Re: Good Site for Overclocking Info
- From: "DRS" <drs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:33:27 +1100
BobS wrote:
Now that I have this system together and purring along at default
speeds, it's time to crank it up a bit:
[...]
I've found only about a zillion sites for overclocking and 99% of
those are mainly forums where even the geeks have trouble
understanding what is being said. Can anyone recommend a site or two
that has a decent format that explains what steps are to be taken to
change the necessary settings and test those changes? I've
overclocked some P3's in the past but never an AMD chip and the BIOS
settings certainly have grown considerably in the past couple of
years.
Install ASUS AI Boost and play with it from within XP. That way you can
dynamically change settings and see what happens, and it sets the BIOS for
you. Simultaneously run ASUS Probe and/or nTune Monitor to watch your temp,
voltage and fan behaviour. Later on, when you've done some more reading and
testing you can progress to manually tweaking the BIOS if you're keen to
extract that last 1%. Ironically, if the A8N32-SLI Deluxe BIOS defaults are
the same as the A8N-SLI Premium's (which I have), your CPU is already
running at 103%. :-)
Note though that AI Boost is incompatible with Cool'n'Quiet. However, I
find enabling QFan keeps things quiet enough and with reasonable temperature
ranges. I found tweaking the QFan threshold was worth about 3 degrees
Celcius when running my 4200+ at 110% under 100% load.
NB: to stress text your X2 3800+ remember to run two instances of Prime95 or
CPUBurn. Otherwise you'll only hit one core.
.
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