Overclocking Help Please

[sheik124]

I know overclocking is kind of like the lottery, so I bought 5 tickets to improve my chances of winning, by using a big-ass, always rated great cooler (Zalman CNPS 7000A-AlCu), some Arctic Silver 5, a case with good cooling (Kingwin K-11-BK i believe), a good power supply (Enermax 470W Noisetaker), and a good mobo and some good ram (Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe+512 MB Kingston HyperX PC3700).
I have one teensie weensie problem, i cannot go beyond 208 FSB and boot to windows (1:1 fsb/RAM ratio) no matter how much voltage i put through, i am soon replacing my XP 2500+ with a mobile xp 2500+, and i wanna know, could my ram be the problem? it has hynix chips and i am actually using higher ram timings than recommended to give me more overclocking room but it won't even run at its labeled speed. and if i do replace it, i am probably getting some dual-channel 1 GB ram, but should i get OCZ or Mushkin?

 

[Slougi]

It's either the ram or the mobo.

 

[james.miller]

being pc3700 it isnt going to be the ram.......

thats what you get for buying an asus. you should have got an abit or DFI motherboard.

 

[Xade]

Gigabyte slaughters all.

...me...biased?...nahhhh...

I've got a question about ram though. I'm running dual channel pc3200 now, two 512 DIMMs. If I buy a third block of 512 and slot it in, presumably losing dual channel, what will the speed hit be? Noticeable?

 

[james.miller]

not in the slightest. you wont notice it.

oh, and abit > Gigabyte

 

[sheik124]

hmm, i fixed my problem by forcing single channel (got me high stable ram speeds) and i figured out that i got a shait CPU, gonna replace it with teh mobile

 

[blight]

As far as i know motherboards for desktop pcs are not designed to work with mobile CPUs (altough they should) - some work, others don't iirc

 

[sheik124]

the AMD Athlon XP Mobile is a normal athlon that is selected from a special batch that can pull 1.45V stable operation and is multiplier unlocked to comply with AMD's PowerNow laptop power saving features