Thread: Any OC'ing geeks?

Does anyone here over clock? :smiley-e: I figured why not be just a hard drive killer when I can be a CPU killer as well :laugh-e:

I've always been fascinated by it but never really got into it per say...I.E. spent big $$$ on HW geared specifically to OC'ing.





I'm doing a mild OC ATM, from bios changing the FSB from 200 to 210.

in the process I came across 2 really slick progs, cpu-z & HWMonitor

they give you a plethora of info...really cool.


I did an html dump if you want to see what cpu-z gives you in the way of specs, even gives you the RAM info!!...wicked! :afro:



CPU-Z 1.44.1 report file

Processor(s)

Number of processors 1
Number of cores 2 per processor
Number of threads 2 per processor
Name AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+
Code Name Windsor
Specification AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+
Package Socket AM2 (940)
Family/Model/Stepping F.3.2
Extended Family/Model F.43
Brand ID 4
Core Stepping JH-F2
Technology 90 nm
Core Speed 2730.6 MHz
Multiplier x Bus speed 13.0 x 210.0 MHz
HT Link speed 1050.2 MHz
Stock frequency 2600 MHz
Instruction sets MMX (+), 3DNow! (+), SSE, SSE2, SSE3, x86-64
L1 Data cache (per processor) 2 x 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64-byte line size
L1 Instruction cache (per processor) 2 x 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64-byte line size
L2 cache (per processor) 2 x 512 KBytes, 16-way set associative, 64-byte line size

Chipset & Memory

Northbridge NVIDIA nForce4 rev. A3
Southbridge NVIDIA nForce4 MCP rev. A3
Memory Type DDR2
Memory Size 3072 MBytes
Memory Frequency 341.3 MHz (CPU/8)
CAS# Latency (tCL) 5.0 clocks
RAS# to CAS# (tRCD) 5 clocks
RAS# Precharge (tRP) 5 clocks
Cycle Time (tRAS) 15 clocks
Bank Cycle Time (tRC) 21 clocks
Command Rate (CR) 2T

System

System Manufacturer SYX
System Name snc302eeh
System S/N
Mainboard Vendor Biostar
Mainboard Model NF4AM2
BIOS Vendor Phoenix Technologies, LTD
BIOS Version 6.00 PG
BIOS Date 08/24/2006

Memory SPD

Module 1 DDR2, PC2-5300 (333 MHz), 1024 MBytes, Kingston
Module 2 DDR2, PC2-6400 (400 MHz), 1024 MBytes, Nanya Technology
Module 3 DDR2, PC2-5300 (333 MHz), 1024 MBytes, Kingston

Software

Windows Version Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
DirectX Version 9.0c

timsdd added 5 Minutes and 52 Seconds later...

here's the dump from HWmon


CPUID Hardware Monitor 1.0.8.0
-----------------------------------------------------

Mainboard Vendor Biostar
Mainboard Model NF4AM2 (0x188 - 0x5BB040)

LPCIO
-----------------------------------------------------


Hardware monitor
-----------------------------------------------------

ITE IT87 hardware monitor

Voltage sensor 0 1.33 Volts [0x53] (CPU VCORE)
Voltage sensor 1 1.52 Volts [0x5F] (VIN1)
Voltage sensor 2 3.30 Volts [0xCE] (+3.3V)
Voltage sensor 3 4.95 Volts [0xB8] (+5V)
Voltage sensor 4 11.90 Volts [0xBA] (+12V)
Voltage sensor 5 -7.74 Volts [0x79] (-12V)
Voltage sensor 6 -4.74 Volts [0x4A] (-5V)
Voltage sensor 7 4.95 Volts [0xB8] (+5V VCCH)
Voltage sensor 8 3.38 Volts [0xD3] (VBAT)
Temperature sensor 2 24°C (75°F) [0x18] (TMPIN2)
Fan sensor 0 1409 RPM [0x1DF] (FANIN0)
Fan sensor 1 2003 RPM [0x151] (FANIN1)




Hardware monitor
-----------------------------------------------------

ACPI hardware monitor

Temperature sensor 0 40°C (103°F) [0xC3C] (THRM)

Dump hardware monitor



Hardware monitor
-----------------------------------------------------

AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ hardware monitor

Temperature sensor 0 27°C (80°F) [0x4C] (core #0)
Temperature sensor 1 35°C (94°F) [0x54] (core #1)

Dump hardware monitor



Hardware monitor
-----------------------------------------------------

Maxtor 6H500R0 hardware monitor

Temperature sensor 0 33°C (91°F) [0x21] (HDD)

