Hey guys,
Im new here and new to overclocking. I have a MSI 875P FIS2R (BIOS 1.32) with a P4 2.6C an eVGA e-GeForce 5900 SE 128MB DDR video card. The memory that im running is generic 2x512 Generic PC3200.
I have managed to OC my system to 3.25GHz (250 CPU Freq) very stable with a Zalman 7000 fan. I was not able to anything over 215 CPU Freq until I lowered the DRAM setting on my mobo to 266MHz.
My question is, what is this DRAM setting and why am I limited to OC when running this on Auto? I was wondering if maybe you guys could post some OC results with similar setups, but put in your mobo settings.
Another strange thing that happend to me, I was trying to compare my OC to stock using 3DMark03. I ran the tests with it OC'd and then I set it back to normal. After I changed my settings back to normal my system would not boot anymore. The only way I can get my PC to boot at all now is to run it at the OC settings. Anyone experience this before?
Thanks for your help, I look forward to gaining much knowledge from all of you.