AMD64 Overclocking Guide (21/09/05) - discussion thread

[blackjok3r]

Sweet. If its good enough I might get one.

[mikalcarbine257]

5. with no video drivers still, I use Norton Ghost to backup my OS partition C:\ drive to a ghost image which is burnt to DVD-R/RW disc. This is fail safe backup incase you need to revert to a good OS or decide to change or play with different video drivers on a fresh OS install already made

Can anyone find me a guide for something like this? I would like to do the same but put the image on a spare hard drive. Great guide too

[eva2000]

By mikalcarbine257

Can anyone find me a guide for something like this? I would like to do the same but put the image on a spare hard drive. Great guide too

all you ever need to know about Ghost http://ghost.radified.com/

[NoOzL]

ta for the guide eva

U've helped me prove my S939 snaps LGA775 chips

[chantcd_com]

I don't exactly have an "extreme" O/C going on -- here are the specs:

Mobo: MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum
CPU: Amd 3500+ CPU (Newcastle .13 micron)
CPU voltage 1.55 + 5%
HT 225
LDT 4X
CPU mult 11X
DDR clock 166 MHz (which becomes 190 MHz)
Nforce 4 voltage: 1.6
Memory voltage: 2.65

So my CPU becomes a 2,508 MHz from a 2,200.

Anyhow, using Clockgen, I can see that my PCI bus is still 33 MHz, even though there is no "PCI lock" per se in the BIOS.

Nevertheless, right now my Audigy card -- the only PCI in the system (the only other card PERIOD is a PCI-Express ATI Sapphire X300) - is not being found by Windows XP.

What should I try doing? I am still using the stock BIOS -- v1.1. Should I upgrade to v1.5 (which I found on MSI's website)?
I can't figure out why it can't find the card. I would try enabling the onboard sound, but that would lower my recording quality.

I am one of those few that actually needs an add-in card For movies, games, listening to music, and 99% of the population, integrated sound is just fine. But if you're hooking up a microphone to record singing, etc. -- then there's a lot of noise if you use an onboard sound card.

Thanks,

Matthew

[eva2000]

chantcd_com best answered in your own thread rather than cross posting Audigy disappeared after overclocking!

[alpha0ne]

By NoOzL

ta for the guide eva

U've helped me prove my S939 snaps LGA775 chips

Was there ever any doubt ???? , only ignorant fanboys or those with a not so hidden agenda (you know the type, they get free intel CPU's) would try and say otherwise

[Dr.Clean]

I just purchased the following:


Processor - AMD Athlon™ 64 Dual X2 4400+
Motherboard - Asus A8N SLI Premium
Graphics Card - BFG GeForce 7800
Memory - OCZ 1GB DDR 400MHZ PC3200 DDR EL Platinum Edition Dual Channel Revision 2
Hard drive - Seagate Barracuda 80 GB 7200 RPM
Hard Drive 2 - Seagate Barracuda 250GB 7200 RPM
Chassis - Thermaltake Kandalf
Keyboard- Logitech Elite
Mouse - Logitech MX518 Optical
DVD-RW - NEC Black IDE DVD Burner Model ND-3540A
Power Supply - OCZ PowerStream 600w
Monitor - DELL Ultrasharp 2005FPW 20"
Water Cooling - Thermaltake Internal BigWater

And i have now read this guide 4 times fully and still get

Basically spending on this money I dont want to screw up my pc and was wondering roughly what I should be increasing and to what.

Thanks guys.