Hello everyone 
I'm new to overclocking. Here's my deal: I'll be building my new gaming rig in about a month or two at most. It will be A64 3500+ on that new MSI Neo2 that isnt out yet. I'm going to want to do some overclocking with it, but since I have very little experiance with O/C I figured I should first practice on my cheaper hardware I have now, so I did.
Right now I'm running:
AMD Duron 1.8GHz
ASUS A7V266-E
768MB RAM (Crucial, PC2100 if I remember correctly)
So, my goal was to experiment with overclocking to get some experiance and try and get my Duron 1.8 to run at 2.0GHz. I was reading a lot on the net where people with the Duron 1.6 where getting their's up to 2.3GHz - 2.5GHz range!! So I figured it would be no problem to hit only 2.0GHz (my goal) with my Duron 1.8... NOT!
My Default Settings:
CPU:System Frequency Multiple [13.5x]
System/PCI Frequency (MHz) [133/33]
System/SDRAM Frequency Ratio [Auto]
CPU Vcore [1.65V]
Multi is locked, cant change that. So in order to get to my goal of 2.0GHz the ONLY thing I did was increase the System/PCI Frequency from 133/33 to 149/37, one MHz at a time. This brought me right up to 2.0GHz, just as I wanted!
So here where my O/C settings at that time:
CPU:System Frequency Multiple [13.5x]
System/PCI Frequency (MHz) [149/37]
System/SDRAM Frequency Ratio [Auto]
CPU Vcore [1.65V]
With these settings I was able to boot into Windows and see that it was indeed runing @ 2.0GHz. So I started to run Sandra CPU benchmark to see how stable it was before I started pushing it up anymore... it wouldnt run for longer than 2 minutes after the Benchmark would start, just kept shutting down
I figured the Vcore was too low, since I never changed it and left it at 1.65V the whole time, so I changed it all the way up to 1.85V.
So now my O/C settings were at:
CPU:System Frequency Multiple [13.5x]
System/PCI Frequency (MHz) [149/37]
System/SDRAM Frequency Ratio [Auto]
CPU Vcore [1.85V]
Still, no luck... kept on crashing very shortly after I would start the bench! (I did not just go from 1.65V to 1.85V in one jump) After it was still crashing with the 1.85V Vcore I just gave up and put it back down to the 1.8GHz (default) settings. I dont know what to do!
I know its not a temperature issue... the hottest the CPU ever got was when I ran a quick 10 minute bench @ 1.9GHz - The CPU got up to 44C and that was it... not that high at all
What should I do??!?! Am I going about this the wrong way and doing something wrong? Do I need a better motherboard? Do I just get a Duron 1.6 and play with that to get it in the 2GHz range? I just dont understand why I cant get 2.0GHz stable with the 1.8 and work up from there!
Thank you in advance!
-Jesse
EDIT: I'm going to post a copy of this in the AMD CPU section since I think I should have put this there in the 1st place... A mod can delete this if you want... sorry
I'm new to overclocking. Here's my deal: I'll be building my new gaming rig in about a month or two at most. It will be A64 3500+ on that new MSI Neo2 that isnt out yet. I'm going to want to do some overclocking with it, but since I have very little experiance with O/C I figured I should first practice on my cheaper hardware I have now, so I did.
Right now I'm running:
AMD Duron 1.8GHz
ASUS A7V266-E
768MB RAM (Crucial, PC2100 if I remember correctly)
So, my goal was to experiment with overclocking to get some experiance and try and get my Duron 1.8 to run at 2.0GHz. I was reading a lot on the net where people with the Duron 1.6 where getting their's up to 2.3GHz - 2.5GHz range!! So I figured it would be no problem to hit only 2.0GHz (my goal) with my Duron 1.8... NOT!
My Default Settings:
CPU:System Frequency Multiple [13.5x]
System/PCI Frequency (MHz) [133/33]
System/SDRAM Frequency Ratio [Auto]
CPU Vcore [1.65V]
Multi is locked, cant change that. So in order to get to my goal of 2.0GHz the ONLY thing I did was increase the System/PCI Frequency from 133/33 to 149/37, one MHz at a time. This brought me right up to 2.0GHz, just as I wanted!
So here where my O/C settings at that time:
CPU:System Frequency Multiple [13.5x]
System/PCI Frequency (MHz) [149/37]
System/SDRAM Frequency Ratio [Auto]
CPU Vcore [1.65V]
With these settings I was able to boot into Windows and see that it was indeed runing @ 2.0GHz. So I started to run Sandra CPU benchmark to see how stable it was before I started pushing it up anymore... it wouldnt run for longer than 2 minutes after the Benchmark would start, just kept shutting down
I figured the Vcore was too low, since I never changed it and left it at 1.65V the whole time, so I changed it all the way up to 1.85V.
So now my O/C settings were at:
CPU:System Frequency Multiple [13.5x]
System/PCI Frequency (MHz) [149/37]
System/SDRAM Frequency Ratio [Auto]
CPU Vcore [1.85V]
Still, no luck... kept on crashing very shortly after I would start the bench! (I did not just go from 1.65V to 1.85V in one jump) After it was still crashing with the 1.85V Vcore I just gave up and put it back down to the 1.8GHz (default) settings. I dont know what to do!
I know its not a temperature issue... the hottest the CPU ever got was when I ran a quick 10 minute bench @ 1.9GHz - The CPU got up to 44C and that was it... not that high at all
What should I do??!?! Am I going about this the wrong way and doing something wrong? Do I need a better motherboard? Do I just get a Duron 1.6 and play with that to get it in the 2GHz range? I just dont understand why I cant get 2.0GHz stable with the 1.8 and work up from there!
Thank you in advance!
-Jesse
EDIT: I'm going to post a copy of this in the AMD CPU section since I think I should have put this there in the 1st place... A mod can delete this if you want... sorry
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