I got my new system up:

amd 64 3200+ venice
asus a8n sli
asus 6600gt
512 kingston ddr400 value
80gb sata
enermax 535w

I have a few Q's about ocing though.

stock speeds are 200mhz and 5x HTT right?
i took it up to 220mhz (2200mhz, 2.2ghz effective) but left HTT on auto (which is defualt 5x right?)

system is running great right now, 32*C idle (32 idle when ambient room temp is 27*C), havnt tested under load, no firewall so i dont wanna dl apps yet (im on a diff pc currently).

anything to worry about?
can i tighten up the ram timings? currently: 3.3.3.8 (2t probably) any chance i could get 2.5 .3.3.7 or something?
anything to worry about htt setting?

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AMD X2 4200+ *** DFI NF4 Ultra-D (modded to SLi-D) *** eVGA 7950GT (with Zalman FC-ZV9)
January 16th was the day life changed... the day I bought WoW

I'd say set the HTT multiplier to 4x. The system doesnt like to be over 1000mhz very much. 4 times 220 is 880, you wont notice a difference. The HTT is really fast and doesnt get bottlenecked even at that.

hubs8907

will i be seeing anything going bad at 220x5 (1100)? system is running quite fine as of this post.

i'd like to go 250x4 for a 2.5 ghz cpu, but my kingston value wont handle that. some ocz ddr500 gold rev2 is cathing my eye a lot. need some $ first.

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AMD X2 4200+ *** DFI NF4 Ultra-D (modded to SLi-D) *** eVGA 7950GT (with Zalman FC-ZV9)
January 16th was the day life changed... the day I bought WoW

You should set the multiplier to 4x. It is safer that way.

I think that by having it over 1000mhz it causes the entire system to o/c. This means all the transfers would happen faster, and that may cause data loss/corruption, etc. You wouldn't even notice a differnce at 880mhz.

hubs8907

yea....i could take my FSB to 222 before i had to lower the HTT multi...and that was on a lanparty. your cutting it close, i would just down the multi to 4x.

also, i wouldnt try to tighten the timings....it IS valueRAM....not meant for performance. im surprised u even got the FSB that far.

well nice job...and good luck

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all right, i will do that.

anyone else have thoughts?

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AMD X2 4200+ *** DFI NF4 Ultra-D (modded to SLi-D) *** eVGA 7950GT (with Zalman FC-ZV9)
January 16th was the day life changed... the day I bought WoW

looks very nice !
have fun with it !

Dont count on your ram doing too much more. It's value ram, and it isn't designed for higher speeds/timings.

I still have the gig of 2-3-2-6-1 Kingston HyperX if you are interested....PM me for the low price.

hubs8907

thanks thug /biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' />.

i have another querry!!!
in the system tray there is a 'remove hardware safely' and it has the option to remove my 80gb sata!!! whats with this, i dont want to remove it!

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AMD X2 4200+ *** DFI NF4 Ultra-D (modded to SLi-D) *** eVGA 7950GT (with Zalman FC-ZV9)
January 16th was the day life changed... the day I bought WoW

hummm maybe win xp dont properly reconize it. is it fat32 or NTFS ?

* 1K !!! *

ntfs
my partisions are working normally.

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AMD X2 4200+ *** DFI NF4 Ultra-D (modded to SLi-D) *** eVGA 7950GT (with Zalman FC-ZV9)
January 16th was the day life changed... the day I bought WoW

"SMART" is enabled, system monitoring blah, for my HDD, could this be it?

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AMD X2 4200+ *** DFI NF4 Ultra-D (modded to SLi-D) *** eVGA 7950GT (with Zalman FC-ZV9)
January 16th was the day life changed... the day I bought WoW

Yep, leave smart on, it will tell you if your drive is failing.

hubs8907

QUOTE(hubs8907 @ Jun 27 2005, 09:21 PM)Yep, leave smart on, it will tell you if your drive is failing.

hubs8907
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Would SMART do this to me?
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AMD X2 4200+ *** DFI NF4 Ultra-D (modded to SLi-D) *** eVGA 7950GT (with Zalman FC-ZV9)
January 16th was the day life changed... the day I bought WoW

i think the remove hardware is because sata is hot swappable

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humm yup maybe the windows thingies detected it that way /blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' />

umm rico change avaril off ur avator and i will help, no iam kiddn lol, but you should lower the sync to 333 and do what i did go to ddr 410 from ddr 333 setting that means you can get about a 2.5ghz o/c i think

here are some setting that might help you out

Set CPU to 9x
Set HTT to 3x
FSB to 322
DDR divider to 266/133 how ever its listed in you bios

this should give you
CPU = 2.9ghz
HTT = 966mhz
Mem = 207

Another option if the CPU doesn’t go much past 2.7ghz
CPU set to 8x
HTT set to 3x
FSB to 337
Mem to 266/133

CPU = 2.7ghz
HTT = 1ghz
Mem = 224mhz


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QUOTE(Cyberpunk_era @ Jun 28 2005, 02:36 AM)here are some setting that might help you out

Set CPU to 9x
Set HTT to 3x
FSB to 322
DDR divider to 266/133 how ever its listed in you bios

this should give you
CPU = 2.9ghz
HTT = 966mhz
Mem = 207

Another option if the CPU doesn’t go much past 2.7ghz
CPU set to 8x
HTT set to 3x
FSB to 337
Mem to 266/133

CPU = 2.7ghz
HTT = 1ghz
Mem = 224mhz
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Maybe i'll go 250x4 HTT and get some OCZ PC4000 ram, giving me 2.5ghz cpu. thats what i would like to do.

I've found out why my sata drives is shown this way.
i found it here' ">http://www.planetamd64.com/lof...n/index.php/t6882.html

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AMD X2 4200+ *** DFI NF4 Ultra-D (modded to SLi-D) *** eVGA 7950GT (with Zalman FC-ZV9)
January 16th was the day life changed... the day I bought WoW