What am I doing wrong?

[oratel]

Guys I need help. I have been trying to oc my rig to get the 3dmark 2001 se score past 14000 and whenever I oc my scores get lower. I have tried playing with the fsb as high as 185/37 but it starts getting unstable. Multiplier set to 14 and vcore at 1.8

This is my rig

Barton 2800
Thermaltake Volcano 9
Asus A7V8X-X
512 mb Kingston DDR333
Sapphire 9500 Pro (oc 364.50 core 310 mem)
Antec True Blue 480
Antec Soho case with 8 fans

I am not able to lock the pci speed on this mobo. I know also that this stupid ram is slowing me down and like an idiot that I am I returned my 3200 ram because the motherboard states that it can't support it running a 333FSB cpu. Shoulda kept it. What settings do you guys think are the MAX safest on this rig and why is it that my 3DMark scores go down when I oc?

Thanks for the insight.
:D

[Graphic67]

With a Via chipset board, you are putting excess stress on the agp/pci bus when oveclocking the fsb like that and your graphics card communications are suffering. Try keeping the fsb closer to 166 and use the multiplier to increase core clock speed.

[c627627]

185 @ /5 divider is 12% over specs.
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you're lucky to have gotten there with PC2700 RAM meant to run at 166 FSB.

Max safest varies from opinion to opinion. Some say risking 10% over specs is OK, some a bit more.

Be sure to Prime95 Torture test your final overclock for at least 12 hours.