| Review of postings for Overclocking AMD Athlon XP 2600+ Barton (the latest posts first) |
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Mr Weedy |
Erstellt: 13:53 am 15. Juli 2007 |
Took some time to test my system but seems like I have found almost the highest possible speed for FSB.
So, I have my cpu running on 7,5% over voltage and that's 1,776 volts instead of standard 1,65v. Also I have increased my memories voltage by 0,1 volts (I don't know the original values even I searched for them some time.) Also I have changed my memories timings to match 3.0-3-3-8 and I have my AGP running at 67MHz, manually set. CPU is running now 11,5x, multiplier is superlocked, and FSB is 195MHz instead of normal 166MHz. That gives my cpu some nice boost which I wanted. It was 1913MHz and that's 2600+. Now it is running at 2242,5MHz, CPU-Z says it's running around 2243,5MHz. Anyway, that's same speed as 3000+ and I got 330,5MHz more speed. That's slightly less than 1/3GHz. Ok boost for me.
My temperatures were on idle around 49-52°C. Now they are on first boot 49-53°C and after some time they slowly but surely go up to 53-55°C. Now they are stable on 54°C. Under extreme pressure the temperature was around 63°C and now with overclocked settings around 66-67 but while I play I can't get them that up in any way. My temperatures when I played were around 57-59. Now they are around 58-60. In my opinion not big raise in temperatures even they are all the time high but I use bigger core 130µm core instead of 90µm core which produces more heat than that 90µm. I'm not so sure about those values but they were at least 130 and 90 and I have the bigger.
And here's the file about my computer's specs: http://www.savefile.com/files/889562
And here's picture of Cpu-Z's values: http://img474.imageshack.us/img474/1871/untitledpo3.png
Thank you both of you who helped me with my computer.    
(Geändert von Mr Weedy um 13:59 am Juli 15, 2007) |
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Mr Weedy |
Erstellt: 16:59 am 7. Juli 2007 |
Couldn't find anything which could have been related to spread spectrum in my BIOS settings so I think I don't even have it and it is disabled and I remembered to hit ctrl+F1.
So I think this is here now.
Currently OC:ing is going from 1913MHz -> 2013MHz and temperature raised from 49-51 to 50-52 and sometimes 53.
I'll try to run this system faster than 2800+ because I made it once but because my system wasn't enough stable I downgraded the FSB's speed.
I have it currently at 180MHz again. I'll make one more post after this where I state my final speed which I will use.
Thank you for your help.
It really helped. |
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Beomaster |
Erstellt: 0:04 am 7. Juli 2007 |
AGP Speed must be 66,666MHz, so 67MHz is OK
I dont know what else could be modified?
Spread Spectrum is disabled? |
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Mr Weedy |
Erstellt: 23:11 am 6. Juli 2007 |
Alright, I ran the blend test on 175 FSB MHZ, 67MHz AGP speed and memories timings on 2.5-3-3-8 settings for 10 hours and 35 minutes and the program didn't freeze after stopping it so I think the error was caused by the program.
Anyway I think there isn't anything else left to do expect to raise the FSB's speed until the system comes unstable again and then I will change my memories timings back to 3.0-3-3-8 and keep increasing the FSB's speed until my cpu's temperature is getting too high and my memories can't take it anymore.
Or do I need to increase my AGP's speed anymore? Thanks for your help. |
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Mr Weedy |
Erstellt: 18:56 am 5. Juli 2007 |
Okay. The blend test ran just fine now for 6 hours and 18 minutes. I don't know did cleaning up the temp folders help or was it because I used bit older version of that same program. The newest is V. 0.41....... and I used V. 0.40.
Also I tried to run my system at normal volts for memory and having timings for the as 3.0-3-3-8 but my system freezed everytime to a moment where windows XP's loading bar disappears and the desktop should show up.
Also my room is cool so my cpu is running on idle stage around 50-52C.
Now I'll try those things which you have listen earlier and I'll report you back how I did. Let's think more after that.
Edit: I have my AGP speed on 67MHz and Memory is running on 2.5-3-3-8 now. I'll do some testing now. Also spybot didn't find anything else than just tracking cookies and two settings which are made in windows and which were made by me. So no bad bugs here.
