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- Nov 19, 2004
ok so I have my IC7-Max 3 overclocked right now to 220 FSB (3.0C at 3.30 GHZ) and my Corsair Memory at 2-3-3-6 timming and I was wondering if it would be better to lower the timings and maybe try to go higher in the FSB. Should I be able to go higher if I upped the timmings on the memory and do I really need to do any voltage mods to go higher than 220 FSB cuz I would rather not get into that. And if I am not able to go higher than 220 then would I lose anything using dividers and running memory asynchrously from FSB? What are you guys experience overclocking and what would my best route be in my situation. My RAm is 433 ram speced at 2-2-2-5 timmings.
Basically I am running very tight timmings and I was seeing all these people on the forum with super high overclocks and obviously I know relaxing the timmings should enable me to have a higher overclock but I was wondering if the trade of is worth it i.e. Tight timmings and Low FSB vs. Relaxed timmings and high FSB
specs below
-P4. 3.0 C Northwood (currently at 3.30 GHZ Overclock 1:1 at 220 FSB) on stock vcore
-Corsair PC-3500C2PT DDR Ram 512MBX2 (voltage at 2.8V I believe)
-IC7-Max 3 running 1.5 bios
-Ati 9800XT
-All cooling is air. I have the Thermalright All Copper Heatsink SP-97 or something like that. I have a probe attached to my heatsink and it never reads higher than 48 degrees under full load. Ofcourse software that reads the temps from the bios usually say like 57-60 degrees under load but I believe these are off.
I have locked AGP/PCI ratios, I have the GAt Set to Auto for everything, timmigs are 2-3-3-6 for memory. At all these settings the best I can get it to go is 220 FSB at 1:1. I try to go to 230 but it does not Post. I tried upping the vcore on cpu a bit and no show. Also I have messed with the Ram Volt but U have read on these forum that it acts funny past 2.8v. This CPU should be able to go higher than a measely 300 MHZ overclock. I am not sure if it is my ram or my CPU that is holding me back.
Basically I am running very tight timmings and I was seeing all these people on the forum with super high overclocks and obviously I know relaxing the timmings should enable me to have a higher overclock but I was wondering if the trade of is worth it i.e. Tight timmings and Low FSB vs. Relaxed timmings and high FSB
specs below
-P4. 3.0 C Northwood (currently at 3.30 GHZ Overclock 1:1 at 220 FSB) on stock vcore
-Corsair PC-3500C2PT DDR Ram 512MBX2 (voltage at 2.8V I believe)
-IC7-Max 3 running 1.5 bios
-Ati 9800XT
-All cooling is air. I have the Thermalright All Copper Heatsink SP-97 or something like that. I have a probe attached to my heatsink and it never reads higher than 48 degrees under full load. Ofcourse software that reads the temps from the bios usually say like 57-60 degrees under load but I believe these are off.
I have locked AGP/PCI ratios, I have the GAt Set to Auto for everything, timmigs are 2-3-3-6 for memory. At all these settings the best I can get it to go is 220 FSB at 1:1. I try to go to 230 but it does not Post. I tried upping the vcore on cpu a bit and no show. Also I have messed with the Ram Volt but U have read on these forum that it acts funny past 2.8v. This CPU should be able to go higher than a measely 300 MHZ overclock. I am not sure if it is my ram or my CPU that is holding me back.