Hey Bill,
You gave me some instructions and asked that I post back so here goes. You said to set a 2.00 memory multiplier with loose timings (set to auto which I believe is 5-5-5-18) but left voltage at +0,300. The other voltages are at +0.1 and PCI-E is at 102MHz. I started FSB at 300 and Vcore at 1.375V. Got all the way to 339 FSB at 1.375 without memtest issues although Orthos failed with errors in seconds at those settings but you told me to test until there were memtest errors. At 342 & 1.375V the system would not boot. I had to go all the way to 1.40625V to get the system to boot at 342 MHz FSB! Again, no errors in memtest (did not try logging in to Windows). I then bumped the FSB to 345 and got all the way to 1.45625V and still could not get the system to boot. I then increased the FSB voltage from 0.1 to 0.15 and then 0.20 and still could not get the system to boot so I gave up.
It appears to me that my bottleneck is the CPU. It simply will not overclock to past 3GHz (339 * 9 = 3.051). If you are in agreement, I think I'll go back to 339 FSB and start raising the voltage to see if I can find a stable overclock at that speed. I'm really dissappointed because the person that turned me on to your post has the same CPU on a DS3 board and is running at 3.4 GHz at 1.46V with less cooling than I have.
Looking forward to your response!
Thanks,
Vlip
You gave me some instructions and asked that I post back so here goes. You said to set a 2.00 memory multiplier with loose timings (set to auto which I believe is 5-5-5-18) but left voltage at +0,300. The other voltages are at +0.1 and PCI-E is at 102MHz. I started FSB at 300 and Vcore at 1.375V. Got all the way to 339 FSB at 1.375 without memtest issues although Orthos failed with errors in seconds at those settings but you told me to test until there were memtest errors. At 342 & 1.375V the system would not boot. I had to go all the way to 1.40625V to get the system to boot at 342 MHz FSB! Again, no errors in memtest (did not try logging in to Windows). I then bumped the FSB to 345 and got all the way to 1.45625V and still could not get the system to boot. I then increased the FSB voltage from 0.1 to 0.15 and then 0.20 and still could not get the system to boot so I gave up.
It appears to me that my bottleneck is the CPU. It simply will not overclock to past 3GHz (339 * 9 = 3.051). If you are in agreement, I think I'll go back to 339 FSB and start raising the voltage to see if I can find a stable overclock at that speed. I'm really dissappointed because the person that turned me on to your post has the same CPU on a DS3 board and is running at 3.4 GHz at 1.46V with less cooling than I have.
Looking forward to your response!
Thanks,
Vlip