Quote Originally Posted by justapost View Post
Lol, that's what i did in my spare time the last week. The odd thing is sometimes you can use a much lower nb voltage if you increase cpuv a little.
With cpuv 1,2V I can go down to 1,025V on the nb here. Looking for the min nb with 1,185V for the cpu atm. I want to annotate that I use relaxed memory settings 800-5-5-5-15. Can be that a higher nb voltage is required for opzimized settings.
NB voltage? We can't see NB volts, we can only see the VID value. Though I know NB volts rise and fall with VID selection, but they don't rise and fall much by just VID changing unless you push to extremes. I actually want lowest CPU voltage first because it's the biggest temp/power hog, NB voltage can be taken near 1.2VID at least (1.192V) at stock stable, which is OK for me.

Right now, I've just gamed 30 minutes and then primed stable >5.5 hours (still going) at:
202 x 12 = 2423MHz CPU @ 1.225VID 1.216V idle/1.208V load
202 x 10 = 2020MHz NB @ 1.275VID



Consider, stock was 200 x 11.5 = 2.3G @ 1.25VID 1.240V
That was just to test headroom at those volts. An easy and quicker way to tell if any lower VID/V is unstable.

EDIT: You might also try 1,185V/1,075V for CPU/NB at stock, lowest possible on the M3A with a 9500.
1.2VID gives me 1.192V idle/1.184V load but 1.075VID will probably give near 1.0V for the IMC. That might b a little too unstable I'll try it though.

Quote Originally Posted by ragnarok95 View Post
Im now running the 5000X2 on my K9A2 plat while waiting for my 9500 to come.

I change the multi to 15x, stock voltage, ram is 1:2, DDR2 800.

Its running at 3Ghz, but my ram is running at 375 instead of 400. Why is it this way?

Is it due to the 15X multi?
Read up on some guides for X2 oc'ing and you'll do much better overall (google).

With X2: (HTT speed) x (CPU multiplier) / (memory divisor) = RAM clock

200 x 15 (2000) / 8 = DDR2-750

Use this tool for oc and it'll give you the different frequencies at different settings: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=120432

Although you don't need it if you understand it.