AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Venice

[KamiQuazi]

I want a very easy way to overclock my CPU with/without alot of work... and please be very detailed on it... thanks, LICS2k7

My specs are below...

[ripken204]

well since ur board kinda sucks! lol

start out by raising the htt

[Aegis]

And lower the HTT multiplier to 4 or 3.

[Tomcat76]

I'd be afraid to give any sort of advise. That board is known to NOT lock the PCI Express port when overclocking the CPU. Over a period of two/three months, my video card and that same motherboard died.

Get the SLI Platinum version if you want to stick with MSI, which is the one I'm using now too. I could get an FSB over 300Mhz with my previous processor, a 3500+ Newcastle, but I don't know if a Venice can get there too.

If your memory is DDR400, set it to 166Mhz (in the BIOS). Change the CPU FSB to 220Mhz, the multiplier to 10.5 and the HT multiplier to 4. On the same page, find that item that defaults to "Center Spread" (I forgot the name) and disable it. Raise the voltage to 1.35V.

Back in Windows, install NVidia nTune and start NVIDIA Monitor (part of that package). See if you get an error message.

Edited December 28, 2005 by Tomcat76

[ripken204]

see, just get the dfi and be done with it! lol

[big poppa pump]

see, just get the dfi and be done with it! lol

Will you just cut it out with DFI crap! Mod or no Mod! I just about had it with this DFI fanboy crap!

[ripken204]

please explain? im not a dfi fanboy, but when someone wants a good overclock then that is the board that will do it. ive tried to help lostincyberspace2007 overclock his pc and it just does not want to do anything.

[dirtwarrior]

You have a few options in bios for this

, I was looking for O/C bios and couldnt find any

But can O/C this board

[gdogg]

dfi rox!

heheh

btw it really does

[Tomcat76]

@ripken204:

It depends, really. The MSI K8N SLI Platinum is the best board I had so far for my current X2 4200+. The performance, overclockability and stability is unmatched by the exact DFI board model you have. I also need three PCI slots: DC10+ capture card, SBLive 5.1 sound card, and the other is used for a Promise Ultra 100 TX2 when I need to backup someone's hard drive.

The MSI K8N SLI Platinum features the same type quality chipset fan that DFI uses (at least the revision I have does) and similar PWM ICs (probably the main reason why it overclocks so well).

Edited December 28, 2005 by Tomcat76

[gdogg]

thats not the only reason for dfi.

dfi has great bios', great support, dfi-street.com

great user made bios

bios' with features, like memtest.

sli board, without a sli switch, (its in the bios instead)

4V on memory, juper, on nf4 ultra-d, sli-dr, sli-dr expert, etc

lots of extra power connections, for when using sli, to make sure board is properly powered.

japanese capasitors

oh did I mention, the awards?

teehee

I wasn't a fan boy, til, I switched from an asus !

[KamiQuazi]

Im with Ripken on that the board im using the MSI Neo4 Platinum Edition... there is just no option to overclock that good on that board... i mean if u want to get in to the exact configurations of the RAM its a good board... but other than that... not much after that... lol... anyways... RAM (166mhz) FSB (220 MHz) and i rasied my default VCORE (1.45v to 1.50v)... but as soon as i change the FSB (240MHz) it won't boot-up... so im lost... anyone with this board i need help...

[Tomcat76]

Sorry about advising the CPU voltage overclock value for the X2. Nothing would've been broken, though

When is the voltage "in the reds" according to that MSI board?

What's nVidia Monitor saying? If it complains about the PCI Express, you should stop all overclocking immediately or just hope your video card can handle it.

[ripken204]

hmm, ya, doesnt msi like to overclock the pci-e along with the htt? ive heard a bug along the lines of that before.

[Tomcat76]

Uh... yeah. That's what I wrote in my first post in this thread...