What's my next move?

[BennyV04988]

I'm looking to upgrade probably between now and March. What do you think I should do? Will my current CPU speed hold over for now? What about these crazy DX10.1 ATI cards? Any advice?

 

[b1gapl]

Your system is fine for another year. But you should really overclock more. At least 3.2GHz, which can be easily achieved with your setup.

Next move? Not sure. If I was in this situation, I would keep it. It's not like it won't be able to play future games.

 

[BennyV04988]

Your system is fine for another year. But you should really overclock more. At least 3.2GHz, which can be easily achieved with your setup.

Next move? Not sure. If I was in this situation, I would keep it. It's not like it won't be able to play future games.

For some reason my board won't go any higher. No matter the voltage I set it to. My ram is unlinked as well, but it simply won't boot at over 2.65GHz.

 

[veedubfreak]

Do you have the latest bios revision for the board? If i recall correctly the 650i and 680i both had FSB holes with the older bios.

 

[b1gapl]

Agreed with the FSB holes. On my P5N-E 650i, I was stuck wherever I had a 00 at the end of the FSB. So 1400 was a no go, but 1450 was.

 

[kobe24]

yeah try puttin it straight to 3.0 or 3.2 coz my q6600 go doesnt work at 3.3,3.4,3.5 but works at 3.2 then 3.6 so yeah just try goin higher

 

[BennyV04988]

i updated the bios, and now it thinks my pc is a 2.45GHz default, or 1400fsb. 0_o... Iono... I will trying for 3.2 and see if it boots.

Also, out of:

CPU
NB
SB
FSB

What should I bump up and how far?

 

[lancec2c30]

if anything the cpu. But there really is no need for you.

 

[veedubfreak]

On my p35 board i bumped NB and SB +.1 and memory +.2, cpu is 1.35v @3.6ghz. 650i is going to be a little different though i would guess.