I’m in the OC now. No, not California, overclocking-land. Since getting the machine together I’ve been researching and tweaking, researching and tweaking. My first 3DMark06 score was 4656. Since then I’ve oc’d the graphics card (gpu from 475 to 525, mem 1360 to 1500), tuned the ram timings to the rated values instead of SPD (now at 2-3-3-6-1T from 3-3-3-8), and last night I started overclocking the cpu and fsb (actually htt for AMD).
I was sad to (re)discover that the cpu multiplier for the X2 cant be changed in the BIOS – it’s stuck at 11. Oddly enough though it can change itself – at one point I had the fsb cranked way up and the multiplier dropped itself to 9. I’m currently at my conservative goal of 2.42GHz (fsb at 220 and multiplier at 11). The is with the RAM still at 2-3-3-6-1T with a speed divider of 12, making the run at 201.7MHz – which isn’t really oc’d, but the timings are tight. The best part right now, is that everything is still at default voltages (1.39 core, 2.6 ram). I know I can take things a little higher with overvolting, but I don’t want to go too much higher (especially while all my cooling is still stock). Now that I’ve matched a stock 4800+ I’m pretty happy.
Latest 3DMark06: 5100 (will post more detailed stats later). I still need to run it through a prime95 test for stability, but gaming is working great.
Tags: Comp hardware / mods
