First overclock... I'm going to need help - Page 2

**linderman** · 03-23-2009, 04:07 PM

anyway ...........nice find on the pics .............. that dude did a nice job on the cable management ...............

**greenbrucelee** · 03-23-2009, 04:18 PM

a friend of mine has a system with no water cooling tubes or fans and his cpu which is QX 3.2GHz his whole setup is submersed in mineral water apart from the opticle drive and hard drive and he runs at 21c on full whack. He does have spend a whole day cleaning the thing out though once a month. His case takes 5 litres of mineral water.

He also has a hydrogen based setup

veritas88 · 03-23-2009, 05:00 PM

Quote:

a friend of mine has a system with no water cooling tubes or fans and his cpu which is QX 3.2GHz his whole setup is submersed in mineral water apart from the opticle drive and hard drive and he runs at 21c on full whack. He does have spend a whole day cleaning the thing out though once a month. His case takes 5 litres of mineral water.

He also has a hydrogen based setup

That has my vote for one of the most awesome things ever...

Here's my screenshot of what I have to work with...

EDIT: I posted the options for what I can change the values to earlier... but here they are again:
Memory Frequency 667, 800, 1066, 1333, 1600
tCL 1-10
tRCD 1-11
tRP 1-11
tRASmin 9-28

**linderman** · 03-23-2009, 05:21 PM

try changing the memory freq = 800

and

tCL 1-10 = 5
tRCD 1-11 = 5
tRP 1-11 = 5
tRASmin 9-28 = 18

**linderman** · 03-23-2009, 05:22 PM

hopefully you have some cpu options too ?

veritas88 · 03-23-2009, 05:36 PM

Quote:

try changing the memory freq = 800

and

tCL 1-10 = 5
tRCD 1-11 = 5
tRP 1-11 = 5
tRASmin 9-28 = 18

Is it ok if I do that right now? I am just increasing the speed of my RAM sticks by modifying this right?

I don't see ANY options to mess with the processor... There is an option or 2 to mess with PCI, but that's it... am I not looking in the right place? I was under chipset configuration, but I searched all over my BIOS for anything that had to do with the processor, and came up empty...

**linderman** · 03-23-2009, 07:20 PM

probaby doesnt have full range of overclocking options

**linderman** · 03-23-2009, 07:22 PM

Is it ok if I do that right now? I am just increasing the speed of my RAM sticks by modifying this right?

yes / try it ................... if you get a bios hang up ................. simply remove the power cord from the power supply and then remove the cmos battery from the motherboard..........wait 15 minutes

then pu tit back together ............... enter the bios .......... set data and time and maybe the boot order ............. it will restore itself back to default status

veritas88 · 03-24-2009, 04:53 PM

Alright... I changed the values in BIOS... no hang ups...but I do have a question...

Did all I really do just now was modify the settings to what they should have been in the first place?

In the picture of my BIOS I posted earlier (before I did anything), it says:
Current Memory Speed: 800MHz
Current Memory Setting 5-5-5-18
And then gives me options to change my memory frequency, tCL, etc.

Do you see what I am saying? (I assume that is where you got the values for me to enter)
Is this the best that I can get out of the RAM? Or can we squeeze a little more juice out of it without putting it in danger, and how would I go about doing that?

**linderman** · 03-24-2009, 08:06 PM

the values I got are just from experience ..................???????

yes you can push more ............... the idea is to increase your clock settings ......... then stress test for atleast two hours ............all the while watching your temps with core temp .................. abort testing at 65C !!

when you fail you must either increase voltage ............. or decrease

the more wrong you are with volt selection .......... the faster the stress test failures will come

veritas88 · 03-24-2009, 08:30 PM

Sorry didn't mean to offend...

Where would you recommend I go from here?

**linderman** · 03-24-2009, 08:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by veritas88

Sorry didn't mean to offend...

Where would you recommend I go from here?

no offense taken ?

you cant go any further ............. I dont see where you have any CPU options ?

veritas88 · 03-24-2009, 08:56 PM

So are you saying I can't proceed with my current motherboard? Would it be pointless to try and OC the RAM w/o the CPU options?

**linderman** · 03-24-2009, 09:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by veritas88

So are you saying I can't proceed with my current motherboard? Would it be pointless to try and OC the RAM w/o the CPU options?

very pointless .................. its a combo effort

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greenbrucelee Mentor Hardware team Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 1,832 OS: XP SP3 My System	Re: First overclock... I'm going to need help a friend of mine has a system with no water cooling tubes or fans and his cpu which is QX 3.2GHz his whole setup is submersed in mineral water apart from the opticle drive and hard drive and he runs at 21c on full whack. He does have spend a whole day cleaning the thing out though once a month. His case takes 5 litres of mineral water. He also has a hydrogen based setup __________________ Microsoft certified professional, Network +, A+ certified Last edited by greenbrucelee; 03-23-2009 at 04:22 PM.

