Well I can tell you at least one thing you are doing wrong. And that's assigning every single MB of your RAM to Prime95. I'm surprised there wasn't any really wierdness that happened when you did that.
Yea, I'll be completely honest. My goal was to hit 2.6 GHz so that I could feel really good about only spending $180 on this chip and getting in return a FX-60 that ran cooler and more efficient. I hit that without breaking a sweat. So I thought I'd try for 2.8 since that's what I was running...
Ok, so I'm done finding out about all of my max OC's. Here's my question.
Is running tighter timings, or higher MHz on the RAM more important? To tie along with that question, how bad is it to use a memory divider? One guide I read said that running a divider will take a small performance...
Ok, I haven't posted in a while so this will be a huge update with the question at the end about the big problem.
So I proceeded on to the second step, seeing what is the max MHz I can squeeze out of the CPU. Well, my expectations were WAY surpassed. My goal was to just get 2.6 GHz to match...
Wow, thanks much GuitarDaddy. So that means I can just leave everything where it is? Is there anything to look at in the BIOS? The only lock that I saw was I believe for the PCI Bus. The options were Auto, To Cpu, and 33.333 MHz.
Seems that you have plenty of experience with the A8N-SLI...
Ahh, thanks. I was reading about Orthos and how it was an updated version of Prime95.
Anyone else? I really need to know about the mobo locks before I can do any overclocking since I dont want any data to be corrupted on my RAID setup.
I thought I would add in what info I pulled from CPU-Z, which may be helpful.
Name - AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+
Code Name - Toledo
Specification - AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+
Package - Socket 939
Family/Model/Stepping - F.3.2
Extended Family/Model - F.23
Brand ID -...
That was helpful with some of the memory stuff, thanks. Still hope to get help with some of the other stuff I asked about.
Also, in that link, it said that for the RAM Timings, the 5th number should be set to 1T. Mine has always been set to 2T, will changing that work on my system?
Also...
Majoring in Political Science, Minor in Business. Hope to go to Law School for my JD.
Originally started out as General Engineering major. Boy did I drop that fast once I saw how I was doing in my 2nd Calculus class.
I just swapped out my FX-55 for a new x2 4400+. I want to overclock it because doing this swap I lost 600MHz (I just increased the multiplier on the 55 to 14 to get 2.8GHz and stock the 4400+ is at 2.2Ghz, so big difference).
I saw the results I got from 3dMark06, while my CPU score went up...
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