(see round 1 notes for full specs) After watching a quick youtube of a guy that hit 3.9Ghz (485MHz FSB) where he didn’t bat and eye about leaving his DDR2 at something around 1000MHz, I decided to copy his lead and give up on the 1:1 DRAM:FSB thing and just go for the CPU gusto… I wasn’t seeing much love at 485… it would somehow boot if I goosed the DRAM to 1349 or something like that… but Win7 would reset after boot logo… lower DRAM frequencies wouldn’t even boot until I set it to auto and it came back with 971 🙁 I’m at 420 FSB with 1400 DRAM now and holding in Win7 for a nice stretch here… that’s around 3.4GHz which is at respectable 26% increase… we shall see. Primary OC BIOS settings (gleaned from here)
- CPU Ratio = 8
- C1E = disabled (I have no idea)
- Max CPUID = disabled (ditto)
- FSB = 420
- FSB Strap = Auto
- PCIE Freq = 100
- DRAM freq = 1400’ish
- CPU Voltage = 1.39375 (he read that was the safe max somewhere)
- DRAM Voltage = 1.8 … haven’t played with this at all yet to see if lower would suffice
Temps reported from Everest:
Motherboard 34 °C (93 °F)
CPU 33 °C (91 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #1 44 °C (111 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #2 44 °C (111 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #3 43 °C (109 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #4 41 °C (106 °F)
