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Here's my little overclocking story. Was I sucessful? Did I kill my cpu? Well, you gotta read
First, let me give you my computer specs.
Athlon XP 2.0 GHZ 2400+
Soyo KT-400 Dragon Ultra Black Edt. Mobo
1x 512 pc2700 DDR (going to be 2x)
Radeon 9000 Pro, 128 version (Yes, it exists)
With this, my benchmark scores were
Benchmark #1 - 4168
Benchmark #2 - 3534-L
Benchmark #2 - 2783-H
Blah I thought So I looked at CPU-z and it said my FSB was 133.
Well, to much of my doubght I decided to overclock my FSB (Front Side Bus). I was wasting my ram because it was 166 (333 DDR). And my FSB was 133.
Defult settings for my CPU were a 15x Multiplyer on a 133 Bus. So I decided to go with 12x on the 166 Bus to maintain the 2.0GHz line.
After going into bios, and setting the settings I looked at voltage.
(Defult). Shit, I had no idea what it's Defult value was. I then had to exit the computer bios, go back into windows, load cpu-z and check that out. Turns out it was at 1.8v! :dead: Well that was just too much needed for my overclocking, so I droped it to 1.65, and changed it.
After a small reboot after the bios changes windows didn't seem to load, Hum... I said, back into bios we go. I changed the voltage to 1.7 this time to see if it would boot. Restart. Beep. Eeeerrrrrraaaannn (harddrive being accessed). Wahoo! Passed the post! Windows boots. I then continue to load my HW Info program from Soyo that tells me my current system temps.
It was finaly time to test the machine. 100% cpu usage for 5 hours. I loaded Prime95 to do this stress test. My CPU instantly jumped up to 49*C as soon as it started running. Running hot I thought hum... 50, .... great.... 51.... not good.... 55*c was the max after 5 hours. I was happy with it so... (it hit 55*C in 20 mins and stayed there).
After I let things cool down a bit I restarted and decided to try FFXI Benchmarks to see if I got any inprovement.
FFXI Benchmarks after Overclocking of the FSB
Benchmark #1 - 4870
Benchmark #2 - 3832-L
Benchmark #2 - 2958-H
Still wasn't good enough. So I decided to go back into the bios and edit my ram settings. Wow, everything was set to by spd. so I was like, well shit. This is going to suck. After the editing of the ram settings, and a very fast post for some reason. XP decided to load the fastest I've ever seen it load. I got back into windows and decided to run the benchmarks again.
After Ram tuning
Benchmark #1 - 4980
Benchmark #2 - 3923-L
Benchmark #2 - 2976-H
Not much inprovement. But I'm trying to break 5000 on the #1, and 4000-L, and atleast 3200-H I don't know what else to do. A new video card is comming soon 9800 (NP, going to be oc'd to be pro). What else do you thinik I could do? Yes, my overclocking was sucessful! It still works and runs fine! w00t :D.
Word of caution. If you DON'T know what your doing. If you don't know what I'm talking about with Multiplyers, and FSB, please, don't change anythign in your bios, you can REALLY mess up your PC.
Anyway, does anyone else have any overclocking storys?
First, let me give you my computer specs.
Athlon XP 2.0 GHZ 2400+
Soyo KT-400 Dragon Ultra Black Edt. Mobo
1x 512 pc2700 DDR (going to be 2x)
Radeon 9000 Pro, 128 version (Yes, it exists)
With this, my benchmark scores were
Benchmark #1 - 4168
Benchmark #2 - 3534-L
Benchmark #2 - 2783-H
Blah I thought
So I looked at CPU-z and it said my FSB was 133.Well, to much of my doubght I decided to overclock my FSB (Front Side Bus). I was wasting my ram because it was 166 (333 DDR). And my FSB was 133.
Defult settings for my CPU were a 15x Multiplyer on a 133 Bus. So I decided to go with 12x on the 166 Bus to maintain the 2.0GHz line.
After going into bios, and setting the settings I looked at voltage.
(Defult). Shit, I had no idea what it's Defult value was. I then had to exit the computer bios, go back into windows, load cpu-z and check that out. Turns out it was at 1.8v! :dead: Well that was just too much needed for my overclocking, so I droped it to 1.65, and changed it.
After a small reboot after the bios changes windows didn't seem to load, Hum... I said, back into bios we go. I changed the voltage to 1.7 this time to see if it would boot. Restart. Beep. Eeeerrrrrraaaannn (harddrive being accessed). Wahoo! Passed the post! Windows boots. I then continue to load my HW Info program from Soyo that tells me my current system temps.
It was finaly time to test the machine. 100% cpu usage for 5 hours. I loaded Prime95 to do this stress test. My CPU instantly jumped up to 49*C as soon as it started running. Running hot I thought hum... 50, .... great.... 51.... not good.... 55*c was the max after 5 hours. I was happy with it so... (it hit 55*C in 20 mins and stayed there).
After I let things cool down a bit I restarted and decided to try FFXI Benchmarks to see if I got any inprovement.
FFXI Benchmarks after Overclocking of the FSB
Benchmark #1 - 4870
Benchmark #2 - 3832-L
Benchmark #2 - 2958-H
Still wasn't good enough. So I decided to go back into the bios and edit my ram settings. Wow, everything was set to by spd. so I was like, well shit. This is going to suck. After the editing of the ram settings, and a very fast post for some reason. XP decided to load the fastest I've ever seen it load. I got back into windows and decided to run the benchmarks again.
After Ram tuning
Benchmark #1 - 4980
Benchmark #2 - 3923-L
Benchmark #2 - 2976-H
Not much inprovement. But I'm trying to break 5000 on the #1, and 4000-L, and atleast 3200-H I don't know what else to do. A new video card is comming soon 9800 (NP, going to be oc'd to be pro). What else do you thinik I could do? Yes, my overclocking was sucessful! It still works and runs fine! w00t :D.
Word of caution. If you DON'T know what your doing. If you don't know what I'm talking about with Multiplyers, and FSB, please, don't change anythign in your bios, you can REALLY mess up your PC.
Anyway, does anyone else have any overclocking storys?
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