Ok as many of you are aware GW2 is releasing next week and sadly I haven't been able to get the funds for an upgrade. So in an attempt to increase my computers performance I'm doing some OCin and I just added another video cards so I'm SLI'd. Now I've never done a OC before and I definitely could use some help with the finer details I've already read memory dividers severals times and this thing keeps giving me the BSOD. Here's what I got 2 x EVGA 512-P3-N801-AR GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 1 x G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1 x OCZ GameXStream OCZ700GXSSLI 700W ATX12V 1 x XFX MB-N780-ISH9 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 780i SLI 1 x ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 7 Pro Rev.2 92mm Fluid Granted this system is several years hold now it's never beend OC'd up to this point. I think I had it running at 1.8Ghz but I heard I could get up to 3.4GHz with the right changes and cooling. Here is what I have for CPU IZ and Core Temp Currently: Any suggestions? When they were having the BWEs events I was able to run the game on mid settings with some slow down when shit got hectic. I'm guessing with a good a OC and the addition of the other card should be able to see some of the choppies go away. I plan on adding an addition 4GBs of RAM but not sure if that's going to help the game besides loading faster.
Your voltage is low if you are overclocking it. These are old processors and 1.325v is probably stock, you can put 1.45v and be fine if your cooling can handle it. I think the max voltage on these was like 1.5v or something, but dont go and try that till you research. I am not positive as this era was long ago for me and I dont remember for sure that 1.5v is safe. What you are going to want to do is leave the CPU multiplier at 7.5 and drop the RAM divider down 1 step. So if you are running DDR-800 then this drops you to DDR-667. Be sure and set your timings manually for the RAM to whatever your stock timings are. Once that is done and you have verified it is all working right, raise your FSB speed up by 10 and see what speed you are at and where things are. Also, are you sure 7.5 is your default multiplier? and 400 is your default FSB? I could have sworn default was 266MHz FSB or something like that. I really dont remember any board running 400MHz as default. But Core Temp says you are running 400 so if you are then whatever I guess I just remember things wrong. I know the top overclockers easily pushed up to 600MHz FSB anyway so I know 400MHz is perfectly doable. Anyway, keep raising your FSB by 10 until you cant boot into Windows or you get a Bluescreen. Back it down by 20MHz at that point and run some stress tests, if you still bluescreen then lower it more. If you dont Bluescreen then try running some games and see if it is all fine. At this point check your memory speed again and see what it is running at, hopwfully you are back up at or past your stock speed once again on the memory.
Right now I set my multiplier to 8. Will these changes help? I don't understand RAM division yet so I'm still figuring that out. I currently my voltage is at 1.4 the VID is the recommend voltage from what I learned not the VCore.
Try the setting from these tutorials http://www.youtube.com/results?sear...0.0.0.128.446.4j1.5.0...0.0...1ac.mVm2uMCDh90
VID is the stock setting, all processors are different. This is the same reason all processors overclock differently, some portions of silicon are better than other portions in the wafer that the batch comes from. And one day the machine could be running better than another so that batch will be better at overclocking than other day's batches. Same goes for bad days and bad silicon. Generally speaking, the silicon closer to the center of the wafer tends to have a slightly higher ratio of better overclocking chips. Depending on the VID and knowing the range specified for a specific processor can tell us things such as if the processor is high or low leakage, if the processor will overclock better on air cooling or liquid nitrogen, and how hot the processor will run compared to others of the same model. Vcore is the voltage you are sending to the processor, regardless of what VID is for your chip. So you can turn up your multiplier? Those processors arent unlocked which means 7.5 is not the default. If you are overclocking your processor you pretty much always want your CPU multiplier to be set at its highest allowable when you are dealing with a locked processor. In your case, there are a few specific scenarios I can think of that you would not want to be at the highest, but to start off with lets just set everything back to default and go from there.