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jAkUp
12-19-04, 11:03 AM
Check it out:
http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle.cfm?articleid=613
Benchmarks included
saturnotaku
12-19-04, 11:07 AM
Interesting. The real differences lie more in the temperatures as opposed to overall clock speed. My .13 3500+ overclocks pretty well considering mine was made pretty early in the S939 process. I know it can go higher than the 2430 in my sig, but my memory isn't up to the task. Gonna have to wait at least a month or two before I can upgrade that. :(
CaptNKILL
12-19-04, 11:40 AM
Why do you have to upgrade your RAM? There are a few threads here about A64 overclocking and they say it works just as well to overclock the CPU independantly from the RAM.
saturnotaku
12-19-04, 11:52 AM
Because this stuff is PC3700 and it won't run at its rated speed. Highest I can get is DDR450 at 1T or else SuperPi will fail. It wouldn't be a big deal to me if I could get this stuff to run at its rated speed, but no dice. And PMI has been ignoring my e-mails about an RMA so I'm pretty well stuck.

I had tried some Corsair PC3200 and it was stable all the way up to 260 1:1 so I know the memory is the problem. Above 240 1:1 on the RAM I have now, my system won't even POST.
CaptNKILL
12-19-04, 12:40 PM
Because this stuff is PC3700 and it won't run at its rated speed. Highest I can get is DDR450 at 1T or else SuperPi will fail. It wouldn't be a big deal to me if I could get this stuff to run at its rated speed, but no dice. And PMI has been ignoring my e-mails about an RMA so I'm pretty well stuck.

I had tried some Corsair PC3200 and it was stable all the way up to 260 1:1 so I know the memory is the problem. Above 240 1:1 on the RAM I have now, my system won't even POST.
Oh ok... well from what I have read, A64s dont show much (if any) performance difference when using different memory\HTT dividers, so rather than buy new RAM, you could just use a divider to overclock more.

I think this was the guide everyone was linking to a while back:
http://www.insanetek.com/index.php?page=overclocka64
saturnotaku
12-19-04, 02:40 PM
Oh ok... well from what I have read, A64s dont show much (if any) performance difference when using different memory\HTT dividers, so rather than buy new RAM, you could just use a divider to overclock more.

My HTT is already at 270, but I'm running 6:5 for 225 on my RAM.