Got some free time coming up, so the first thing I decided to do was get my PC set up.
Just went out and bought some slightly used Arctic Silver 5 thermal paste off a mate for 50p, should be enough for 3 applications, although I only need one. Reason for it is that under heavy load my CPU goes up to just over 50C, although my system temperature stays at 28C. I'm also going to have to consider a fan in my side panel, as my VRMs are going to 40C at stock volts at 100% load.
Next thing I've done is drop my RAM speeds my DDR400 to DDR266 speeds using a divider. The reason for this is taht the RAM speeds is related directly to the FSB, so with the high FSBs I'm planning my RAM simply cannot cope
I'll be using OCGuru mainly to overclock, with SuperPi and SP2004 (a mod for Prime95) for speed testing and stability.
I'm planning on starting tomorrow, with way more on Thursday and Friday as I'm free both days.
Just to let you know, I'm aiming for 280mhz FSB SP2004 stable - which would mean that my CPU would be as stable at stock as at overclocked - 280mhz * a mulitplier of 9 = 2520mhz which is 720mhz over my stock.
My specs are:
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice Socket 939
Abit AX8 (Version 1 with BIOS 1.4) - this is a new BIOS flash and so I'm hoping to get over the 280mhz FSB which was the board limit with BIOS 1.1; over 280mhz FSB with that BIOS meant the board refused to post until it was restarted, when it returned the CPU to default
1GB TwinMOS Dual Channel RAM (PC3200=DDR400)
SATA Seagate Barracuda 200GB
480W Tagan TG480-U01
Just went out and bought some slightly used Arctic Silver 5 thermal paste off a mate for 50p, should be enough for 3 applications, although I only need one. Reason for it is that under heavy load my CPU goes up to just over 50C, although my system temperature stays at 28C. I'm also going to have to consider a fan in my side panel, as my VRMs are going to 40C at stock volts at 100% load.
Next thing I've done is drop my RAM speeds my DDR400 to DDR266 speeds using a divider. The reason for this is taht the RAM speeds is related directly to the FSB, so with the high FSBs I'm planning my RAM simply cannot cope
I'll be using OCGuru mainly to overclock, with SuperPi and SP2004 (a mod for Prime95) for speed testing and stability.
I'm planning on starting tomorrow, with way more on Thursday and Friday as I'm free both days.
Just to let you know, I'm aiming for 280mhz FSB SP2004 stable - which would mean that my CPU would be as stable at stock as at overclocked - 280mhz * a mulitplier of 9 = 2520mhz which is 720mhz over my stock.
My specs are:
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice Socket 939
Abit AX8 (Version 1 with BIOS 1.4) - this is a new BIOS flash and so I'm hoping to get over the 280mhz FSB which was the board limit with BIOS 1.1; over 280mhz FSB with that BIOS meant the board refused to post until it was restarted, when it returned the CPU to default
1GB TwinMOS Dual Channel RAM (PC3200=DDR400)
SATA Seagate Barracuda 200GB
480W Tagan TG480-U01