Re: Good Site for Overclocking Info

"DRS" <drs@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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.


DRS,

Good suggestion on *starting out* with the AI Boost to learn and see the
results. You're correct about the default settings, it is running at about
3% over default. I thought I had changed something while getting familiar
with that program.

Appreciate your input,

Bob S.


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