Help OCING a Amd64 3400+ (Newcastle)

[Grompy]

well I just recently got curious on tweaking my CPU and have read many posts/guides on how to do it, but I'm still confused many of the options that they say to change i cannot find in my bios whatsoever so I'm hoping somone can help me out... here are some pics of my equip and options in bios...

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a270/grompy/misc/info.jpg
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a270/grompy/misc/khghvbk.jpg
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a270/grompy/misc/fgasg.jpg
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a270/grompy/misc/easd.jpg

any help would be appreciated and thanks in advance ^^ :)

[Raybo]

I'm not familiar with your CPU but you might want to start with leaving your multi at 12X and running your ram at 133 and try to up your HTT.

More info on your rig might be a start for better tips.

:toast:

[Grompy]

CPU (as you know) AMD 64 3400+ (Newcastle)
K8V SE Deluxe Motherboard
OCZ GameXStream 700W power supply
Radeon 9800 Pro AIW vid card
Kingston HyperX (2 x 512MB) Unbuffered DDR 400 Dual Channel

anything else needed let mehz know :D

[Grompy]

CPU is water cooled by some cheapy water cooler that i won at QuakeCon 06

COOLER MASTER RL-MUA-EBU1 120mm Long life sleeve braring AQUAGATE Mini R120 Liquid Cooling System (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835103165)

case temp is usually pretty cool vid card used to run hawt, but i got a dual fan thingy blowing on it now so it runs nice and cool now :D 80mm fan on the side and top of the case and a 120mm makes the temp nice in cool inside my case..

[L'enFer]

Grompy, try to overclock it not with BIOS, but with some soft.

[bestmancajun]

Dh7-cg are old chips. You probably get around 2.6Ghz+ on water. You can go up to 1.7V safely.

[Grompy]

okz what software would you recommend using like i said i r a nub at this entire overclocking thing :\ thx again :D

[L'enFer]

EasyTune :). u can find it on the disk with the drivers for motherboard. or (if u have noneGigabyte mboard) SysTool, ClockGen, CpuFSB...

[ownage]

Your Spi scores aren't good.
My old Newcastle 3200 scored (s754) 40,4 sec on stock.

I wouldn't OC an Newcastle, because the can't.
Ur lucky if you hit 2450mhz stable.

[JamesBong420]

lies...... i have a 3000 newcastle that does 2.7 on air with 1.65 volts... 2.8 with 1.8.... but i did 1.8 volts with chilled water..

edit: s754 as well.......

[L'enFer]

ownage, he would be lucky if he could do 3 ghz.

[ownage]

OK, but most Newcastles didn't clock well. So he doesn't have to hope for 2600mhz or more, but if his Newcastel could do it, that would be really nice.:)

[Avman]

I never had great results with Newcastles either - they seemed to do ok up to about 2.5-2.6Ghz but I could never get higher.

If I remember correctly, 1.65v CPU was reasonably cool on water (adjust voltages as you like but keep the CPU temp under 50C load).

If you're not sure how good the ram is, use a divider to keep it close to stock until you are more sure of the CPU.

[Holst]

I wouldnt recomend using software overclcok on 745, i found it to be buggy as hell and more unstable.
Might be good for testing but its not reliable IMO.

[L'enFer]

keep the CPU temp under 50C load
why? my 3000+ could stay on temp 63 degrees C (with stock voltage) :D. and now it works stable, but on stock frequency.