Opteron 146 @ 2.4ghz - needing a little guidance

[Panzer]

Hey guys, I'm new on here :wave:

Just looking for some direction of the professionals ;)

I was on a budget and I don't think this is at all worthy enough to go into the "Xtreme Overclocking" section, so I put it here.

My specs are:

AMD Opteron 146 (with Athlon X2 4600+ heatsink) @ 2.4ghz
2x512MB Dual Channel GeIL PC3200 DDR RAM
ASRock 939Dual-SATA2
Inno3D 7300GT DDR2 @ 442mhz core, 442mhz memory clock

I think that's all thats needed for you guys to know (let me know if there's more you need to know).

All I've done so far is open up the PCI-E lane from 100mhz to 102mhz and the FSB from 200 to 240 and the chip is on 10x multiplier.

I've heard this chip can go to 3ghz, but I know I won't get that with stock heatsink and I can't afford more. I also don't want to touch the voltages. So I'm basically looking for some direction on vanilla overclocking.

Is there anything I can do more to improve system performance? - I know it may be asking a bit, but if I could squeeze a bit more out, I'd love it :D

Here's my pic so far of OCing:

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/7502/opty24gob9.jpg

BTW, my highest on 3DMark03 is 9044.

Thanks guys :D

:clap:

[Borgschulze]

You will have to run a memory divider.

Because you are pushing the memory to DDR480, it is most likely limiting the CPU.

[Panzer]

Thank you both for the response.

When I first booted it up the memory was showing as DDR333, so I had to set it to DDR400. So if it's running at DDR480 that's bad isn't it?

So how would I run a memory divider? The BIOS seems to be plentiful of overclocking options and I can manually adjust the memory timings.

Sorry to sound so new at all this, but why is the HT link under 1000 so important? and also, do I literally just select 1T instead of whatever it is in BIOS?

Thanks again :)

[GOATSLAYER]

set it to 166 for now, and see how high your FSB wil go.

[Panzer]

set it to 166 for now, and see how high your FSB wil go.

It went to 255 FSB and made a noise at boot. Like an alarm PC speaker.

I think i've lowered the command rate to 1T. - It says that in CPU-Z anyway.

It did boot on 250FSB with 166 memory, and it seemed slow at booting and responding in XP.

[Zone^55 Live!]

You can't expect to go very further with that mobo, the fact of the system be more slower, means that the system is unstable, it can be the memory, less vcore... did you put the LDT x3=600mhz ?


Stay Well! ;)

[Pirate_Freder]

hey man, if i were you i would drop the pci-e back down to stock. that really isn't meant to be oc'd and everything in thta area is set up perfectly. in fact you really don't want to oc any bus except for the fsb. it can/most probabaly will make performance WORSE.

[Panzer]

Hey guys,

I have been playing about with it and did set the memory down to 166. It's running fine right now at 2.53ghz / 168mhz mem.

Can you let me know if this is better than what was there previously or am I going down the wrong path?

http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/9669/opty253nn9.jpg

Cheers for comments.

[Panzer]

I've done that and it goes to 2.56.

I know it has been 2.5 in the old PC it was in, but then again, he had Muskin Redline PC4000! I only have GeIL PC3200. As good as they are ;)

I have been working on OCing my 7300 mainly. Just got under 9600 in 3D Mark 03. Not bad for a puter worth under £300. But I'm disappointed by the chip.

[eXa]

ok have you turned on that memory compability thingy? if so turn it off cus it locks the divider to 133.

what bios do u use? 2.10 should be good, no 274htt issue.
above 250htt use 3x ht multi. remember both nb and sb

i ran this mb for 300htt daily for long time

edit: oh and 1t is fishy on this board. if u get to 300htt u probably can use 133 divider and 1t but stick with 2t for now and rather try tweaking that later when u got everything else set!