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I just purchased SK8V and FX51 and this is my first AMD chip ever!
(I manage to get free pentiums in my line of work)
Best thing was that I managed to get the FX51 for £270 inc VAT as it
was on a clearance list !! (not £400-500 everywhere else!)
ok, so I brought myself a 120GB SATA (Seagate Barracuda) disk as well
to increase overall performance, I guessed that a decent PSU with SATA
connectors would also be a good buy so I purchased an ASAKA 460W (AK
P460FG-BL)
- I received my parts in a few days, set it all up - going through
various problems of the SATA controller type and drivers for windows
installation (flopppy disk was not connected properly also!)
So I've had a bit of a poo time.
So now, the system is up and I've got manual settings in the BIOS
voltage 1.60
multiplier = 11
HTT = 215.2
and it overclocks to 2367.1Mhz (not bad for a newbie with a 2.2Ghz
chip!)
I've had a lot of trouble with the system not POSTing - when I finally
decided to plug my speakers in and see if the ASUS Speach Error system
said anything, it did! "System Failure - the CPU has failed"
Now, this is where it gets wierd and I'm looking for explainations
regarding this:
The PSU has an external switch, if the system were to hang and I would
turn the PC off with the !PC! switch - when I start up again the
keyboard does not flash indicating that the system has hung!
If I turn off the !PSU! switch, the keyb lights up! - now... NOT ALL
the time does the P.C POST, I have to sit here for ages trying to get
into the BIOS so I can lower one of the settings so it can boot
properly.
As soon as I up the HTT to say 220 or 218 the system either hangs or
in the latter comes up with garbage.
When I'm upping my HTT, do I up my voltage ? and by how much?
How can I set my multiplier above 11? (>2.2Ghz) i.e. what sort of
settings do I need for voltage?
With my current settings, the ram frequency at 139.2 (which is
obviously 278.4Mhz)
OK, that said.. does Memory have ANYTHING to do with overclocking
LIMIT at all?
Because I've got some RAM as well (you need that!) its 2 x 512MB of
DDR 266 ECC, reg, Infiniteon (2.5-3-3-3CL 1CMD - whatever that
means?). So, this RAM is ok.. they were free and hopefully in a couple
of months I'm gonna get some 2x512 TwinX corsair 3200LLPT and then buy
another pack again in a couple more months.
Any help would be much appreciated, any insights into what I'm doing
would be great.. and also if anyone knows why my speakers crackle when
I touch case would be apprec too
- just gonna go to my brothers now
to get some help on this crackling! He says its shorting, which aint
good - but I know he wants to try AutoCAD on it!)
Thanks and Kind regards -Robin
I just purchased SK8V and FX51 and this is my first AMD chip ever!
(I manage to get free pentiums in my line of work)
Best thing was that I managed to get the FX51 for £270 inc VAT as it
was on a clearance list !! (not £400-500 everywhere else!)
ok, so I brought myself a 120GB SATA (Seagate Barracuda) disk as well
to increase overall performance, I guessed that a decent PSU with SATA
connectors would also be a good buy so I purchased an ASAKA 460W (AK
P460FG-BL)
- I received my parts in a few days, set it all up - going through
various problems of the SATA controller type and drivers for windows
installation (flopppy disk was not connected properly also!)
So I've had a bit of a poo time.
So now, the system is up and I've got manual settings in the BIOS
voltage 1.60
multiplier = 11
HTT = 215.2
and it overclocks to 2367.1Mhz (not bad for a newbie with a 2.2Ghz
chip!)
I've had a lot of trouble with the system not POSTing - when I finally
decided to plug my speakers in and see if the ASUS Speach Error system
said anything, it did! "System Failure - the CPU has failed"
Now, this is where it gets wierd and I'm looking for explainations
regarding this:
The PSU has an external switch, if the system were to hang and I would
turn the PC off with the !PC! switch - when I start up again the
keyboard does not flash indicating that the system has hung!
If I turn off the !PSU! switch, the keyb lights up! - now... NOT ALL
the time does the P.C POST, I have to sit here for ages trying to get
into the BIOS so I can lower one of the settings so it can boot
properly.
As soon as I up the HTT to say 220 or 218 the system either hangs or
in the latter comes up with garbage.
When I'm upping my HTT, do I up my voltage ? and by how much?
How can I set my multiplier above 11? (>2.2Ghz) i.e. what sort of
settings do I need for voltage?
With my current settings, the ram frequency at 139.2 (which is
obviously 278.4Mhz)
OK, that said.. does Memory have ANYTHING to do with overclocking
LIMIT at all?
Because I've got some RAM as well (you need that!) its 2 x 512MB of
DDR 266 ECC, reg, Infiniteon (2.5-3-3-3CL 1CMD - whatever that
means?). So, this RAM is ok.. they were free and hopefully in a couple
of months I'm gonna get some 2x512 TwinX corsair 3200LLPT and then buy
another pack again in a couple more months.
Any help would be much appreciated, any insights into what I'm doing
would be great.. and also if anyone knows why my speakers crackle when
I touch case would be apprec too
- just gonna go to my brothers nowto get some help on this crackling! He says its shorting, which aint
good - but I know he wants to try AutoCAD on it!)
Thanks and Kind regards -Robin
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