My New Overclock

[clocker]

Is that 50°c at idle or full load, Lynx?

[lynx]

That's full load (I would be tearing my hair out if it was idle), and it has crept up to 52C now.

Tried it at 1.70V nominal and immediately started getting problems with folding. Everything appears to be ok at 1.75V though.

My ram bandwidth appears to have dropped though, it doesn't seem to make any difference if I use 3-3-3-8 or 3-3-3-11.

Paused folding to test mem bandwidth, temp has dropped to 46C in about 1 minute and still going down.

I think I'll try pushing it a little further to see what I can get out of it, but I will probably drop back to 2.2GHz as a permanent setting.

[clocker]

Yeah, it's fun to see how high you can go, but even the most avid clocker would be foolhardy to run on the ragged edge as a matter of course.

Judging from your avatar, you haven't much hair left to ravage....

[lynx]

Were he still alive, Mr Milligan would have been most upset by that suggestion. He actually had a very good head of hair (unlike me) but it had turned very light in colour. One of our greatest comedians, IMO.

Temp seems to have levelled off at 52C, Folding seems quite happy (been going about an hour now). I'll leave it like this until the morning, then give it the next nudge upwards. At least I know I can drop down and run at about 47C with slightly more conservative settings. And I have to consider what might happen when the weather gets warmer.

[bigdawgfoxx]

I have it running at 210X11 (2300) so 420Mhz FSB and full load at 46C.

I want to up it more but my 400Mhz ram is at 420Mhz and my chipset is getting stressed ALOT (i think)...I really need to unlock the CPU...

The cpu seems to be unlocked.

When I change the multi and the speed, it DOES change the stuff...and leaves the Multi changed to 13 or w/e...the only problem is that when i right click on my computer and click properties..instead of having it at like 2340Mhz...which I would set it at..it would be set at like 2160 or something....so its WIERD..but seems to be unlocked..

[lynx]

I tried changing the multiplier in bios the other day, but it did not seem to have any effect. I'm pretty sure I've read somewhere that AMD have blocked whatever Asus were doing, so although the bios says it has changed you have still got the default multiplier.

[mr. nails]

you may know this or not, but if u had some pc3500 in there u would def. get it higher. yeah, i'v heard some really good things about those 2500's. all for $90 at that!

[mr. nails]

Originally posted by lynx@26 February 2004 - 14:43
I tried changing the multiplier in bios the other day, but it did not seem to have any effect. I'm pretty sure I've read somewhere that AMD have blocked whatever Asus were doing, so although the bios says it has changed you have still got the default multiplier.

and also, depends on how old that 2500 is. amd started locking them cuz of what ur saying and yes, no matter what ur bios says it will still be locked. unless u know how to unlock the chip by connecting the circuits on top of chip together to unlock it. (something like that)

[lynx]

All the new chips except FX51 are locked, including Bartons, Durons and Thorougbreds. No-one has found ANY way to unlock them so far including wire tricks, jumping bridges etc.

Only processors made before week 35 of 2003 are unlocked. For about the next 7 weeks after that some were locked, some were unlocked. After that all were locked except for a few in week 46.

Source

[Mad Cat]

Originally posted by lynx@26 February 2004 - 21:32
All the new chips except FX51 are locked

Lucky me eh?

I don't really see why I'd need to OC this thing yet though...

Anyway why are you ocing? A 2500+ is easily enough for every app nowadays, and OCing can have negative effects on your chip. Unless you want to fold faster, I don't see why as yet.