OC Amd 2500+ help

[eMO]

Mobile 2400+ is pretty good also, barton core.

AXP-M 2500+ is the best, Someone can overclock that to 2.8Ghz.
35sec finish 1M superpi

 

[wazzledoozle]

w00t

I just selected 3200+ in the bios, and put the cpu core at 1.7 volts and I booted into windows. The ram was overclcoked because I forgot to change it, but it seems to be fine. Now to test it. Is prime95 the only thing I need?

 

[eMO]

w00t

I just selected 3200+ in the bios, and put the cpu core at 1.7 volts and I booted into windows. The ram was overclcoked because I forgot to change it, but it seems to be fine. Now to test it. Is prime95 the only thing I need?

Prime 95 can check if your system is stable or not.
I recommend you run it if you want to keep OCing all the time

 

[fr33ze]

prime 95 and looping any 3dmark is the best method, i've had prime 95 run fine for hours but as soon as i try and run 3dmark it craps out so both are needed really.

 

[wazzledoozle]

Wow, running at stock voltage of 1.65 now instead of 1.7, and I havent had any errors with 3dmark03. Ive run the "torture" test in prime 95 for 1 hour and 2 minutes with 0 errors and 0 warnings. Do I need to run it longer? 3dmark03 doesnt have any errors, though I cant loop it because I dont have full version.

 

[Nobru_rv]

1 hour is enough.
Now only thing that remains is to check if your RAM goes to 2,2,2,5 or 2.5,2,2,7. U need to play with VDIMM also. Put it at 3.0 V and try 2,2,2,5. If it boots and satable then try 2.9V etc etc.

 

[wazzledoozle]

I left it running for about 3 hours with the prime95, and when I came back my comp had completely locked up not even the mouse would move. Will prime95 eventually crash a system from overloading it? No error was recorded in the log.

Also, can prime95 test for ram errors?

 

[YohanN]

Prime 95 does RAM testing anytime torture test is running, but there are options - you may choose to test harder CPU (less memory used) or RAM (max mem used) or both (almost equally)
And what about that hang-up - have u increased ur northbridge voltage (Vdd) ? At least 1,8V is an absolute must for ocing on nforce chipsets
And, remeber, that Prime 95 once hangs on any system /desktop - dont talk about servers/, no matter how stable, just problem of statistic - when using non-ECC RAM an error must occur once - only question is in which term of time...... but lets talk about terms of 24 hrs and more, 3 hrs is not enough - IMHO ur sys is not absolutely stable, but
dont forget that ur sys performs 100% output all the time Prime runs, normal use - even newest games will never do so

hopefully u understand my poor eng

 

[wazzledoozle]

Thanks. Your english is actually good.

Though im not overclocking the northbridge, the NF7-S v2.0 is designed to handle 400 mhz fsb.

 

[Nobru_rv]

No need to raise voltage of your NB.When u start OCing your Barton properly (i mean 220-240 fsb ;-)) then u will need to raise it. Try putting 1.7V on your CPU. Maybe you have a cpu that doesnt work 100% stable on stock voltage. YOu checked if your MBO undervolts maybe? Check it with cpu-z or similar.