I can get my cpu up to 3.2, possibly further with some better cooling, but my ram seems to be the limitation. she doesnt like to overclock 1:1 much past 216, and then one of my pci devices decides to bitch (probably the HD) because of the overclocked pci setting. I got the cpu up to 3.2 with a 5:4 divider on the ram with 2.5-6-2-2 timings and she was stable at that point. is it worth it though? it seems underclocking the ram hurts performance enough to yield only nominal gains from the overclock. I actually got more performance from 3dmark03 from overclocking the vid card at normal cpu speeds than i did with keeping the vid card at stock speeds and the cpu at 3.2....
Maybe i should overclock the vid card to its highest stable potential and then begin try overclock to 3.2 with the ram divider set ti 5:4 and see what i get then?
There was a question somewhere in all this... i lost track of it though any suggestions, what would you do?
I also put all the mem timings down to their lowest setting and overclocked 1:1 divider to 3.2 GHZ (233FSB), but it seems its another trade off, higher cpu, but tradeoff of the hurt performance for the bad ram timings, yielding only a slight gain.
Maybe i should overclock the vid card to its highest stable potential and then begin try overclock to 3.2 with the ram divider set ti 5:4 and see what i get then?
There was a question somewhere in all this... i lost track of it though any suggestions, what would you do?
I also put all the mem timings down to their lowest setting and overclocked 1:1 divider to 3.2 GHZ (233FSB), but it seems its another trade off, higher cpu, but tradeoff of the hurt performance for the bad ram timings, yielding only a slight gain.