Overclocking with my board...

[WorldIndustries]

Okay, I'm gonna start overclocking this thing. I know I didn't pick the best board with the money I had, but I'm gonna' have to live with it.

So the board has no PCI lock. Other than that, it has enough options for decent overclocking, I guess. Voltage controls, FSB control, HT control, memory control...

I know one instance with some guy using the exact same board overclocking his 64 3000+ to a 21% increase. So my goal is going to be 20%...


So with my own attempt (keep in mind, I suck at overclocking modern systems), I set my PC2100 DDR back to 200MHz instead of 266, so I won't run into memory related problems... I also upped the voltage of the CPU 5% (There are settings for up to 15%?).

I then used EasyTune5, got the overclock to 13%, where the system automatically rebooted. I think the guy referred to changing the HT, but I'm not quite sure what this does, or what to set it on (default is 1000MHz)

Anyone know what I can do to overclock more? Up the voltage? Change HT settings?

[reggie_da_man]

Change the HT multiplier to 4x from 5x and try that. If there is no PCI lock then that's probably whats kicking you in the ***.

[WorldIndustries]

Do all MSI boards have PCI lock? I might be able to get one in the near future, if they're that good for overclocking.

[WorldIndustries]

Ok, dropped HT to 800MHz, and so far, I've got a pretty stable overclock @ 2.6 GHz, which is pretty much my 20% overclocking goal.


EDIT: **** nevermind. It locked up during SuperPi for 1M. I'm going to up the voltage 5% and see if that helps.


EDIT AGAIN: Okay, upping the voltage worked! SuperPi on 1M went from 58 seconds stock, to 47 seconds OC'd.

[WorldIndustries]

WoOtAgE. I figured it out. WIth no AGP lock, my video card kept crapping out at full speed. So I set AGP to 4x from 8x, and now everything works perfectly at 2.61GHz.

I might even be able to overclock more, but I'm going to save that for when I get my two 1GB sticks of Geil DDR400.