OC Capability of the 4000+

Machine7587

Machine7587

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Looking to start OCin my 4000+

Anyone that has already done this and has any input I should know? System Specs are below. I am running San Diego core.

If anyone has capped this, would just like to know where you capped it at.
 
You've got a nice motherboard, but your RAM doesnt look like anything great. You should still be able to overclock it with dividers. No one really knows how far you're gonna OC, steppings offer a tiny indication, but the only real way of finding out is trying yourself.

Before you overclock, I'd flash to the newest BIOS for that board, earlier revisions were a bit buggy.
 
have already flashed the Bios. (first thing I did) My mem was taken out of my server rig. Gotta u/g it. Need to invest into a vid card first though. the x800 sucketh the salty wong...

Gonna start OCin tonight...hoping my mem don't overheat too much. Have heat spreaders, but may have to invest into the mem water block...
 
Have to upgrade my mem. bleh.

Got it to 2.6, but unstable and if I so much as go higher, I get a random boot or no boot...

Figure DDR500 will be the best bet for this. Goal is to hit 2.8 but 3 would be great. =)

Love the DFI board, it's endless voltage, freq, and multiplier capabilities just rock.

Again, if anyone has any luck getting the 4000+ to OC, post it, would like to hear the accomplishments...
 
When it became unstable at ~2.6Ghz, did you only increase the FSB, or did you mess with the voltages and multipliers?
 
[-0MEGA-] said:
When it became unstable at ~2.6Ghz, did you only increase the FSB, or did you mess with the voltages and multipliers?
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I hadn't messed with voltages yet. But i tried a variety of FSB and multiplier settings to get it stable. I am thinking I should not have to up voltage at only 200Mhz increase. I may have to...might be why I wasn't booting, but my RAM is only DDR400 and it's not great RAM at that...would feel better if I u/g before I went any farther instead of getting new because I burned it out. :D
 
Machine7587 said:
Did you have to adjust voltages at 2.6? Just curious...
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I once tried OCing my system and I didn't have to do anything with the voltage and i easily OCed over 200mhz, but it was the lack of a functional agp/pci lock that killedme...So i think you dont need to up voltage yet..
 
Nice processor you got there. These 4000+ OC nicely lol. Got it any further? 2.6 on stock volts is pretty damn good, hope you hit 3 ghz :cool:
 
well, played with it last night and still could not get past 2.6 Mhz.

I am thinking more and more that it is my mem. Going to try a few more things tonight. Good news is that at 2.6 I am holding strong at 28C on CPU temp with load.

What is strange to me is that If I try and get the processor to 2.68 I have boot failure (reboots constantly) Wierd. Little looking will find the problem though.
 
will be trying that tonight...not going to go above 2.85v as this mem is not the greatest. (Stock is 2.7) Ordered a set of CORSAIR XMS DDR500 (2 Gig).

I'll see what can happen from there. Would help if I knew some Mhz to E ratios used by others. Would make this less of a guessing game.
 
the 4000+ doesn't have as much o/c capability.
as Praetor put it, in oc 101 of course (which you MUST have read right? before you try o/cing!)
"some CPUs are more friendly to OCing than others. Generally, one, two or three models back from the latest and greatest is an ideal OCing processor"
the 4000+ is clocked very high for an athlon 64.
basically, if you planned on o/cing, a 3000+, 3200+, or 3500+ would have been more ideal.
of course, people will say that the athlon 64 4000+ will o/c more because its clocked higher already... but that makes no sense, because they mass produce athlon 64's and then simply sell them at different frequency's. an athlon 64 3000+ is no different than an athlon 64 4000+ except for the fact that an athlon 64 4000+ ONE: has a higher multiplier and TWO: is warranted under a higher frequency. (basically, if you try to run a 3000+ under 4000+ speeds you've voided the warranty)
 
Yea, read it and have OC'd in the past...mostly with intel. Just wanted to see how far I can get it on stock voltage first then up from there. Future plans ar to go to an x2 processor, but that is down the road a bit.

Warranty I am not worried about. Don't know why, but more worried about the MB warranty than the CPU...but then again, I abuse CPU's by OCing them...
 
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