Question on overclocking with MSI PT880

[[AK]Abaddon]

Hi folks,

I just purchased an MSI PT880 board, and installed a 3.2 gHz P4C, with 800 mHz FSB.

My system specs are as follows:

MSI NEO-LSR PT880 motherboard
Intel 3.2C P4 800MB FSB
AeroCool 2 heatsink
(2) 512mb Kingston DDR466 HyperX RAM
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro video card
WD1200JD Western Digital SATA 120mb drive (7200 RPM)
Creative Audigy 2

I have the memory running at 1:1 (400 mhz) in dual channel mode, and have overclocked the FSB to 216, yielding a clock speed of 3.47 ghz/bus 860+ mhz. I realize that I will not be able to overclock a 200 mhz bus speed too much on this board. I have a vcore of 1.585 V on the CPU.

However, I am concerned that the AGP/PCI lock in my BIOS is not working. I have the AGP frequency set to 66.6 in BIOS ... but Sisoft Sandra's mainboard information is reporting my AGP speed as 72.7. Should I trust my BIOS or Sandra on this one?

I have been having a few hard lockups in games, so I suspect the Sandra report is accurate.

Does anyone know whether Sandra reads that AGP bus information from the computer, or simply calculates it based on the FSB? I hate to think that my AGP/PCI lock is not working ... but it was a $65 board.

[mopar_man]

IF U are still using this board I have the same setup 3.2 PRESCOtt hade problems overclocking past 3.47 but if i set Vcore 1.4250ish or a little higher and set to ddr 450 or 466 in the bios leave the agp at 66.6 has no positive effect and can hurt the vcard southbr 2.80v north set to 1.74 ddr 2.8 or higher im using centon ddr 400 cheap so far ive been able to run at 3.73 on air 100% load 45c stable turn off spread specturm and keep trying if any ? ask ill try to help