Any suggestions to help my 1700 JIUHB?

[woodman19_99]

So Kruz, Justintime, PT or anyone else, I just yesterday received my 8RDA+, XP 1700 JIUHB, 2x512 PC3200 Crucial, Coolermaster HAV-801(I think that is the right model number), and AS3. Since I bought these specifically for my first attempt to overclock anything, do you have any tips to help me get the best bang for my buck or should I just leave it up to trial and error? My main goal is to see if I can beat my P4 2.4 System

 

[PT]

2x512 PC3200 Crucial

Drool.

First of all, unlock it. You know how to do that?

 

[woodman19_99]

No clue. Like I said, this is my first try.

 

[Justintime]

I think its unlocked already, as its a Tbred B, try lower multiplier and 3200 speeds fsb combination, when you start not booting try a higher vcore, e.g no boot at 2.2Ghz @ 1.65v, try 1.7v etc.. after you've reached a speed you're happy with, test with prime 95 for a few hours, that chip should do well past 2Ghz+.

 

[PT]

Where do you get Prime 95? I've got a little program called CPUBurn. I use that to see what kind of max temp I'm gonna get, but I've never used Prime95, I don't think.

 

[Justintime]

ftp://mersenne.org/gimps/p95v2212.exe

install, say just stress testing, go options- tourture test.

 

[PT]

Ok, sent myself the link. I think I'd better not run it on this P2 @400 they give me here at work. Liable to kill the poor thing. Wait a minute, if I kill it, they might get me a new one.

 

[Justintime]

Heheh, you'd be surprised as to how much systems fail prime 95, stuff thats stable 24/7 can fail in minutes even OEM systems, its really picky about its calculations and ANY deviation fails it, if you survive 24hrs your cpu/memory is pretty much rock stable.

 

[Professur]

HEHE. What if???


Install that as a service on a machine and hide it? To start on a schedule at, oh, say, five past three?

 

[Kruz]

looks like you have some good stuff... we may have a new member of the 2.5 gig club

 

[Justintime]

Heres hoping

 

[PT]

Install that as a service on a machine and hide it? To start on a schedule at, oh, say, five past three?

Have to make that about 5 past 5. But it's giving me ideas.

 

[chcr]

I think I'd better not run it on this P2 @400 they give me here at work.

Heh. I wiped and set one of those up today to give to someone who is probably not going to like it any more than you do.

Note: My work machine is a Celeron 800 w/128 megs of RAM, so it's no great shakes either.

 

[PT]

Ok, got Prime95 running, will it quit on an error or do you have to look in the log files to see if you get errors?

 

[Justintime]

Notice its red in the task tray? it'll halt and the icon will go yellow, anoter reason i HATE HATE HATE yellow.

 

[PT]

Well, it's been running now for about a half hour, but its more of a hot pink.

 

[Justintime]

yea, pinkish, anything of that nature

 

[Justintime]

but its definetly yellow on fail, else i hate yellow for no reason

 

[woodman19_99]

HEre's a little update. The previously mentioned setup is running just started running prime95 with a multiplier of 12 and FSB of 170, and a VCORE at 1.65. The temp at startup was 28 C on both the chip and the case. I'll run Prime for 3 hours to see if I get any issues. I'll write back late tonight or tomorrow with more updates.

 

[woodman19_99]

Alright, here's the poop(albeit a little late):

It seems as though 12.5x170 is as high as it wants to go, evne if I up the VCORE. I kept getting errors within 10 seconds of running prime if I upped the FSB, even if I did drop the multiplier down (note: I kept the VCORE at stock so as not to crispy fry anything important). Also, I upped the memory to 213 MHz, and haven't tried to go much higher. I have no clue what to do with the memory timings, they seem to be set at 9-4-4-3 or something like that. I thought my RAM would be able to do better than that, but I am a little wary of playing around with it till I get some more information. Also, the RAM does not have any heat spreaders on it so maybe that could be the problem.

I was wondering if anyone had suggestions to get better speeds out of the memory and the CPU, short of buying a Prometia cooling system. I think the Power Supply is a CompUsa 431 Watt, but I will check when I get home.