OC Capability of the 4000+

fade2green514 said:
if no physical damage was done, you either wouldn't send it back... or they would simply send you back the same board. they most likely won't replace it.
lol unstable at 2.68ghz... of course. instability means not enough voltage or too much frequency. what are the temps at 2.68ghz?
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Idle I was at an easy 25C. at 2.57 I was averaging 27C with load. Not too bad.
 
Ok did everything you said. Everything seems fine and dandy. Here are the new RAM stats.

DRAM Frequency 196.4 MHz
FSB : DRAM CPU/14
CAS# Latency 2.5 clocks
RAS# to CAS# 3 clocks
RAS# Precharge 3 clocks
Cycle Time (TRAS) 6 clocks
Bank Cycle Time (TRC) 16 clocks
DRAM Idle Timer 16 clocks
Command Rate 1T

Definitely an improvement, but some of my values are different since apparently we have similar type of ram. Should I just reboot into bios and change the setting to yours?

LoL, yea same here. But awesome thread. I've learned so much. Thanks filip.
 
No need, most important ones are the one that is showing 2.5 and Command Rate, everything else is best to leave at default with Value RAM. If you change those timings you won't see any difference so leave them like they are.
 
cool cool. Thanks so much. I feel so happy that I'm getting the best bang out of my computer.

One last question. Did you change any of your voltage settings? Cuase I left mine auto. That program CBID shows my voltage to be 1.424 Volts.

It also shows my max voltage to be 1.4 volts. Is this something to fix or be worried about?

Actually it fluctuates from 1.408 to 1.424 volts.

Sorry make that 2 questions. 1 more. THere is one more thing I see in Bios that I'm tempted to change. its the PCI-E clock. RIght now its at 100 MHZ. But people tell me not to touch it. Should I stay away?
 
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No problem, I'm here to help.

Well my CPU frequency is 2.25 GHz so my voltage is 1.4

Your CPU may become unstable, but then again it may not.

I recommend downloading Prime95 and leave it running on your computer for 24 hours (everyone says 24h but I think that 2 hours is enough), so if it reports any errors then you need to up your voltage a bit, a little tip - everything below 1.6V is OK for stock cooling (assuming that you have a good airflow in your case too).

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Just leave the PCI-E clock at 100 MHz.

Oh yeah, you did change the PCI (not PCI-E) frrequency to 33.33 MHz, right? If not what are you waiting for???
 
ok I left the PCI-E Clock at 100 Mhz. I also changed my PCI CLock to 33.33 MHZ. I don't really know what that is but I'm assuming its the thing in my bios that says PCI Synchronization clock. THe setting it was originally on was Auto and I could have chosen "to CPU" or 33.33. So I changed it to 33.33. Thats better?

What is that? And why is 33.33 better?
 
It's better that way cuz the PCI frequency would change too when you changed your FSB and this would cause instability, you wouldnt be able to overlclock even 100 MHz, I guess when it was set on Auto it was set to 33.33 MHz.

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I hope you understood everything I said cuz English isn't my main language. I tried to put it a simple as possible.
 
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Thanks. I'm think I'm all done. One minor question. This is about the CBID program. My CPU Athlon 64 3700+ 1 MB Cache has HTT built in or something. Atleast thats what the specs say. How come CBID says Hyper-threading NO in the box?
 
awesome. You were so much help. Your english is perfect. Thank you so much for taking the time to teach me. Its a great feeling. Again thanks.
 
vspede said:
Thanks. I'm think I'm all done. One minor question. This is about the CBID program. My CPU Athlon 64 3700+ 1 MB Cache has HTT built in or something. Atleast thats what the specs say. How come CBID says Hyper-threading NO in the box?
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HTT means Hyper Transport Technology, HT means Hyper Threading.

Intels have Hyper Threading not AMD's.
 
OH yea, DUH. Thanks again man. I feel so relaxed now. Its 5:50 AM here so I think I need to get some sleep. But thanks again, I'm sure Good Karma will repay you for your help this night.

Vash
 
vspede said:
OH yea, DUH. Thanks again man. I feel so relaxed now. Its 5:50 AM here so I think I need to get some sleep. But thanks again, I'm sure Good Karma will repay you for your help this night.

Vash
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Sure, anytime, stay cool. ;)
 
filip-matijevic said:
OMG, I didn't even know this was your thread, lol, I'm very sorry for hijacking.
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as long as we are talking OC, I dont care man. Hijack away. My first work with AMD and ATI. Had intel before and I like the AMD much better...so it is still a learning step for me on the AMD OC even though I OC'd my Intel.
 
filip-matijevic said:
It's better that way cuz the PCI frequency would change too when you changed your FSB and this would cause instability, you wouldnt be able to overlclock even 100 MHz, I guess when it was set on Auto it was set to 33.33 MHz.

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I hope you understood everything I said cuz English isn't my main language. I tried to put it a simple as possible.
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Dude, you write better english than most of my Soldiers...until you said that, thought you were English, Aussi or American
 
I only get like 15 min daily to play with my machine right now...work keeping me busy.

Everyone stop in now and then, I'll be having questions soon when i can actuall "Dig" into the project. i am seeing things here that my Intel systems didn't have. (or they are just named differently)
 
Ok, here is a question for anyone with a DFI board. Looking for CPU voltage, but what I am seeing is CPU VID control and CPU VID Special Control.

I am assuming the first is for core voltage, and the second for OC voltage increase. (it ups it in percentages) If anyone can advise, please let me know.
 
To all,
First I want to thank vspede for supplying the link to this forum. As you can see by my sig, I pretty well have my OC maxed out. A 20% OC on a 3.0 P4 is pretty much it. My question is this. All my voltage settings are set on auto in the bios. Is there any advantage to be gained by changing this? I've actually had the CPU up to 3.70 but discovered problems while encoding. At 3.60 my memory runs at 320 MHz with a bandwidth right around 4600. Is there any way left to improve the memory speed? I know I can buy some faster memory but I don't know if it's worth paying that much money.

In the next month I'm buying an Opteron 175 and this computer will get a new AGP video card and become my entertainment center. I will more than likely get an Asus SLI MB for the Opteron (socket 939) and an ATi X800 or 850 for the video (single for now). While I may never use the SLI, it's nice to have as it allows me to do it if faster PCIe 16x video cards come along in the future.

I've edited this post because my sig is not showing. When I went back to edit it, it's not there? Help please.

Happy Computering,
theonejrs
 
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