Overclocking General

Re: Safe Temp. on an am2 nforce 570 board

warlord — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:18:54 GMT

Yellow channel should be the closest to the cpu and from that designation shoulbe yellow slots 1, 2 black slots 3, 4 going from cpu toward the edge of the motherboard hope that helps

Re: Safe Temp. on an am2 nforce 570 board

PARTON1080 — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:16:58 GMT

I guess I need to figure out which dimm my board ID's as which. I figure they are in order, but are they left to right, or right to left? (The dimm's being to the right of the cpu socket from my perspective)

Re: Safe Temp. on an am2 nforce 570 board

warlord — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 03:45:34 GMT

Does it give a performance hit that is tangable between having the stick and being forced to run the timing or not having the stick?

Re: Safe Temp. on an am2 nforce 570 board

bob_on_the_cob — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:28:47 GMT

I would just avoid using slot 2.

Re: Safe Temp. on an am2 nforce 570 board

PARTON1080 — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:47:01 GMT

Definitely wierd, it's an Abit KN9 nforce 570 sli. probably not the best choice, but when I built this rig I knew even less than I know now:)

Re: Safe Temp. on an am2 nforce 570 board

bob_on_the_cob — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:35:13 GMT

I'm not that familiar with AM2 boards but that seems weird to me. What board do you have?

Re: Safe Temp. on an am2 nforce 570 board

PARTON1080 — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:21:06 GMT

It is my understanding that on this am2 board, the ram is a function of the internal cpu clock (because it has an integrated memory controller? That is just my understanding, not necessarily how it actually is.). In cpu-z the ram page always says cpu/ 6 or 7 or 8 or 9, depending on cpu multi and RAM speed rating in the bios(ddr 533, 667, 800). I haven't thought of a way to confirm this yet; I do know that if I simply raise the multiplier, my board automatically lowers the ram speed, ie, changes from cpu/6 to cpu/7. Investigated this last night but went back to stable settings after I grew tired of sitting in the floor resetting the cmos. :)

On a side note, what are DQS timings and memclock tri-stating? They are both disabled but my board doesn't recognize my RAM, so this may not be the best setting.

And any clue why my board is defaulting the Trfc (I think?) to the following? If I change DIMM 2 to match the rest it won't post.

I think I'm in DIMM's 3 & 4 ( farthest 2 from cpu ) but I do not know.

DIMM1 = 70 ns

DIMM2 = 127.5 ns

DIMM3 = 70 ns

DIMM4 = 70 ns

Re: Safe Temp. on an am2 nforce 570 board

bob_on_the_cob — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:29:56 GMT

I don't quite understand you but Ram is directly changed by your FSB. If you change the multiplier the RAM will stay the same.

Re: Safe Temp. on an am2 nforce 570 board

PARTON1080 — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:13:50 GMT

If it's off, it's off by some bias because it does change as it should (rises and falls with voltage and cpu load). When I get home I may find the nerve to try such a thing.

bob_on_the_cob:
it might be reporting a wrong temp try to push it a little more if it crashes back off.

Do you know if my ram divider will change if I go to 12.5 cpu multi? I do know that going to 14X changes it from cpu/6 to cpu/something. Stock is cpu/8 with cpu at 15 x 200.

Re: Safe Temp. on an am2 nforce 570 board

bob_on_the_cob — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:56:18 GMT

it might be reporting a wrong temp try to push it a little more if it crashes back off.

Re: Safe Temp. on an am2 nforce 570 board

PARTON1080 — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:52:48 GMT

That's in an antec 900 too. North Bridge (I think) HS right by the rear exhaust. Pried the Silent OTES nameplate off the HS and it helped a little. @ 1.375 V the temps stay under 61C, which is still hotter than the cpu max (51C). It is a bit of a bummer as the cpu could be pushed farther (it's on stock cooling at the moment), but the mobo temp is limiting me. Is this common? I am accustomed to hearing about cpu temps limiting people.

Re: Safe Temp. on an am2 nforce 570 board

bob_on_the_cob — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:34:07 GMT

Thats pretty warm. It if you have a extra fan try moving it to blow over the nothbridge. I like to keep my northbridge about the same as my cpu.

Safe Temp. on an am2 nforce 570 board

PARTON1080 — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:15:58 GMT

I have an abit board and a 6000+ currently at 3.18 Ghz (265 x 12) with 1.375 V. HT is at 4X (1060 Mhz) and RAM is at 530 Mhz, 1060 DDR of course (cpu/6). I have good cpu temps and thus could tolerate more vcore, but my chipset gets really hot (65 C and higher) with 1.4 V +. How hot can it run day in and day out, and is the AUX temp reported by speedfan and CPUId in fact the chipset temp? Am I correct in assuming that AUX is the mobo temp? I have a grasp of acceptable cpu and gpu temps but no value of acceptable chipset limits.