nForce 430 OC

[aezakmi]

Hey

I've been tinkering a bit with my NAS, replaced board and CPU from an Intel platform (DDR-333 C2D) to an AMD (DDR2-800 Sempron) after reinstalling Windows 7 on it and all of the drivers I found an overclocking utility while browsing the mobo CD and said, why not? I've decided to use the program to modify only the FSB frequency, voltages and multi are still managed by the BIOS setup to avoid any auto vcore spike

 

Since the CPU multi is locked I can only overclock the northbridge, a mighty nForce 430 with killer quality GeForce 6150 graphics (I remember playing with this, it was painful, and running at stock speeds)

Temps are my concern because I don't know how much is "too hot" for this NB, I've been running P95 and the AIDA64 test and the max temp for it was 75C, idle temp is 62-66C, google shows nothing about overclocking with this or similar boards

 

CPU is 2200MHz stock (200x11)

I went all the way up to 3025MHz (275x11) and this is where the temps started rising

 

vcore: 1.40v

NB: 1.35v

I can only increase or decrease by 0.5v

 

This is the board -> https://www.asrock.com/MB/NVIDIA/N61P-S/index.asp

Funny how they advertise a "123% CPU frequency increase and 205% FSB speed increase"