Need help setting up a new PC to overclock

[Cintirich]

Hi folks,

The last piece I need to boot my new build has been ordered and is on the way...exciting!

I could use a little help though. This will be my first build ever and I plan on overclocking. I'm wondering if there is any guide somewhere that goes through, pretty much step-by-step, how to tweak all my settings to get my system ready to overclock. Things such as what settings to set the mobo to...I've seen people write about locking/unlocking the PCI bus speeds, disabling/enabling cool n' quiet, ect....

My specs are listed in my sig.

Any [H]elp would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!
Rich

 

[whiskey29]

Well, here's something I posted earlier for someone else.
Bios is F6 now.

"Now, some get different result with different BIOS, I use F4E. Dunno about other higher version. Anyway, you need to set the MCH FSB and DImm voltage manually (not on Auto) because I noticed that the mobo will increase them automatically as you raise the CPU clock.
Also you might have to tinker with your memory timing. in the BIOS main page, hit Ctrl-F1, then go to MIT menu you should see additional menu for adjusting the memory timing. I think you can leave them to Auto, but I find that it tend to set very loose timing as you increase the clock speed. You can always go back to that after you have find the max limitation of your ram and CPU and reduce timing as tight as possible later on.

Go to PC health status and dissable the Fan speed control method, so your CPU fan will run at 100%
Go to Integrated pheriperals disable whatever you are not using such as USB moue n keyboard, parallel, serial, etc. I read that USB keyboard and mouse support limit the overclocking.
Then go to advance bios features, disable CPUID, C1E,EIST and virtualization technology.
then go to MIT and Set Mch FSB and Dimm voltage to +0.1, system memory multilier to 2 and incerase the CPU host frequency to 333.

Now since you got 667 ram, if you set fsb ratio to 1:1 then you should get 333*7 = 2.3ghz instantly assuming that you CPU can handle that speed. The ram is ok since it's rated at that speed.

If it boots then test the CPU using SP2004, test the CPU only, if it shows no error after say, 1 hour, I'd say you can go higher.
You can go back and increase the system clock, say 30 at a time, if it refuses to boot, reduce the system clock to where it will boot. if it doesnt' boot then the mobo will boot serveral times and automatically recover the BIOS to default clock speed and default setting in MIT so you need to go back and set the clock to a point where it boots.
If it boots then go to SP2004 and do blend test. (some prefer 32m super-pi to do first stability test, you need to copy them to 2 folders and run them individually at the same time, while SP2004 got a multi processor version). I would run the test for 10 minutes. Since I found that if it will fail, it will fail in 10 minutes. Then it's really not stable. If it go pass 10 minutes I'll increse the clock speed, that way you'd reduce your waiting time.
If it fail in small FFT, you might need to increase CPU voltage by one step at a time and test again(remember I got 3.3ghz with 1.35625 voltage, you want just enough voltage to prevent execive heat).
If it fail in large FFT, go back and increase mch and fsb voltage first, if it still fail then increase dimm voltage.
My system only require +0.2 MCH FSB and DIMM. My mem just refuse to boot at higher clock speeed no matter how much voltage increase I can give.

By the way, put a 4cm fan on the north bridge HS. It really helps with higher speed.
WIth 667 ram you might be fine with stock HS since you can't really pump it up too much
Just launch core temp and see what it say about your temp. if it say below 60 full load with the worst room temperatur then it should be just fine.
You can always try artic silver and lapping the HS before purchasing better HS.

That was how I found the max limit of my system, I hope it could help you and save your time."

Hope that helps.
Btw, we got similar base setup but it doesn't guarante it would run same, it could be better or less good.
So you might want to try to imitate someone else setup right away and see if it runs. So go to the first post in Intel FOrum, and just browse and read everybody setup which similar to your system.

 

[Cintirich]

Thank you, that's exactly what I was looking for!