03-23-2009, 05:21 PM	#24 (permalink)
linderman Moderator, Hardware Team Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 20,436 OS: win 2000 pro / Win XP pro My System	Re: First overclock... I'm going to need help try changing the memory freq = 800 and tCL 1-10 = 5 tRCD 1-11 = 5 tRP 1-11 = 5 tRASmin 9-28 = 18 __________________ I still know nothing and I respect that fact, striving to improve and, along the way, help anyone that comes from the place that I used to be! Power Supply Selection LEARN TO BACK-UP YOUR DATA FREE & EASY YouTube - Runtime Software DriveImage XML tutorial

03-23-2009, 05:22 PM	#25 (permalink)
linderman Moderator, Hardware Team Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 20,436 OS: win 2000 pro / Win XP pro My System	Re: First overclock... I'm going to need help hopefully you have some cpu options too ? __________________ I still know nothing and I respect that fact, striving to improve and, along the way, help anyone that comes from the place that I used to be! Power Supply Selection LEARN TO BACK-UP YOUR DATA FREE & EASY YouTube - Runtime Software DriveImage XML tutorial

03-23-2009, 07:20 PM	#27 (permalink)
linderman Moderator, Hardware Team Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 20,436 OS: win 2000 pro / Win XP pro My System	Re: First overclock... I'm going to need help probaby doesnt have full range of overclocking options __________________ I still know nothing and I respect that fact, striving to improve and, along the way, help anyone that comes from the place that I used to be! Power Supply Selection LEARN TO BACK-UP YOUR DATA FREE & EASY YouTube - Runtime Software DriveImage XML tutorial

03-23-2009, 07:22 PM	#28 (permalink)
linderman Moderator, Hardware Team Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 20,436 OS: win 2000 pro / Win XP pro My System	Re: First overclock... I'm going to need help Is it ok if I do that right now? I am just increasing the speed of my RAM sticks by modifying this right? yes / try it ................... if you get a bios hang up ................. simply remove the power cord from the power supply and then remove the cmos battery from the motherboard..........wait 15 minutes then pu tit back together ............... enter the bios .......... set data and time and maybe the boot order ............. it will restore itself back to default status __________________ I still know nothing and I respect that fact, striving to improve and, along the way, help anyone that comes from the place that I used to be! Power Supply Selection LEARN TO BACK-UP YOUR DATA FREE & EASY YouTube - Runtime Software DriveImage XML tutorial

03-24-2009, 04:53 PM	#29 (permalink)
veritas88 Registered User Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 57 OS: XP, Vista, 7	Re: First overclock... I'm going to need help Alright... I changed the values in BIOS... no hang ups...but I do have a question... Did all I really do just now was modify the settings to what they should have been in the first place? In the picture of my BIOS I posted earlier (before I did anything), it says: Current Memory Speed: 800MHz Current Memory Setting 5-5-5-18 And then gives me options to change my memory frequency, tCL, etc. Do you see what I am saying? (I assume that is where you got the values for me to enter) Is this the best that I can get out of the RAM? Or can we squeeze a little more juice out of it without putting it in danger, and how would I go about doing that?

03-24-2009, 08:06 PM	#30 (permalink)
linderman Moderator, Hardware Team Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 20,436 OS: win 2000 pro / Win XP pro My System	Re: First overclock... I'm going to need help the values I got are just from experience ..................??????? yes you can push more ............... the idea is to increase your clock settings ......... then stress test for atleast two hours ............all the while watching your temps with core temp .................. abort testing at 65C !! when you fail you must either increase voltage ............. or decrease the more wrong you are with volt selection .......... the faster the stress test failures will come __________________ I still know nothing and I respect that fact, striving to improve and, along the way, help anyone that comes from the place that I used to be! Power Supply Selection LEARN TO BACK-UP YOUR DATA FREE & EASY YouTube - Runtime Software DriveImage XML tutorial

03-24-2009, 08:30 PM	#31 (permalink)
veritas88 Registered User Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 57 OS: XP, Vista, 7	Re: First overclock... I'm going to need help Sorry didn't mean to offend... Where would you recommend I go from here?

03-24-2009, 08:56 PM	#33 (permalink)
veritas88 Registered User Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 57 OS: XP, Vista, 7	Re: First overclock... I'm going to need help So are you saying I can't proceed with my current motherboard? Would it be pointless to try and OC the RAM w/o the CPU options?