Hi all,
I have an ASUS A7V333 with 512MB of OCZ PC-3200 and an Athlon 1800+ (core speed 1.53 Ghz)
I want to overclock the memory and board as fast as I can... currently my Athlon is still locked but through BIOS I am able to get these results with no crashes:
1.690 Mhz (12.5x multiplier, 147/37)
WCPUID says "System Bus: 294Mhz DDR" (147 x 2)
If I go any higher in BIOS settings than 147/37, the system starts locking up during 3DMark2001 SE Benchmarks.
This leads me to think that the vid card is limiting my OC-ing on this board, am I right? Or is it the board itself? Surely it is not the RAM.
With the VIA 333 chipset, the board should be able to go up to 333mhz, right?
Any idea what could be causing the system to lock up? I thought maybe it was my vid card because it starts locking up during 3DMark. I had an ATI Radeon 8500LE but I sent it back when I discovered it was only running at 230/230mhz. I could only tweak it to 240/240 with Powerstrip before it would start artifacting.
I want to buy a new video card for <$200 USD, so I was thinking of the Gigabyte Radeon 8500 which is a bit faster and has better cooling. Any other recommended cards for that price? Do I need a certain card to keep my system from locking up?
Right now I'm running my old Riva TNT2 32MB vid card until I decide what new card to get, but strangely I get the same mobo overclockability with this old card as the Radeon 8500. That leads me to think maybe the vid card is not the source of the lockups?
Thanks for any advice!
I have an ASUS A7V333 with 512MB of OCZ PC-3200 and an Athlon 1800+ (core speed 1.53 Ghz)
I want to overclock the memory and board as fast as I can... currently my Athlon is still locked but through BIOS I am able to get these results with no crashes:
1.690 Mhz (12.5x multiplier, 147/37)
WCPUID says "System Bus: 294Mhz DDR" (147 x 2)
If I go any higher in BIOS settings than 147/37, the system starts locking up during 3DMark2001 SE Benchmarks.
This leads me to think that the vid card is limiting my OC-ing on this board, am I right? Or is it the board itself? Surely it is not the RAM.
With the VIA 333 chipset, the board should be able to go up to 333mhz, right?
Any idea what could be causing the system to lock up? I thought maybe it was my vid card because it starts locking up during 3DMark. I had an ATI Radeon 8500LE but I sent it back when I discovered it was only running at 230/230mhz. I could only tweak it to 240/240 with Powerstrip before it would start artifacting.
I want to buy a new video card for <$200 USD, so I was thinking of the Gigabyte Radeon 8500 which is a bit faster and has better cooling. Any other recommended cards for that price? Do I need a certain card to keep my system from locking up?
Right now I'm running my old Riva TNT2 32MB vid card until I decide what new card to get, but strangely I get the same mobo overclockability with this old card as the Radeon 8500. That leads me to think maybe the vid card is not the source of the lockups?
Thanks for any advice!
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