DysfunktinaL Posted January 3, 2007 Posted January 3, 2007 I am looking at OCing my DFI LanParty[uT] RDX200 XPRESS200 939 with my AMD Athlon64 3700 San Diego, but I don't want to spend any cash on upgrading my cooling to a better fan+heatsink or liquid cooling.I'd like to get it OCed from 2.2 to about 2.5 or so. Do you think this is possible? I have not yet taken the chipset fan off and applyed AS5, but I'll be doing that once I find the guides for hooking up my front panel 1394 and Sound.
LLXX Posted January 3, 2007 Posted January 3, 2007 Try it. OC, then if Windows can boot, run a stress program like BURNK7 from the CPUBURN collection.Watch the temperature. Stop the test immediately if it goes above 70°.
ripken204 Posted January 4, 2007 Posted January 4, 2007 above 70? i would say above 60...very risky to overclock with stock heatsink. if you get above 70 then you really need to turn it off.make sure to read the overclocking guide http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showthread.php?t=20823
DysfunktinaL Posted January 4, 2007 Author Posted January 4, 2007 (edited) Thanks for the tips guys. I been doing some benchmarks on my rig as a baseline to build from, but it's very choppy already. No reboots or BSODs, but it's got some temporary lock ups, hangs when loading "My Computer" and "My Documents". I attribute the My Docs hang to the fact that I have 60G+ in there. I need to format my drive and get a clean OS on there to bench from and we'll see.As far as the OC though, how much do you think would be a good first step? It's stock 2.2, would pushing it to say 2.3 be too much for a first step?(Edit)Also, I noticed my chipset temps are idling a bit high (around 55c) and the little fan is maxed out. I am going to take it off and put some thermal paste on it soon, but is that going to make a big differance, and should I even be worried?(/Edit) Edited January 4, 2007 by DysfunktinaL
ripken204 Posted January 4, 2007 Posted January 4, 2007 no that fine for first step. i would move up by .1ghz at a time until u get errors in prime95. then either up ur voltage or slowly back down the overclock. just read the guide a few times, its long but well worth it
DysfunktinaL Posted January 5, 2007 Author Posted January 5, 2007 Aite, so up it by .1. But when I start getting errors, how much would I up the voltage by? I don't want to put my CPU into the electric chair.
DysfunktinaL Posted January 5, 2007 Author Posted January 5, 2007 So for my first OC I am going to up my HTT by 10 to 210. This will put me @ 210x11 = 2310 Mghz. This will put my HTT Freq @ 1050, 50 over nominal. Is this too much? My memory will be @ 210 as well, is that too much over, or should I put in a divider? Also, should I play with my timings @ that level and loosen them up a bit, or keep those at default?
DysfunktinaL Posted January 5, 2007 Author Posted January 5, 2007 My other option is to step it up to a 2596MHz by setting my clock to 236x11, setting my divider to 183 keeping my dram freq. at 199.692308, as close as I can get to 200
ripken204 Posted January 5, 2007 Posted January 5, 2007 well step 1 is to put ur mem on huge divider so that it wont interfear with overclocking, you will change this later. if u need to up your voltage then just go whatever the smallest step up is and test again. i would be very hesitant to go over 1.5v tho.
DysfunktinaL Posted January 6, 2007 Author Posted January 6, 2007 Okay, quick update.I was able to clock up to 215x11 @ 2363MHzI set my divider to 9:10.When I stepped it to 220, it would not clear the cmos backup, so i went back and upped my voltages to my Cpu from 1.36 to 1.5 and backed off my ram divider to 5:6. After that it cleared the backup and boot from CD, and began loading windows. Then I got a reset, and back to startup. I reset everything back to 215 normal volts, and I am loaded up right now.Since i am only @ 215, i think I may move the memory divider bak to 1:1.I ran Prime95 Stress for about 1 hour, no errors, and I am idle @ 35c on my cpu and 46c on my Chipset.i know I can push this to about 2.5, maybe 2.6 and be fine on temps, if I can just get it to be sable past 215. my goal for right now is 230.Should I try putting more volts through my memory and loosen my timings? They are at 2.5 3 3 8 right now with 2.59v reporting from smartguardian, clocking @ 196.9MHz via CPU-Z.If that is the case, how much voltage do I increase by, and how should i adjust the settings?
DysfunktinaL Posted January 6, 2007 Author Posted January 6, 2007 Aww crap...dfi-street.com went offline untill further notice...Something about:As of today, DFI has decided that honesty and integrity are not their cup of tea. DFI and DFI-Street.com have parted ways because of this.That was the main site I was looking @ for overclocking.
ripken204 Posted January 6, 2007 Posted January 6, 2007 f***ing dfi, wow that p***es me off.anyways, dont worry about ur ram! put it on the largest divider there is, 5/6 should be good, and just leave it therei guess u can leave ur voltage at 1.5v, but it should be going past 220 for that....
DysfunktinaL Posted January 6, 2007 Author Posted January 6, 2007 Here, you can use this if you don't have it already. I had it saved from before the site went out.http://www.dysfunktinal.com/tools/DFI_Over...ing_Guide-1.pdf
DysfunktinaL Posted January 8, 2007 Author Posted January 8, 2007 No prob. I was debating weather or not to take the link down, but untill Travis sends me a copy of his copyright form for this document, he can go use a large stick on himself.
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