.5 2.64 V
Vio 3.33 V

[chrisk19938]

well i come to find out that 69deg c temp is a second sensor my bios shows the 29deg c

hmm where is this other sensor??? i cant find ANYTHIN Gthat is 160deg F on my box

[austinbmxnig]

You're RAM is fine, ddr500 runs at 250mhz

[Motley]

I've almost got the same setup you have. see sig.

I'm prime stable at these settings...

CPU: 11x230 (A64's don't like half multi's)
1.45v
RAM: 6,4,4,2.5 1T
2.7v

CPU running at 2510 MHz
RAM running at 230 MHz

One thing I noticed on your system, you should probably update your Gigabyte BIOS to latest.

[chrisk19938]

Originally Posted by Motley

One thing I noticed on your system, you should probably update your Gigabyte BIOS to latest.

well according the gigabyte I have the latest bios. heck the board has only been out a few weeks.

[chrisk19938]

checked the bios I DID need to update it. and I also watched my temps also.

idle 29-30deg C and at 100% load for 20 minutes using prime 95 the temp only reached 40deg C.

how long should i run prime 95 for to see how high the temps would go? looks like i have PLENTY of room for Oc'ing.

[chrisk19938]

also JUST ran my system like this for 20 minutes and idle was 31 deg C the 100% cpu usag was Again 40deg C the cpu fan is now running at 1225rpms and was running 1100-1125rpm in stock setup