Trouble overclocking

Ihsahn · Post by **Ihsahn** » 17 Oct 2007, 08:16

I have a old AMD Athlon 64 3000+(Venice) that i am trying to overclock on the Asrock 9398x-m motherboard. The motherboard box says that this board has lots of overclocking features. The problem is i cant seem to get it to work i tried setting the clock frequency to x10 giving to see if i could get ae a 200Mhz gain with FSB 400 and 1.45 v but it only gives me a 10mgz gain.
Anyone know what i am doing wrong?

Hman · Post by **Hman** » 17 Oct 2007, 08:35

try setting your "fsb" higher, start with 220MHz, whilst lowering your HTT multiplier.

Rish_zn · Post by **Rish_zn** » 17 Oct 2007, 08:53

LOLz u set the fsb to 400 with a 10 multi.. thats 4000mhz.. u wont get that...

If im not mistaken a Venice 3000+ clocks default is at 1800mhz... So multi should be 200* 9 standard. Leave multi as normal 9, increase fsb in small increments.. 220 will be a good start as hman said, increase vcore slightly drop the ram speeds to 166/333 provided u have ddr 400 ram. u should get 200hmz increase.. and work your way up from there...

Ihsahn · Post by **Ihsahn** » 17 Oct 2007, 08:55

Thaks guys will try now

psYChowIt · Post by **psYChowIt** » 17 Oct 2007, 16:18

Rish is correct. Try that

Ihsahn · Post by **Ihsahn** » 17 Oct 2007, 17:30

Ok tried it and it worked perfectly have been running games for a couple of hours now and no crashing so i assume its stable, next question how far could i expect to push it on stock cooling temps are 45 at heavy load

pienkie · Post by **pienkie** » 17 Oct 2007, 17:32

I dont know about the Venice cores, but i hav a 3700+ San Diego, which runs at 2.2 stock, and i got it stable at 2.8 if that is any indication...

Ihsahn · Post by **Ihsahn** » 17 Oct 2007, 17:35

pienkie wrote:I dont know about the Venice cores, but i hav a 3700+ San Diego, which runs at 2.2 stock, and i got it stable at 2.8 if that is any indication...

that sounds promising im gonna try it now SLOWLY

FTB_Screamer · Post by **FTB_Screamer** » 17 Oct 2007, 18:44

Ihsahn wrote:Ok tried it and it worked perfectly have been running games for a couple of hours now and no crashing so i assume its stable, next question how far could i expect to push it on stock cooling temps are 45 at heavy load

I pushed mine to about 2.6 GHz, with a 0.02 Vcore increase (2.4 Ghz with no VCore inrease needed) on stock cooling. My case was very cool so it never went above 50C.

BTW the max temp the venice can run without damage is about 57C , so monitor your temps regulary.

psYChowIt · Post by **psYChowIt** » 17 Oct 2007, 18:46

I've got a 3000+ here... Should try oc it sometime and run sum super pi's

Ihsahn · Post by **Ihsahn** » 17 Oct 2007, 19:13

Got it to 2.3 Ghz running fine so far will monitor temps while i load oblivion up quicks

psYChowIt · Post by **psYChowIt** » 17 Oct 2007, 19:20

2.3? nice!

Ihsahn · Post by **Ihsahn** » 17 Oct 2007, 19:45

psYChowIt wrote:2.3? nice!

Thanks it looks like this is as far as i can go temps are 53 with oblivion but no crashes

thanks again for the help guys much much appreciated.