Dump hardware monitor



Hardware monitor
-----------------------------------------------------

WDC WD2500JS-00NCB1 hardware monitor

Temperature sensor 0 33°C (91°F) [0x21] (HDD)

Dump hardware monitor


Processors Map
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Number of processors 1
Number of threads 2

Processor 0
-- Core 0
-- Thread 0
-- Core 1
-- Thread 0


Processors Information
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Processor 1 (ID = 0)
Number of cores 2 (max 2)
Number of threads 2 (max 2)
Name AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+
Codename Windsor
Specification AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+
Package Socket AM2 (940)
CPUID F.3.2
Extended CPUID F.43
Brand ID 4
Core Stepping JH-F2
Technology 90 nm
Core Speed 2730.7 MHz (13.0 x 210.1 MHz)
HT Link speed 1050.3 MHz
Stock frequency 2600 MHz
Instructions sets MMX (+), 3DNow! (+), SSE, SSE2, SSE3, x86-64
L1 Data cache 2 x 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64-byte line size
L1 Instruction cache 2 x 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64-byte line size
L2 cache 2 x 512 KBytes, 16-way set associative, 64-byte line size
FID/VID Control yes
max FID 13.0x
max VID 1.350 V
Features XD, VT
K8 Thermal sensor yes
K8 Revision ID 5.2
Attached device PCI device at bus 0, device 24, function 0
Attached device PCI device at bus 0, device 24, function 1
Attached device PCI device at bus 0, device 24, function 2
Attached device PCI device at bus 0, device 24, function 3




Drive
-----------------------------------------------------
Name Maxtor 6H500R0

Drive
-----------------------------------------------------
Name WDC WD2500JS-00NCB1

Drive
-----------------------------------------------------
Name Sony USB HS-xD/SM

Drive
-----------------------------------------------------
Name Sony USB HS-MS Card

Drive
-----------------------------------------------------
Name Sony USB HS-SD Card

I have partaken in the past.

Originally Posted by Zap

I have partaken in the past.

did you ever smoke your cpu? :shocked-e:

Originally Posted by Zap

I have partaken in the past.

The same

Sucked when you go to far and get a blue screen and have to reformat! Not that it ever happened to me of course!

Originally Posted by GRIM

The same

Sucked when you go to far and get a blue screen and have to reformat! Not that it ever happened to me of course!

that would byte!! :undecided-e:

i'm goiing to monitor temps & stuff...of course once summer is full bore, this room will be +10easy :angry-e:

if I wanted to get a boost, where would you recomend I start?

Originally Posted by WikicyloN

if I wanted to get a boost, where would you recomend I start?

not with advice from me :wink-e:

i'd start w/ those 2 progs, see whatchu got cookin under the hood :cool-e:

ok, so I got a report from those programs. now what? where is the switch I flip to put a turbo booster on this chip?

Have you oc'd your vid card yet?

Originally Posted by WikicyloN

ok, so I got a report from those programs. now what? where is the switch I flip to put a turbo booster on this chip?

first and foremost you need to make sure the CPU's temp is not off the charts...have to do a search on that and see what the normal operating temperature is.

if you have a mid to high range MOBO, the m,fg might even provide a OC utility on their website and you can OC from windows. otherwise you're looking at adjust the setting from within your bios.

so I restarted my machine, hit del, and then found the voltage and Freq control...found the CPU's bus speed, the default is 200, I change it to 205 rebooted and then once convinced it was stable I did the same thing and now I am @ 210.

and really the best way to check stability is to run a benchmark program that really stresses the CPU/Mem but I have not done that yet...stable for me is no blue screen :shocked-e:

Originally Posted by GRIM

Have you oc'd your vid card yet?

me? no...where do you even tweak that? bios?

Originally Posted by timsdd

me? no...where do you even tweak that? bios?

Depends on the vid card, some 'last i did it' you had to download hacks for the registry and or third party software.

Do a search for your vid card

Originally Posted by GRIM

Depends on the vid card, some 'last i did it' you had to download hacks for the registry and or third party software.

Do a search for your vid card

sounds like a headaches :shocked-e:

what I really need is a 50K rpm Sata VII HDD :laugh-e:

well it rejected 215 like a bad liver. I was doing a scan of some sort (virus) and BAM!! BSOD, one of those sweet "Stop 0×0000000A: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL -" errors

betchu anything it's memory related...not being match pairs, 2 diff mfgs, and so on.