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Okay, to put it simply im a complete n00b when it comes to overclocking... okay i have overclocked my gfx card and done a little on another computer, but hey my friends dog could do that...(I dont have a dog of my own to compare against)
Anyway, as I was saying, basicly, im pretty much a n00b, but I have been researching this topic heavily, and you guys have been very very helpful in the past so this is my first port of call on how I should go about overclocking my brand new computer!
This is the situation at the moment:
NF7-S v2 (C1 stepping)
AMD XP1700+ DLT3C JIUHB 0310 XPMW
SLK-800 heatsink
80mm 80cfm delta (one noisy SOAB!)
2x256mb sticks of HyperX pc3500 ram (to be delivered)
At the moment using 256mb of PC2100 ram (spec unknown, timings something like 6-3-3-3-2.5)
GeForce2 GTS (for use when overclocking to make sure my PSU can handle it)
300W PSU of some sort or another! - no problems with it so far
Im really not sure where to start at the moment, I dont have the hyperx in it yet (i nabbed some from my parents computer) so i could actually make sure the thing worked! I have made a fresh install of win2k and running sp3. I have had a look through the bios, but frankly im confused, im not really sure where to start, I was looking for a PCI lock option, but I have no idea where it is, all I could find where a load of divider options, some of which i noticed were the same, like 3/3 and 6/6 (they are the same arnt they?) When the computer starts up, it shows a screen saying something about configuring the raid controller and asks me to press ctrl s or F4...neither of which do anything!!!
I have also actually noticed that when benchmarking with 3dmark 2001se i was getting ~3500, on my last system 1.4GHz athlon (tbird) 256mb sdram i was getting about 4200!!! wtf is going on here, its in a (slightly) faster system, and using ddr ram, what is going on !!! (I noticed a similar thing with my friends P4 (2GHz) 256mb sdram, he got about 3500 as well... same problem perhaps???)
As I have only just set up my system, should I start burning in now and leave it going overnight, or should I start the burning in when I get my PC3500 ram?
As I dont really have much experience with messing around with the bios, if anyone is willing to walk me through it overclocking as we go using some IM program (AIM or msn) that would be so much of a help, I would be so grateful if anyone with experience with overclocking on this board would be able to find some time to help me along with this
These are just some of the questions I have on my mind at the moment, thanks for reading them at least!
Thanks again
Ohh..one more thing to add, the core is at 33 degrees, considering its not overclocked, and it has an SLK-800 and 80cfm delta on it at full blast is that too hot? it seems a bit like it to me, but what do i know! (the board temp is at 20
Anyway, as I was saying, basicly, im pretty much a n00b, but I have been researching this topic heavily, and you guys have been very very helpful in the past so this is my first port of call on how I should go about overclocking my brand new computer!
This is the situation at the moment:
NF7-S v2 (C1 stepping)
AMD XP1700+ DLT3C JIUHB 0310 XPMW
SLK-800 heatsink
80mm 80cfm delta (one noisy SOAB!)
2x256mb sticks of HyperX pc3500 ram (to be delivered)
At the moment using 256mb of PC2100 ram (spec unknown, timings something like 6-3-3-3-2.5)
GeForce2 GTS (for use when overclocking to make sure my PSU can handle it)
300W PSU of some sort or another! - no problems with it so far
Im really not sure where to start at the moment, I dont have the hyperx in it yet (i nabbed some from my parents computer) so i could actually make sure the thing worked! I have made a fresh install of win2k and running sp3. I have had a look through the bios, but frankly im confused, im not really sure where to start, I was looking for a PCI lock option, but I have no idea where it is, all I could find where a load of divider options, some of which i noticed were the same, like 3/3 and 6/6 (they are the same arnt they?) When the computer starts up, it shows a screen saying something about configuring the raid controller and asks me to press ctrl s or F4...neither of which do anything!!!
I have also actually noticed that when benchmarking with 3dmark 2001se i was getting ~3500, on my last system 1.4GHz athlon (tbird) 256mb sdram i was getting about 4200!!! wtf is going on here, its in a (slightly) faster system, and using ddr ram, what is going on !!! (I noticed a similar thing with my friends P4 (2GHz) 256mb sdram, he got about 3500 as well... same problem perhaps???)
As I have only just set up my system, should I start burning in now and leave it going overnight, or should I start the burning in when I get my PC3500 ram?
As I dont really have much experience with messing around with the bios, if anyone is willing to walk me through it overclocking as we go using some IM program (AIM or msn) that would be so much of a help, I would be so grateful if anyone with experience with overclocking on this board would be able to find some time to help me along with this
These are just some of the questions I have on my mind at the moment, thanks for reading them at least!
Thanks again
Ohh..one more thing to add, the core is at 33 degrees, considering its not overclocked, and it has an SLK-800 and 80cfm delta on it at full blast is that too hot? it seems a bit like it to me, but what do i know! (the board temp is at 20