thejeremy
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Hello forum,
Last night I figured I'd try out this overclocking thing (first time ever). Here's what I did:
I have a Biostar motherboard (check sig), its FSB was running at 200MHz before I tweaked it. In the BIOS I changed the FSB to be running at 205MHz, and I believe the CPU multiplier is set to 11 (the default value). This makes sense to me because, from what I've been raeding, CPU speed = multiplier x FSB speed. Before, the CPU was running at 2.2GHz, the default speed (200 x 11 = 2.2GHz). AFter overclocking, the computer reports 2.6GHz! Is this correct? I figured it would be 205 x 11 = 2.255GHz. I'm a n00b when it comes to all this right now but I want to learn this stuff.
Also, from the mobo's website , it appears that DDR400 RAM isn't supported. My RAM was always previously detected as DDR333. However, after OC'ing the mobo, since I have DDR400 RAM in there, it ran it as DDR400 according to the output on the screen during bootup. I'm pretty sure this is normal, since OC'ing the mobo will basically OC everything in the system to an extent.
One more thing...I was reading some posts about dual channel RAM. I have a pair of 512MB Kingstons made for dual channel in the dual channel slots, and a third 512MB stick in the third slot of some other brand, can't remember brand or clock speed of that stick. During bootup, the computer indicates that dual channel is enabled because it prints out a line like "Dual Channel Enabled, running at DDR400". But from what I was reading, dual chanel won't work with memory in a third slot? I know the 3rd stick isn't Kingston for sure. I guess a little more general info here would be helpful in any case.
I ran Prime95 on this last night, and it ran for around 5.5 hours, then I got an error. Is this too unstable to use? Should I increase the voltage to the CPU so it can keep up?
Thanks in advance.
Last night I figured I'd try out this overclocking thing (first time ever). Here's what I did:
I have a Biostar motherboard (check sig), its FSB was running at 200MHz before I tweaked it. In the BIOS I changed the FSB to be running at 205MHz, and I believe the CPU multiplier is set to 11 (the default value). This makes sense to me because, from what I've been raeding, CPU speed = multiplier x FSB speed. Before, the CPU was running at 2.2GHz, the default speed (200 x 11 = 2.2GHz). AFter overclocking, the computer reports 2.6GHz! Is this correct? I figured it would be 205 x 11 = 2.255GHz. I'm a n00b when it comes to all this right now but I want to learn this stuff.
Also, from the mobo's website , it appears that DDR400 RAM isn't supported. My RAM was always previously detected as DDR333. However, after OC'ing the mobo, since I have DDR400 RAM in there, it ran it as DDR400 according to the output on the screen during bootup. I'm pretty sure this is normal, since OC'ing the mobo will basically OC everything in the system to an extent.
One more thing...I was reading some posts about dual channel RAM. I have a pair of 512MB Kingstons made for dual channel in the dual channel slots, and a third 512MB stick in the third slot of some other brand, can't remember brand or clock speed of that stick. During bootup, the computer indicates that dual channel is enabled because it prints out a line like "Dual Channel Enabled, running at DDR400". But from what I was reading, dual chanel won't work with memory in a third slot? I know the 3rd stick isn't Kingston for sure. I guess a little more general info here would be helpful in any case.
I ran Prime95 on this last night, and it ran for around 5.5 hours, then I got an error. Is this too unstable to use? Should I increase the voltage to the CPU so it can keep up?
Thanks in advance.