Dual Opteron 250's Overclocking help?

:confused: Basicly I want to get as much out of my babys untill 64 windows comes out properley and more apps work on it, So does anyone no how or can give advise on how to make the dual opterons run faster? 2.4ghz standard, BUT i WANT MORE MORE MORE!! hOPE I'VE POSTED IN CORRECT SECITON :)

Heres the Sandra Specs:

Processor
Model : 2x AMD Opteron™ Processor 250
Speed : 2.39GHz
Model Number : 3784 (estimated)
Performance Rating : PR7168 (estimated)
Type : Standard
L2 On-board Cache : 1MB ECC Synchronous, Write-Back, 16-way set, 64 byte line size

Mainboard
Bus(es) : ISA AGP PCI IMB USB FireWire/1394 i2c/SMBus
MP Support : 2 CPU(s)
MP APIC : Yes
NUMA Support : 2 Node(s)
System BIOS : American Megatrends Inc. 080008
System : To be filled by O.E.M. To be filles by O.E.M.
Mainboard : TYAN S2885 Thunder K8W
Total Memory : 2.9GB ECC DDR-SDRAM Registered

Chipset 1
Model : Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Athlon 64 / Opteron HyperTransport Technology Configuration
Front Side Bus Speed : 2x 796MHz (1592MHz data rate)
Total Memory : 4GB ECC DDR-SDRAM Registered
Memory Bus Speed : 2x 199MHz (398MHz data rate)

Chipset 2
Model : Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Athlon 64 / Opteron HyperTransport Technology Configuration
Front Side Bus Speed : 2x 796MHz (1592MHz data rate)
Total Memory : 2GB ECC DDR-SDRAM Registered
Memory Bus Speed : 2x 199MHz (398MHz data rate)

Chipset 3
Model : Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) AMD-8151 AGP Device (System Controller)
Front Side Bus Speed : 2x 597MHz (1194MHz data rate)

Video System
Monitor/Panel : Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 2070SB
Adapter : RADEON X800 Series

Physical Storage Devices
Removable Drive : Floppy disk drive
Hard Disk : 3ware 9500S-:0 Drv 0 SCSI Disk Device (698GB)
Hard Disk : 3ware 9500S-:0 Drv 1 SCSI Disk Device (65GB)
CD-ROM/DVD : LITE-ON CD-RW SOHR-5238S (CD 201X Rd, 52X Wr)
CD-ROM/DVD : LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1213S (CD 48X Rd, 48X Wr) (DVD 6X Rd, 6X Wr)
CD-ROM/DVD : LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-832S (CD 40X Rd, 40X Wr) (DVD 5X Rd, 5X Wr)

Operating System(s)
Windows System : Microsoft Windows XP/2002 Professional (Win32 x86) 5.01.2600 (Service Pack 2)




Chipset 1 Hub Interface
Type : HyperTransport
Version : 1.02
In/Out Width : 16-bit / 16-bit
Speed : 2x 597MHz (1194MHz data rate)

Logical/Chipset 1 Memory Banks
Bank 0 : 1GB ECC DDR-SDRAM Registered 3.0-3-3-3CL 2CMD
Bank 1 : 1GB ECC DDR-SDRAM Registered 3.0-3-3-3CL 2CMD
Bank 2 : 1GB ECC DDR-SDRAM Registered 3.0-3-3-3CL 2CMD
Bank 3 : 1GB ECC DDR-SDRAM Registered 3.0-3-3-3CL 2CMD


Logical/Chipset 2 Memory Banks
Bank 0 : 1GB ECC DDR-SDRAM Registered 3.0-3-3-3CL 2CMD
Bank 1 : 1GB ECC DDR-SDRAM Registered 3.0-3-3-3CL 2CMD
Channels : 1
Bank Interleave : 2-way
Speed : 2x 199MHz (398MHz data rate)
Multiplier : 1/12x
Width : 128-bit
Refresh Rate : 5.00µs
Power Save Mode : No
Fixed Hole Present : No

dang, now thats the kinda info thats nice to know right from the start :up:

Alright, should be overclockable...ECC RAM doesn't like to be overclocked tho...so...you'd have to run it on a divider. Server boards aren't known for their overclocking powers...so...yeah, the RAM on the DDR333 divider, I'm going to guess theres a Hypertransport multi in the BIOS...drop that to 4x or 3x if its already set as 4x. Then find your FSB and start increasing it alittle bit. Then run dual Prime95 for awhile to see if its stable.

jjcom

pci/agp locks?

Ok I know I'm on the expert forums and I'm just going to say it half the stuff you guys just said dont mean :banana::banana::banana::banana:e to me, I know that on me old computer i could change the frequesny in the bios but in this one I can't find it, Whats a divider? :D, What sort of speed can i get from them? I've also tryed using that 3 gig switch but wasnt successful :(

Are there opteron clocking boards? Which one?

I want to get two 242's and bring them up.

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ECC RAM doesn't like to be overclocked tho

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lay off the drugs Ive see ecc+reg 940pin ddr hit 260mhz 1:1 at 2-2-2-5-1t :0 corsair pc3200ll plat. is the ":banana::banana::banana::banana:" it even bests 75% of non ecc+reg ram ;)

depends on the RAM...its doing 3-3-3...so I wasn't expecting anything great from it.

:banana4: :banana4:

what drugs...I don't see any...lol

jjcom

i THOUGHT ecc ram is good? and i wanna overclock me processors, and also were can i get this "dual Prime95" from? is there somthing I can download manually which lets me adjust the clock speed?

tyan=no overclock ;) msi kt8 would ahve been oyur best bet, but those boards don't support numa or whatever you call it i dont think.

wait for dual core cpus and install 2 of thsoe or sel those and pickup 2 252 2.6ghz chips in a month or so.

I thought Tyan boards were good at overclocking...o'well..:(

The program is called "Prime95" do a google and you'll find it. I was saying dual Prime since you would need to have it run on both processors. hope that helps

jjcom