Help me overclock my 3700 San Diego

[Sentient_Death]

I'm overclocking my comp for laughs and giggles, but I have ran into an obsticle that I cannot climb over. Hopefully you can help.

I have an Asus A8n32-SLI with a 3700 San Diego and some Corsair PC4400 PRO. I started overclocking by isolating the max OC from the FSB, then the Processor, and finally the memory. Finding the max on the FSB was cakewalk, It happened to be 310 MHz. But I cannot get a good OC from the Processor. I have the Processor Multiplier at 11x, the FSB multiplier at 3X. and the Memory at 1:11 to the FSB. The voltage for the Processor is set at 1.550V, yet I cannot raise the FSB over 250 MHz.

I appreciate any advice you might have.

 

[1Tanker]

I'm overclocking my comp for laughs and giggles, but I have ran into an obsticle that I cannot climb over. Hopefully you can help.

I have an Asus A8n32-SLI with a 3700 San Diego and some Corsair PC4400 PRO. I started overclocking by isolating the max OC from the FSB, then the Processor, and finally the memory. Finding the max on the FSB was cakewalk, It happened to be 310 MHz. But I cannot get a good OC from the Processor. I have the Processor Multiplier at 11x, the FSB multiplier at 3X. and the Memory at 1:11 to the FSB. The voltage for the Processor is set at 1.550V, yet I cannot raise the FSB over 250 MHz.

I appreciate any advice you might have.

What are you using for cooling? 250fsbx11=2750. First of all that's starting to get up there,especially with stock cooling. Secondly, your RAM
is running @250MHz also. Do you know, for sure that your RAM can do
this stably? You either need to raise the voltage to your RAM, Loosen RAM
timings, lower speed of RAM, or raise vCore of CPU, and/or get better
cooling. I don't think you're gonna get alot more out of that 3700.

GL

I missed what your RAM is...250 should be a breeze, but timings, and
voltage to RAM, could still use some tweaking. I would suggest ~2.75 to
2.85v.

 

[1Tanker]

Also, if you get it sorted out, and you can indeed get 2750 , then since your

RAM is rated for 275MHz, it might be worth trying 275x10. If you don't have

to loosen the mem timings too much, you should see some nice increase,

especially in bandwidth. 😱

 

[robgd]

and the Memory at 1:11 to the FSB

Sorry, this post doesn't contribute much to your problem. But I would like to know how you adjested the divder for your ram. I am on an A8N-SLI Deluxe Mainboard, but I cannot find my divider.

 

[2inthagoo]

i had a 3700 before i got my 4400, but it did 260x10 on stock volts(1.4v) 270x10 with 1.425, and 280x10 with 1.45. it would scale higher, but it wasnt stable much past 2850, no matter what the vcore was set at, i tried 1.625 max on it for some 3d benches at a touch more then 3ghz.