(Geändert von Mr Weedy um 19:03 am Juli 5, 2007) |
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Mr Weedy |
Erstellt: 21:27 am 4. Juli 2007 |
Yes it seems that problem is or was somewhere else. I ran the Stress Prime 2004 program's ONLY cpu stress for 11 hours and I got 0 errors and 0 warnings.
That's okay. I thought the RAM caused the freezing of the program after I stopped the blend mode.
Well I ran the ONLY RAM stress and I ran it 5 hours and 51 minutes and got 0 errors and 0 warnings. So I think the problem may be gone now. I'll leave my computer to run the blend mode again hoping it doesn't freeze the program after I stop it.
And I have been bit busy now so I may reply to you tomorrow or even day after tomorrow but I'll try to report you how it went so we can get back to the normal overclocking.
I'll do those things which are meantioned by you Beomaster few posts ago if the program stops and quits without freezing. I also downloaded the spybot and I'm going to run it now.
Oh yeah, and I haven't changed my settings since last system specs report. CPU is at 175MHz FSB and not at 180MHz FSB at the moment.
(Geändert von Mr Weedy um 21:32 am Juli 4, 2007) |
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Beomaster |
Erstellt: 23:05 am 3. Juli 2007 |
if 3-3-3-8 is SPD for 200MHz, he won't need worse timings or more voltage for running 180MHz
the problem must be somewhere else |
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PUNK2018 |
Erstellt: 21:32 am 3. Juli 2007 |
Hi i´ve read this topic some day´s ago and no i put my brain into it
first of all excuse my not so good english i´ve left only 8 years of english behind me  
you should try to change only 1 value of your timings a time "slower"
e.g. with your current timings you change 3.0-3-3-8 into 3.0-3-3-9
if it doesn´t work you replace the 9 with a 8 and change into 3.0-3-4-8 you know?!
when you´ve find a well working setting you try to lower it again...
e.g.
3.0.3.3.9 works change it to 2.5-3-3-9 (the nine is the value you don´t change anymore)
by the way..... to increase (ohh shit i don´t know the right pronouciation...) your systems speed you should also clean up your system with a tool called "spybot search and destroy" you can find it with google its shareware and used to find and delete trojans and other bad software on your system...
(Geändert von PUNK2018 um 21:33 am Juli 3, 2007) |
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Mr Weedy |
Erstellt: 21:15 am 3. Juli 2007 |
I have problems wit blend mode and I haven't tested others so far but it does run nicely along but after I decide to stop it, the program freezes. So I guess my memories aren't stable enough. Should I try to slow down my timings on memories still? They are currently 3.0-3-3-8.
Let's take a look to those other things later when I get my memory enough stable.
Edit: Oh yeah and I cleaned my temp folders, had forgot those totally, and deleted around 820 files which were there for nothing. Also I checked my start up from that msconfig file and I couldn't take almost anything off. Only Nero's auto update. All the other things are in a way or another needed.
(Geändert von Mr Weedy um 21:18 am Juli 3, 2007) |
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Beomaster |
Erstellt: 17:47 am 3. Juli 2007 |
I guess you dont need more voltage on memory.
If Blend test is running without error, your memory is stable.
Now you can try CL2,5 and standard voltage for memory.
To check out the processor (watch the temperatures!) set prime tu custom and check box = true "run FFT in place".
Set your AGP Frequency to 67MHz, this sould be the most stable option.
It's only importent that's fixed, because I'm not sure if it will raise with your FSB.
By the way, it is right that FSB and memory speed are the same, it they are different, it will cost a lot of speed, especially on NF2 chipset, and it could be unstable.
Another point, be sure every option "spread spectrum" is disabled (mostly, there is one "spread spectrum" option, sometimes, there are two, it's different from board to board)
That your explorer crash mustn't be the fault of meory or processor, it could be even the reason of a dirty windows.
What could be one little step?
I prefer to clean my temp folder, you may find it here:
c:\documents and attitudes\yourname\local attitudes\temp
dont delete the folder, but everything whats in it, windows may use it when it's running, but it don't delete it when it don't need it anymore
another possibility is to look if there are any programs that start you don't need, look it up with:
Start
implement or execute must me the next option, I'm not sure about the english name
and then type "msconfig"
the last rider "system start" will be interesting for you
this will be two little steps for a thinner windows |
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