Cable Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 Anybody on here had much experience overclocking? I had a go on my CPU speed yesterday and everything seems to be running fine but I still need to try a game. My CPU is a AMD athlon 2200+. The intial clock speed was 133mhz with a 13.5 multiple. I upped the clock speed to 150mhz and left the multiple as it was. Any idea if this could be done a better way, like upping the multiple so not having to run too high a clock speed. I'm a real begginer at this so it would be great to get a little help. Cheers Neil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamer Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 IMO, you are wasting your time overclocking that processor. Especially if you are still using the stock cooling. The gains will be negligible and if anything you will just create errors with your system. Those chips were never really good overclocking chips so my advice to you is to leave well enough alone as you will be hard pressed to even notice any gain from overclocking that one unless you are using an extreme cooling solution such as Phase change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cable Posted March 24, 2007 Author Share Posted March 24, 2007 I did some changes to the cooling a while back, 2 large case fans one pushing, one pulling. Also got a huge coolermaster cpu fan, so big in fact that the PSU now lives outside the case CPU temp seems to be ok at 35 degrees C with a 17 degree case temp. With the slight bit of overclocking I upped the speed from 1.8 to 2.0 which isn't bad, just gotta see how if it improves the games a little. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daston Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 down load CPU-Z as this will give you some info on core speed, FSB speed and RAM speed. What I normaly do is drop the ram speed down one bar (ie if running 400mhz ram drop it to 333mhz) as the faster the FSB is the faster the RAM is and if you go over the factory settings on RAM it can cause system instability. What you are doing at the mo is ok upping the multiplyer will increase the FSB speed anyway so it makes no difference in what one you increase. Also a good thing to do is drop the HTT multiplyer down to x3 as this will also increase stability. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamer Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 If you are lucky you might see an extra 1-2fps in games, you would do better to overclock the graphics card as well. Combined with the slight system overclock that you are attempting you might see 5-10 fps increase depending on what GFX card you have. heat will be your nemesis. Also you could be hindered by cheap ram. Quality components matched with some really good cooling is what you want when overclocking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cable Posted March 24, 2007 Author Share Posted March 24, 2007 I've got a Ati radeon 9600XT and Geil DDR Ram. Any good? How do I go about overclock the graphics card, in the bios? The ATI control software has an 'Overdrive' button which increases the performance somehow. thanks again all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamer Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 I've got a Ati radeon 9600XT and Geil DDR Ram. Any good? How do I go about overclock the graphics card, in the bios? The ATI control software has an 'Overdrive' button which increases the performance somehow. thanks again all Geil is decent ram and you should be able to overclock it a bit. You would really need to access the system bios to play with the ram timings to get the most from it though. You can extract a bit more performance from the graphics card. Use this utility but be careful and take it slow. http://www.techpowerup.com/atitool/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cable Posted March 24, 2007 Author Share Posted March 24, 2007 Geil is decent ram and you should be able to overclock it a bit. You would really need to access the system bios to play with the ram timings to get the most from it though. You can extract a bit more performance from the graphics card. Use this utility but be careful and take it slow. http://www.techpowerup.com/atitool/ Cool, thanks. I've downloaded it now but how does it work, slowly increase the core and memory? How do I know if I go too far? I don't suppose you have some software to monitor CPU data aswell. cheers Neil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daston Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 The way I do it is down load a benchmark something like 3Dmark as that gives you a CPU score. Whilst that is running I run a temp monitor to check my gfx card temps and then I run a CPU stress test if your PC hangs or reboots then its either overheating or you need to turn the clocking down. My Crosshair board will not post if I OC too high Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamer Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 Best bet is to read up on some O/C enthusiast forums really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daston Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 yeah that would be a good thing to do http://www.aoaforums.com is a good one some rather clever dudes on their (even if they are 12 lol) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 Talking about overclocking, spotted this on slashdot.. The ultimate gizmo for the overclocker... It is a network card (NIC), which pretty much runs linux to do all the network packet work so the CPU doesn't have to work as hard. Damn pricey though for what is effectively a TOE NIC, hell some of the TOE NICs I used in iSCSI designs are cheaper than this. How cool is it though to be able to access the OS of your network card to tweak it... uber 3l337 http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTE1MywsLGhlbnRodXNpYXN0 Technical Specifications * Data Rates: 10/100/1000 Ethernet Fast Ethernet Controller * 400Mhz Network Processing Unit * Integrated Memory: 64MB DDR PC2100 * IEEE Compliance: 802.3, 802.3u, 802.3x, 802.3z * Data Path Width: 32-bit PCI * Data Transfer Mode: Bus-master DMA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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