tweak help please

[stevebri]

Hi All,

I'm going to rev up my AMD chip for now rather than buy a new one, if anyone can add to my theoretical stable clock below, please do (help)

XP 2500 barton
Asus A7V8X-X

I want to fill the 3 ram slots with good quality (corsair extreme) 512mb DDR 3200 (400fsb) and clock the chip to 3200 (400fsb) and run the ram ratio at 1.1

Does this sound 'right' can anyone add anything or point me in the right direction.

I just want to process my RAw files quicker.... :(

Steve

[Tom Nolle]

My experience is that RAW conversion is compute-intensive and not memory intensive, so unless you change the clock speed it may not matter much....

Tom

[stevebri]

hi Tom,

I thought so too, I want to clock the chip up too, but I don't want a hot, unstable 'gamer' toy So I thought if the RAM is good quality and good for 400fsb I can whack the chip up to 3200 and all will be well... I hope...

Also, if I do buy a P4 with 800 fsb the ram is good for that too...

Steve

[Wichita Wayne]

You might consider a CPU cooler that circulates a liquid through a radiator. They cost about $120 and allow you to avoid the heat trouble. The key is to keep the CPU below 170 degrees. Your Setup routine should tell you what the temp is and at what temp it will shut down. You should also get the Corsair Twin X memory with heat sinks designed for over clocking. To handle this memory the mother board needs to be designed for dual channel memory. A 64 bit processor would also help.

[Swampy]

I agree with Wayne. I've got some good copper memory heatsinks on mine. I dumped my water cooler setup though. It did do wonders for cooling. Took my 2.4ghz up to 3.1ghz without any problems.

[stevebri]

Thanks fella´s.

For me the RAM is the thing, cheap ram is exactly that and for me it is the one thing that always causes problems.

The reason I´m keeping this chip and not just buying a good system for 1k usd is because it apparently clocks very well... with good ram and doesn´t get too hot.

I have a great big cooler, a great 256mb vid card, nearly half a terrabyte of hdd space, plus cool built in card readers etc... So I figure buying even a barebones P4 system still is going to cost me more than I need to spend.

Do correct me if I`m wrong, I see this system as a stepping stone to when we all go 64 bit (software as well as HW). So if I get the best ram to chip this baby, use the best driver to get the most out of my vid card, latest bios for the mobo, all in a Lian Li case with super efficient super silent fans, I might just process a raw file in 10 seconds not 17...

I think Swampy´s P4 800 fsb does it in about 4 secs....!!!!

A quick point.... I tend to have most of my background stuff shut off in XP and when doing a batch raw conversion, I make sure Norton AV, Utilities etc are off, media player off, do you guys have any other ´dicas´ (tips) to share that might speed up the process....?

Thanks again chaps...

Steve