Noob needs help on OC

[nitto1320i]

hi, i was wondering if u guys could help me OC my Amd64 +3200 Venice..

Amd64 +3200 Venice
K8N SLI Platinum
(2) NX6600GT SLI
(2) 512 DDR3200 Kingston Value Ram (2) 512 DDR3200 Generic
450 Watts PSU
2x 200gb Sata HD
2x 80gb Sata HD
ThermalTake Case with 7 Fans
Cooler Master Water Cooling.

 

[shata]

First of all.
Dont expect too get a hudge overclock cause your ram isnt made to go above like 215mhz which means your Fsb is only gona go to 215 so if your multiplyer is 10 that means... Max you will be able to get is +/- 2.1ghz off your 3200.

Its important to have good Ram when you overclock cause with modern Pcs you cant Control the Multiplyer all the overclocking is done with the FSB and Vcore + Memory Voltage. You might be able to get it too 2.2ghz if your raise the Memory Voltage a bit but it will be hard plus your warrenty is gone if you overclock that ram. If you get some OCZ Gold Series ram there made for overclocking and have a lifetime replacement warrenty there good up to 230mhz i believe and up to 3.2volts. (funny thing is my mobo can only go up too 2.85volts)

Anyways hope that helped you a little.

 

[nitto1320i]

er, i have a few questions. hehe. i might be getting a new mem in that case. could u suggest a good one for me? or what specs on ram should i be looking for? im still kinda confuse about adding up voltage. when or where. i just wanna try to OC my rig. since i haven't tried it. and i dont worry much about the warranty. also finding a good mem in our country takes ages. since all good stuff are made to order.

 

[nitto1320i]

aight, here's what ive done so far. could u correct me where im wrong?

Cpu clock @ 2200mhz
DDR clock @ 220mhz
cpu fsb @ 220
pcie clock locked @ 100
mem voltage @ 2.50v
nf4 voltage @ 1.55v (dont know what's this for. lol)
extra CPU voltage @over Vid 3.3% (here goes another one i dont know what for. lol)

now what else do i have to do to check stability? and also about the mem. a friend of mine is selling his mem. OCZ 4200 platinum 2X512 ddr533. will this mem do?

 

[shata]

Im a little bit confused is the pc currently overclocked to those specs?

 

[nitto1320i]

yes, i just OC it to that speed at the moment.. oh and here's another mem i need advice "Corsair 3500c2 and if underclocked 3200 2-2-2-5" he said.

 

[shata]

Ya it might be able to do 2-2-2-5 you dont realy know till you try it but it should be able too.

Google These:
Prime95
Memtest

These two programs will show you how stable your overclock is, another thing you might wana do is run this: 3dmark05 you can download that from guru3d.com

 

[nitto1320i]

i already got the 3dmark05 but havent figured out which score is atleast a good one. and by the way, how did i go so far with OC my rig? i didn't actually touch the mem settings. left it to auto though. and when my pc boots it says ddr400 dual channel. doesn't it suppose to go down @ 333mhz?

 

[shata]

SLI 7800s get 10000-15000 on 3d05
My 6800gt get 5540 oc'd i get 5745

Ya im rather impressed with your overclock 220 is alot for valueram but you wont know if its error free till you run prime95 and memtest.

And DDR400 is just the Effective speed (someone correct me if im rong) but the Real speed is 200mhz. Im not sure what DDR533 runs at its probly like 230..250 or so.

The stuff you say doesnt realy make sense re read stuff before you post it im kinda trying to figure out what your wanting.
Your last question...
MOST motherboards for gaming that ive seen only go up to ddr400. Ive only seen Server boards go above drr400 so it will always say Dual channel DDR400. That doesnt mean its not running above DDR400 if your running your ram at 220 thats like pc3500

 

[nitto1320i]

sorry for asking to many questions.. :? i just got my first test from Prime95 and self-test 1024k passed from test 1 to 4. and for the memtest. isit the memtest86 or just memtest?

 

[shata]

No no, i didnt mean your asking to many question im just saying sometimes what you say doesnt make sense, like the gramar...

And yes its memtest86 srry i forgot about the 86. The version i used you needed a flopy disk so make sure you got one on hand.
If prime95 didnt give you errors after you stoped the test then your fine with the cpu atleast.

 

[nitto1320i]

thanks for the help. about setting-up the memory latency in bios. do i have to set it up manually? or can i just leave it to auto as it is? now my rig is running
@2.3ghz, max i can do is only @2.51.