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OVERCLOCKING NIGHTMARE: need ADVICE

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eddie500

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System Specs:

Barton2500+ 333mHZ
DFI Ultra mother board
1 gig, 2x512 Mushkin level I RAM 3500
Silent Boost with AS3
Radeon9800 PRO.
antEC truE pOWER 430WATT

I just bought a 2500Barton XP and everything runs good at normal settings. When I went to overclock it to 3200 like most of you say is guarenteed I ran into shit load of problems.

WHen I just jump the FSB to 200MHZ, it would not load windows XP fully. Max I could go was about 190MHZ FSB to load into windows XP.

Then I started to see if it was my ram or CPU. I set that 5:4 6:5 options to go 200MHZ ram and like 166 CPU, and it would not load, (Numbers not exact for CPU)

I then tried 200MHZ CPU and 166 RAM and it would still not boot into winowsXP. (Number not exact for RAM), SO I don't get why my PC3500 ram won't do 200MHZ???? That ram should be rated at 216 or something.

After doing these 5:4 ratios I had to reset my CMOS cause it would not even boot into BIOS just black. THen When I set everything back to default my windowsXP would not load up anymore, so I had to do a repair on the WINDOWS XP!

So whats up here! is there some setting I have to change? WHy the corrupted WInXP and bios. HELP! need advice! Did I get a shit CPU or RAM?
Will I damage my new components by overclocking? I knew I should of just spent the extra 80bucks and bought a 3200XP, THIS really sucks.
 
Overclocking offers no guarantees, so it's certainly possible you bought one that doesn't OC very well. Your not going to be able to exchange it for that reason either, so it looks like your stuck with it.
 
Up the CPU and Ram voltage? Is that necessary for 3200overclocks?

How much should I up the voltage? Also if I have 3500 ram, and only going to 200MHZ speeds do I have to up the voltage on the ram?
 
Upping the CPU voltage is definitely a requirement of overclocking most of the time. Remember going from 1.83GHz to 2.2GHz is quite a jump over stock, I would definitely start by bumping up the CPU voltage a bit. Many people find between 1.7v and 1.85v to work for 2500+ to 3200+ overclocks. Neither of these voltages should harm your CPU, but you do have a "quieter" cooling solution so temps might get a bit on the hot side (read: 50C+) at times but as long as it stays below the mid-60s there's not too much to worry about.
 
YES, Right now I"m at 3200 speeds on my 2500 barton!

I upped my cpu voltage to 1.7 volts.

Now the question is, is it better to run at lower voltage then higher? SHould I back off on the voltage until my system runs stable?

Also I don't have to touch the ram voltage if the computer is running fine at a higher CPU voltage?
 
I was able to boot into windows XP at 3200 speeds, but as soon as I played some games I would get errors right away. But at least I can say that I'm part way their at overclocking my system.
To get it stable at 200Mhz may require even higher voltage then 1.7 volts. I don't think its a ram issue becuase i have 3500 rated ram.
 
Bump the volts a little more. be careful over 1.8...

Get prime95, good tool for testing stabilit.y
 
Originally posted by lopoetve
Bump the volts a little more. be careful over 1.8...
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wats the limit u should go up to on air cooling
 
You just need more CPU voltage, download Prime95 and then runs tests and gradually up your voltage until it is stable running that. Remember to keep an eye on your temps as you up voltage. There is no "limit" that you should need to stay behind, but after a certain point the life of your component decreases. Just keep things cool (<50 if possible) and don't go higher than 1.85 volts, if you want to play it safe.
 
I had to bump mine up to 1.85 to get my 2500+@3200+ stable. Anything less and the Asus chick would yell at me and so would windows.
 
You may want to try playing with the latency on the RAM a bit. Some RAM doesn't like to run some settings at certain FSB speeds.

I also highly suggest running memtest86 to see if you get any RAM errors at what you have the RAM currently running at.

Sometimes with RAM, even though it's running slower than stock speeds, it may need a bit more voltage depanding on the timings you have it set at.

Remember, overclocking to a certain speed is not guaranteed. You may have just gotten a CPU that won't do the 3200+ speeds. It sucks if that is what happened but it's actually more common than you would think. A lot of people post about the great overclocks they have gotten. I'd bet that most of the people with lousy overclocks don't post about it.
 
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