[Mooseknuckle]

Ok so i have made these changes so far in my BIOS:

CPU clock from 8-9 (which is 9.5 with the fine tune)
PCI freq to 100MHz
System memory mult to 2.0 (which is 533mhz)
FSB to 333 ****(i tried 343 but when booted pc shutdown and when i go into BIOS is says system voltage not optimized---if i set it to auto the warning goes away or should i just manually set voltages and if so which voltages?)
CPU Enhanced halt disabled
CPU Thermal Monitor Disabled (yes or no???)
CPU Smart fan Disabled (yes or no?)


also what would you think a nice OC for this would be what GHz? and what would be a good temp that is not too hot ?

[Mooseknuckle]

and i just realized that when i try to run the Intel test program you showed me the intel program itself will not start if i tell it to use max stress? Weird it will run the test if i say 1/2 stress though.

[serverguy]

I suggest you turn Smart Fan on. You want to be aiming for less than 60 degrees on full load.

CPU Thermal Monitor you can leave on.

Other stuffs fine.

I have the same chip at 3.6Ghz. My FSB is at 380, and my voltage in BIOS is roughly 1.3V. In the actual OS, it is a bit lower, due to natural volt loss. My temps are about 53 degrees full load. 33 idle.

At the moment you should have about 3.1Ghz, which you should be able to confirm in CPU-Z.

To raise the FSB further you will have to increase voltage. You shouldn't need to go past 1.3V really.

Try increasing the voltage a notch, once you have increased the FSB, until it boots OK.

Then test for stability. I have no idea with Intel Burn Test won't run, but you can Google and download Orthos and run a Blend Test. That will tell you after about five minutes if things are not stable.

You may find that Intel Burn Test will run once the voltage is a bit higher.

If the machine crashes, then you need to raise the voltage a notch more.

If you're motherboard requires you to manually chose a voltage when you want to raise the voltage, start with perhaps 1.25V and go from there. Just keep increasing the FSB until it crashes, then raise the voltage more.

[serverguy]

One other thing, you may have to set your voltage significently higher in the BIOS than what you will see in CPU-Z, because this board looses quite a lot of voltage along the way.

[Mooseknuckle]

if i set the voltage to auto will that take care of the voltage end of things ?

or should i manually set them? i have both options

and if i am doing it manually should i JUST be changing the cpu voltage because there is a fsb, ram and other voltages as well?

[serverguy]

You want to manually set them. You'll have to find out how much to change them though, by trail and error.

The main one you want to change is CPU Frequency, but you may need a touch of FSB Voltage if you get to hight FSBs, and perhaps a touch of North Bridge.

But for now, just raise the CPU voltage.

Most of it is trial and error, and Googling for people who have been there before, and reading what they had to change. A good overclock can take a couple of weeks to achieve.

[Mooseknuckle]

ok....

i set my fsb to 330, system memory is running at (330x2=660), and i set the voltages to auto...ran orthos and after about 25seconds it stopped...

so i then manually set the voltage to 1.35 and ran orthos...it stopped after about 1.5 minutes...

also when i looked at cpu-z it showed my core voltage at 1.168 even after i set it to 1.35????

[Mooseknuckle]

and i just got intel burn to run again on max stress after it not working the past 20 times i tried to run it...it would just shut down on me..but this time it ran...i chose max stress which should test all memory and it tells me i only have 1929mb of available system memory when i have 4GB?? any insight?

[serverguy]

Hi again.

It sounds like you are getting somewhere now!

Don't worry about the high voltages in the BIOS and low voltages in CPU-Z. The ones in CPU-Z are the ones you need to compare, and you're board is known for having a high V-Droop (loss of voltage).

So continue to up the voltage in the BIOS until it will run Orthos without stopping.

Are you looking at Orthos, while a stress test is running? Sometimes the voltages will change a bit from no stress to high stress.

Is Intel Burn Test completing multiple passes without crashing or erroring out? Make sure you enable Error Reporting.

You should use max stress, that is correct.

No idea about why it is only reporting 2GB of RAM, are you using a 32bit OS?

Also, what temps are you getting whilst under full load?

[Mooseknuckle]

yes 32 bit os....i am currently running Intel burn for 10 tests...it should be about done soon it hasnt errored out and is still running with the same settings listed above that crashed orthos so we will see...



so you are saying that the core voltage in cpu-z is accurate and that is what it is actually getting? because that voltage has pretty much stayed the same from it being on auto to me manually setting the voltage..