Can't Overclock To 3200+

[Keikan]

Ugh i gotta scratch the pad off
and lap the damned thing

[Virtualbody1234]

Lap? Why?

Use your fingernail and then some acetone to remove the pad material.

[Keikan]

ok

[Keikan]

ok

my plans are to:

-Get rid of the crappy pad and use some quality as5
-Replace the 80mm intake with a good ol 120mm
-cut some bigger holes at the back so exsaust air can actually flow out

how do you take the mother board out the of crap case?

[lynx]

Originally posted by Keikan@2 August 2004 - 07:46
ok

my plans are to:

-Get rid of the crappy pad and use some quality as5
-Replace the 80mm intake with a good ol 120mm
-cut some bigger holes at the back so exsaust air can actually flow out

how do you take the mother board out the of crap case?

Does the case have a removeable motherboard tray? Even some of the crappy ones have that. If so, there should be about 4 screws holding the tray to the back panel, after removing those you should be able to slide the tray out. If you are lucky you can pull it out enough without removing any wires, and still be able to get at the HSF clips easily.

If it doesn't have a removeable tray it will be fastened to the backplane with about 9 screws, but of course you will need to remove all the wires (internal and external) from the mobo first. Make sure you know EXACTLY where to put them back (and in the case of the led wires which way round) before you start.

[Keikan]

ugh do i have to put take out the mobo to put on and off the heatsink?

no sliding tray

[clocker]

No, you can replace the HS with the board in place...usually.
It might be a pain, depending on the layout of the case...especially if the PSU is right on top of the socket area.

BTW, if possible, you might want to increase your vDIMM (RAM voltage) instead of the chip voltage.
If your instability is due to RAM issues that will help more than upping the vCore.

[Keikan]

is it easier to take out the psu??

how do i know it's ram problemos?
ever heard of this twinmos ram? is it good for ocing

the hould be at 2.6 right?

[clocker]

is it easier to take out the psu??

Maybe.
You'll have to decide.

how do i know it's ram problemos?

The way I tried was to up the FSB/multiplier to the speed I wanted while leaving the RAM speed at auto.
Then try to tighten the RAM timing until it won't boot.
THEN increase the RAM voltage and see if it will run.

I'm not really a good source of info for this.
Basically, I realized that the battle to squeeze every last Hz out of my equipment wasn't really something I was interested in.
With no real effort at all I had already achieved 3200 speeds ( 2.2GHZ) and frankly, couldn't see much in the way of impact on my (admittedly) light demands on the machine.
Temps were fine and stability was good, so I stopped.

Someone who spent more energy than I might be able to take you further.

[Keikan]

ok today i went and got some titan silver oxide (it sound really bad) there is no such thing as as5 in this country ok we have it for $15....plus shipping ($30)

and 120mm fans don't exsist well at $30 special ordered....