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treefortkid
06-22-2006, 09:38 PM
Hello everyone, I thought I would try out the systool for my first water cooled overclocked system. I realize the PF5 is a terrible board for overclocking, but I won it at a lanparty recently, so if I have too I can buy a better one.

I have an Intel Pentium D 805 Smithfield 533Mhz FSB LGA775
2 Gigs of Aeneon (Infinion) DDR2 533Mhz Ram, timing 4.4.4.11 I think (which I had to manually set in the bios)
Swiftech H20-120 Premium Liquid cooling kit
74 gig WD Raptor drive

The issue I am having is when I overclock my system over 160Mhz FSB I loose my SATA drives. Ive seen many reviews of this motherboard and they all have the same results as mine. Also, when I run systool I can get my CPUFSB up to 175 before it reboots. I think this has something to do with the PCIE fsb going too high.

When I turn off the PCIE, CPUFSB Sync Lock I can't change the PCIE clock seperatly in Systool. Is this normal? or am I missing something. If I could somehow get my PCIE clock to stay at 120Mhz PCIE couldn't I get my CPU clock alot higher without loosing my SATA drives?

Also, I have tried ClockGen, but the ICS for my motherboard is not there, and the closest compatible doesent support the PCIE Bus, so that pretty much rules it out.

I don't want to settle for 160FSB/3.2Ghz with this water cooling kit.
Any help is appriciated!

KennyT772
06-22-2006, 10:12 PM
i would get a better motherboard such as a dfi for overclocking the extent you want.

treefortkid
06-22-2006, 11:56 PM
Im sure there is a way to get more speed out of this motherboard... its just a matter of how and what tool. Is there any way to adjust the PCIE clock seperate from the CPU clock in systool?

Azn Tr14dZ
06-23-2006, 12:14 AM
You download latest BIOS? There are quite a few ECS motherboards that became better overclockers from a new BIOS.

treefortkid
06-23-2006, 03:44 AM
yes I updated the bios to the latest release on the ECS website this morning. The thing im really trying to figure out is how to change the PCIE clock independant of the CPU clock. Do any of you know if that is possible with systool?