I'm having trouble overclocking my AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice Core, could my motherboard be the culprit? help?

Question

I have a ECS KN1 SLI Lite motherboard with Phoenix Award Bios, and when I try to step the processor speed up, it actually runs a tad slower. I've read all over the net that these are great processors for overclocking, up 40% on "air." The default Clock speed is 200 with 10 multipliers. I cant go up on the multipliers, but when i step the clock speed up even just a bit (210), CPU Z shows me at something like 1996Mhz, where as stock I am 2009Mhz. I don't get it! Anyone know what's wrong with my stuff? I have an inkling my motherboard has something to do with it. Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

The NF-4 chipset of your mobo paired with your Venice core proc is great for overclocking. That pair should do up to 2.8gHz.



Check in CPUZ whether your adjustment (210 mHz clock speed) is reflected as bus speed. If not, probably you are not saving your settings. OR your PCI clock is not locked that is why your adjustment is just returned to default settings.



This might be of help:

http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/13815

Answer 2

Bah dont ever by ECS, they are cheap and made to break...I once went through 4 in a row and vowed never to buy them again....I have no doubt its your motherboard

Answer 3

It is likely that whatever you are using for testing is skipping cycles and slowing down because memory or something else can't respond fast enough so is throwing in waits.

Answer 4

Om;y if your motherboard, has a Intel chipset, Intel doesn't allow overclocking.

Answer 5

use disk cleanup