3800+ OC'ing

[jgoette]

OK Sorry to bug ya'll as i'm sure your tired of giving first time advice, but here we go...

Basically I'm doing a short-term upgrade to my mobo, psu, and case right now... I decided to get a cheap mobo to replace my current one because I am going to wait awhile to get the new phenom II's...

I'm getting the A780FullHD because it supposedly has decent oc'ing options and my cpu is a Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Windsor and my memory is OCZ DDR2 PC2-6400 SLI-Ready Edition.

Can anyone give me some pointers on how to start doing this? Does the CAS Latency of 4-4-4-15 give me any advantage pertaining to oc'ing?

Thanks ya'll!

 

[Mondoman]

Check out the excellent overclocking guides among the forum stickies.

 

[megamanx00]

Yeah check an overclocking sticky. You can start by lowering the RAM speed, which will raise the memory divider, and loosening your timings. Obviously you have to raise your FSB to overclock. Read the sticky

 

[megamanx00]

That A780FullHD is a great board by the way, but it's not newb friendly for overclocking. Make sure you understand what all the default settings are and what each setting does before you go messing around with it.

 

[jgoette]

That A780FullHD is a great board by the way, but it's not newb friendly for overclocking. Make sure you understand what all the default settings are and what each setting does before you go messing around with it.

alright, well i'm glad to hear i picked an ok board for this step-up upgrade

 

[jgoette]

alright i got all my new stuff set up, but when i went in to start oc'ing and to set the HTT from 10 to 7, and up'ed the FSB to 215 and rebooted, CPU-Z says the HTT is still at 10, yet the FSB is at 215... help?