Is this a good OC?

[Bizkitkid2001]

xp2100 thoroughbred @ 2.1ghz
5900 non ultra @ 5900 ultra


The multiplyer is at 14 and the FSB is at 150mhz.

I am using kingston pc2700 value ram, but it does not want to run at 166mhz no matter how hard i try to get it to run. I've used defualt voltage, 2.6v, and 2.7v, but everytime i get to the desktop it restarts. I think this is probably why its called the cheap value ram.

For my video card, i can't seem to get it to be stable at 5950 ultra speeds. I've seen a lot of people with my card get it past 5950 ultra speeds, but when I run it at those speeds i get artifacts, and games tend to stutter and i get lower 3dmark scores. It seems to run slower if I go above 5900 ultra speeds.

3dmark2k1: 13419

I was wondering if this is a good OC? And if this is a good score for it as well.

I will get 3dmark2k3 scores as soon as I install my new hard drive(Don't have any space left to install 2k3, lol)

-Biz

[rourkchris]

What mobo are you using. How mamy sticks of RAM are you using?

[Bizkitkid2001]

Epox 8RDA+ I'm using one stick of 512mb pc2700.

[rourkchris]

Try changing the RAM to another slot. OCing that XP2100+ to 2.1GHz is a nice OC!

[Bizkitkid2001]

Yeah i thought it was a nice OC too. Tomorrow I will move the ram over a slot and see if that does anything(If i can fit it with my big honkin 5900, geeze that thing is long)

Full load temps for the cpu before OC was 40°C and after is 43-44°C. Not to bad of a rise in temp for that high of an OC. It beats my friend XP2600 and 5900 in 3dmark scores.

[VHockey86]

Rather than trying to increase the DDR voltage, relax the memory timings and latencies

[Bizkitkid2001]

I've done that, i've set them back to defualt settings and the ram still doesn't want to run at defualt speeds.

[VHockey86]

Might be a bad stick... have u ran memtest86 on it? It should also be possible though to set the timings slower than default.

[Bizkitkid2001]

I have run memtest and nothing came up. I will set the cas from 2.5 to 3 tomorrow and see if that helps.

[pinoy87]

what is the 5900 clocked at? stock versus oc? just want to know.