Hello everyone!
Excuse the long post. This is my first post here.
I would like to take the opportunity to thank all contributers to these pages for helping me to learn more about the (look both ways to see if anyone is looking) "dark secrets" of overclocking.
Not long ago I knew very little about overclocking, but I used the internet to educate myself, which brought me here many times. I had a system that I had built by a computer shop. They chose all the components for me. I subsequently replaced a few items as I learned more.
This is my system now:
-Asus A8V Deluxe motherboard
-AMD Athlon 64x2 4200 (upgraded from Athlon 64 3500)
-Thermaltake Armor Jr case(upgraded form a case that didn't even have a case fan)
-ATI Radeon X850XT agp video card (upgraded from 9600XT)
-OCZ 520 watt power supply(upgraded from 400 watt generic power supply that died)
-OCZ platinum (2x) 1024 pc3200 2-3-2-5 memory (upgraded from Team Group (2x) 512 pc3200 3.5-4-4-8)
-LG DVD Rom
-LG DVD RW
-3.5 floppy drive
-upgrade to Zalman CNPS9500 CPU cooler
-Upgrade to Zalman VF900-Cu VGA cooler
All upgrades were done with overclock in mind (except CPU...I just got a good price).
I'm not ready to conquer the world just yet, but so far I've achieved a PC mark 05 score of 7021 with these settings:
245 FSB x 11 = 2695 Ghz
1.475 volts CPU
memory clocking of 224.5 at 5:3
HTT 800
Vid card clocked at 580-600 (520-540 stock)
AGP lock at 66:33
I'm having alot of fun achieving higher scores as it reminds me of days in my past when I would drag race cars and make them go faster. I will of course continue to experiment, but I feel like my 939 AGP platform is probably getting close to a safe maximum.
I can't give enough praise to the 2 Zalman coolers and the OCZ memory as they have made the difference for my system.
Again thankyou to everyone here! You can all give yourselves a pat on the back from me.
-Brian
Excuse the long post. This is my first post here.
I would like to take the opportunity to thank all contributers to these pages for helping me to learn more about the (look both ways to see if anyone is looking) "dark secrets" of overclocking.
Not long ago I knew very little about overclocking, but I used the internet to educate myself, which brought me here many times. I had a system that I had built by a computer shop. They chose all the components for me. I subsequently replaced a few items as I learned more.
This is my system now:
-Asus A8V Deluxe motherboard
-AMD Athlon 64x2 4200 (upgraded from Athlon 64 3500)
-Thermaltake Armor Jr case(upgraded form a case that didn't even have a case fan)
-ATI Radeon X850XT agp video card (upgraded from 9600XT)
-OCZ 520 watt power supply(upgraded from 400 watt generic power supply that died)
-OCZ platinum (2x) 1024 pc3200 2-3-2-5 memory (upgraded from Team Group (2x) 512 pc3200 3.5-4-4-8)
-LG DVD Rom
-LG DVD RW
-3.5 floppy drive
-upgrade to Zalman CNPS9500 CPU cooler
-Upgrade to Zalman VF900-Cu VGA cooler
All upgrades were done with overclock in mind (except CPU...I just got a good price).
I'm not ready to conquer the world just yet, but so far I've achieved a PC mark 05 score of 7021 with these settings:
245 FSB x 11 = 2695 Ghz
1.475 volts CPU
memory clocking of 224.5 at 5:3
HTT 800
Vid card clocked at 580-600 (520-540 stock)
AGP lock at 66:33
I'm having alot of fun achieving higher scores as it reminds me of days in my past when I would drag race cars and make them go faster. I will of course continue to experiment, but I feel like my 939 AGP platform is probably getting close to a safe maximum.
I can't give enough praise to the 2 Zalman coolers and the OCZ memory as they have made the difference for my system.
Again thankyou to everyone here! You can all give yourselves a pat on the back from me.
-Brian
