Im running at 166mhz fsb or whatever. I can go up to 200. If i do, what should I set my vcore to. My vcore is at default right now. Im using a asus a7n8x deluxe.

Hi,

No specific value... just the lowest you can and still have the machine run stable.

You might not need any voltage increase; and I'd stay below 1.75 anyway.

Go for Prime95 Torture Test as a general stability test.

If you are o'clocking and upping the volts you must keep an eye on CPU temps.


Peter

cause i tryed to .. and i set it to 200mhz or whatever and i didnt change the vcore, left it at default.. and the computer wouldnt boot.. so i had to reset cmos..

You shouldn't have to do the reset/pin jump thing, just turn it off and back on and hit the delete key at the beep.

BTW I got my new 2800+ to run fairly stable at the 180 setting and 1.7 volts. but I would occasionaly have the boot prob. So I set it back to 166. Have you tried the two memory stick DDR mode yet? Mine seemed to run noticably better with that mode. Right below the cpu post it will read

PERFORMANCE MEMORY TIMING DDR Mode-- or something like that.

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Since you guys are Oclocking over here I have a question why does a person buy the top of the line Cpu in this case a 3000+ 333 fsb this is the top of the line in its class which AMD picked from the very best slices from the wafer just to get it to the 3000+. All those other slices became 2800+ and on down the line to the bottom of the chain. It stands to reason if AMD has picked it as the best there is probably not much room for Oclocking. My point is the most successful Oclock chips are the lowest in there class and also have the lowest multiplier.

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Not necessarily, there are lots of people out there with 3200+'s that get high FSBs and keep the multiplier at 15. Its just easier to OC with a lower multiplier I guess, and you may need more experience in overclocking really high.

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I'm having exactly the same mobo and processor as rob. now my question is about the processor's maximum core clock. is there any and what is it? I know the multiplier is locked to 13 but my previous 2000+ palomino wouldn't work over 1750 mhz at all. my current system won't boot up even with fsb 175 which would make core clock 2275...

and if there is such limit on 3000+, is there any easy way to go around it? I know my thermaltake volcano 12 can keep the core cool enough with some more mhz and volts...

secondly about the motherboard. you actually do have to clear cmos if you overclock the processor beyond the point it refuses start. freakckin' bios doesn't automatically go back to defaults like on asus a7v333 it did. and seems that clearing cmos is made difficult on purpose...

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