How'd I do and how to improve?

[Jimmy Swanson]

I'm new to all of this overclocking stuff and am looking for some feedback. After some initial issues (bad stick of Corsair ram*frustrating*) I've been playing around in the bios. I've been trying to learn more about all of this to figure out exactly which settings to change. All I've done so far is changed "Cpu Host Frequency" (that's the FSB, right?) to 350Mhz, PCI Express to 100Mhz and System Memory Multiplier to 2.0. It checks out to be stable at 3150Mhz and while instead using 300Mhz at 2.5 as well.

My question is, where do I go from here? I tried raising the FSB to 375 and 400 and the settings don't stick after reboot. It's not that I don't think going from 1.8 to 3.1 isn't great, I'm just trying to learn more about all of this. Such as, I read a lot about memory timings or running at 1:1 ratio but I don't quite know how to address such settings as I don't see any options. Also, is it true that Intel TAT reports temps over 10 degrees higher on the 4300? They are at least always 10 over CoreTemp's readings. I'm currently at 3.1Ghz and 51 degrees stressing with Orthos so says CoreTemp. I think the only heat issue I have currently is the Northbridge because it's ridiculously hot.

 

[BillParrish]

Yes you need to put a fan on that NB !
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1158981

go with coretemp.

Make sure your Vdimm is set to 2.0 volts default is 1.8 by the motherboard so set it to +.2

Leave memory divider at 2:1.

Set your Vcore (cpu voltage) to 1.35 to start you might need to go higer but watch your temps like a hawk. If you are on stock intel HS you will be limited by temps pretty quickly.

Take memory timings off of spd/auto and put in your timings the memory is speced for 4 4 4 12 or 5 5 5 15 and it depends on which xms you got, sticker on ram should say.

do a forum search on "DS3" and read it all.

you need to turn off all the cpu speed throttleing stuff and force the fan to run on high all the time.

 

[Jimmy Swanson]

Thanks for the info. I figured out how to get the bios to show more settings so I can change the memory timings.

I let my computer (at the settings in my first post) run Orthos and just looked at it and it was at 16 hours. Oddly, enough I left the room and it began beeping. I've read that Orthos stresses your computer more than normal use would, I know ideally one would want it to run for days without errors, but is there an hour mark that is likely sufficient?