Brand new folk

[QettoE]

Hey everyone,

This is my 1st post. I searhed to see if there is a beginner thread or sticky on this forum with definitions and methods of OC'ing you guru's are using. Found nothing so far. I appreciate if someone can post a link if in fact there is such thread or guideline available on this website.

Thanks a bunch,

[thomas66]

Welcome to the xtreme

if you want help from the forum you should at least mention what hardware you are running :confused:

[[ r2 ]]

Welcome to XS QettoE, i fairly new my self to XS forums.

Could you post your specs as there are lots of overclocking guides for speciic cpus/boards and etc...

[QettoE]

Wow... I love this already. Less than a minute and 2 replies. Here is what I'm using:

AMD Winchester 3000+
MSI K8N Neo2
2GB Corsair PC3500 CL2 (BH-5)
2x74GB WD Raptor
Zalman CNP7000B-CU
TT Purepower 480W

I could push it successfully to 2.2GHz stable running Prime95 for a few hours, but I had crashes when system was idle. I suspect that my Thermaltake Purepower (18W on 12V rail) does not supply adequate current or as I noticed in these forums my board does not like BH-5. So I decided to put what I know aside and pace with your guys here.

I'm waiting for DFI or Asus NF4 to come out, and I'll then get rid of my MSI. I use a DFI Lanparty NFII Ultra on my AMD 2700+ game server and I absolutely love it. Runs at 2.4 like a clock... SATA ports 1 and 2 on that MSI specially bother me a lot even though I'm not using them.

Thanks again,
Q.

[lalPOOO]

At the moment, it seems there is a problem with prime and winchesters, so testing with prime won't really help you. Check the stickies in the amd section about the K8n Neo2, they're quite good.

[[ r2 ]]

Yeah the psu might be causing some trouble for you as i used a Tt560W and it was horrible trying to o/c 1:1.

Try finding the max of your cpu, so drop the ram to 166 in the bios so you would using devider 5:6.

Im guessing that you are using multplier of 9x so you are running 244/245HTT, maybe your memory is causing the problems. Also set your HT to 3. Usually the 3000+ winchester, well in most cases can do 2200Mhz on 1.4vcore but you might want to select +3.3%.

[QettoE]

I had it on 259x8.5 and 245x9 (2-3-2-10 and 2-2-2-11) with the same exact results. I could play UT2k4 for an hour, but as soon as I run Firefox or leave the system idle for 5 mins it reboots. I'll try what you said R2 when I get home.

I've been waiting for newegg to bring new OCZ Powerstream that they're out of for the last 2 weeks to see if it'll help. For now I think I'm in need of more in-depth memory timing tutorial if there is a thread about it in here. If there is I appreciate if anyone can post a link to it, or perhaps wherever you guys trust :stick:.

Again, I thank you all very much.
QettoE

[QettoE]

That is really weird with the crashing - have you tried reinstalling windows?

Thanks for the info. Actually yes. All these problems occured with fresh Windows install. I actually installed it twice from two different CDs. I agree with you that this is real weird... putting load on this thing didn't crash it, but leaving it idle did. I'll have to RMA it if I can't get a Powerstream PSU before RMA time limit... I feel frustrated with this. Unfortunately I don't have spare memory to check it out and I don't wanna buy since I love my BH-5's. I hope the new DFI NF4 solves it for me.

QettoE