Rate My 64 Overclock (i'm a bit of a noob)

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karnick

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Well Im somewhat new to the whole overclocking thing but am trying to get the hang of the 64 oc'ing technique. Just wondering if anyone has any comments or suggestions on where i went wrong or possibly comments if i did a good job . all comments are appreciated. :)

CPU: Athlon64 3000+ Newcastle
HS&F: Thermalright SLK-948U Copper Heatsink with 80mm Thermaltake smartfan at 5000rpm.
Mobo: Abit KV8 Pro
Clock Speed: 2600MHZ(10x260)
Vcore: 1.70
Memory+freq: DDR400 Corsair Value Select (im an idiot), 173Mhz, Cas:2
LDT Bus Frequency: 2X or 1X i believe --- not too sure what the overall effect of this is.
Idle Temp: 45C
PCMARK02 CPU score: 8230
3DMark01 Score w/ Gf4 Ti4200(300/500): 13180

Some images with CPU-z and CBI

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Edited after reading below post...

Yeah, what's with the low memory freq.? Not even sure what ratio you're running it at there to get 173 when teh FSB is 200... Should at 'least be able to do tighter timings if it's running that slow, unless you just had it slow to test the processor ceiling independent of the memory.
 
I'm not an expert for 64 ocing but I dont think 173 Mhz for yout FSB is good as 200 MHz is the standard, you might be running 2x. And 1.7 is a pretty high voltage for a 64 system. I bet a lower frequency(2.4 - 2.5) with faster memory and timings will benefit your system.
 
Did you try the 166 divider?

That would run your memory at 216mhz.

Might be worth a shot.

If not 173 is the best you can hope for at 2.6Ghz with that mulitplier :(

Your LDT should be 3x, you wanna keep your fsb x ldt as close to 1000 as possible.
 
maybe take down the htt frequency to 240 with a 166 divider, which will let you run your ram at 200mhz (at spec), and you can also lower the cpu voltage as 1.7 seems like a lot for air cooling. Nice chip tho, i wish I could even make it to 2.4 :D
 
i see what ur sayin, what i was doing tho was using what you would i guess call a 133 divider? (running ram at ddr266) and putting the system bus at 260, and as a result the ram run at 173mhz.... do u reccomend upping the system bus and dropping the multi?
 
The memory setting doesn't *lock* your memory at 233mhz, its a divider.

You need to use this chart.

http://xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=41595

Take the multi you are running and divide the clockspeed in the chart by the memory speed it shows under the divider you want. For example: 10x divider and you want to run 166 memory divider so you'd take 2000 / 166 = 12. Then you take your cpu speed which is 2600 / 12 and your memory would run at 216mhz if you used the 166 memory divider while running 2.6Ghz with a 10x multi.

Its confusing at first, but you'll get it.
 
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