yea thanks killa... we all have to start somewhere. i have been doing alot of research on it so hopefully im prepared enough. but i think i will stay away as the motherboard doesnt support oc in bios...
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killadoob
Honorary Master
Yea man for sure, just remember in future to avoid intel mobo's like the plague so you can try overclocking, man overclocking is fun as well. You get hooked and then buy water cooling so you can overclock more. It can be addictive though 
Kuga
Expert Member
I OC'd my old AMD 4600+ from 2.4Ghz to 2.85Ghz for around 3 years. I couldn't go further, otherwise it would become unstable, maxed out the voltage and what not, think it was a bad batch I got 
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I OC'd my new E7400 from 2.8Ghz to 3.6Ghz. In 3D Mark 06 I gained around 3000 points. But it was kind of unstable without adding extra voltage. So I took it back down to 3.5Ghz, seems to be stable now.
If you do decide to OC, get a program called OCCT, this stress tests your PC to see if it's stable. I also recommend getting CPU-Z and Core Temp.
Also remember when you OC, lock your PCI-E frequency to 100Mhz, and your ram must be set 1 step down. I.e. if you have a DDR 2 - 800 RAM, set it to 667 in your bios. When your increase your FSB, everything else goes up as well. So it's important to lock your PCI-E and to step down your RAM by 1. Too lazy to do the math for this
. But basically if you run CPU-Z, it will show your Memory in Mhz. If it goes too high your PC won't boot. So 1 step down + higher FSB will give around the same frequency as it was.
Also if you have an AMD system. You gotta set your HT multiplier 1 less. 5 x 200 (FSB) = 1000 Mhz which is the default. So you gotta stay around 1000Mhz. So if for example you OC to 250Mhz (FSB), then it would be 250 x 5 = 1250 which is too high, but 4 x 250 = 1000.
.I OC'd my new E7400 from 2.8Ghz to 3.6Ghz. In 3D Mark 06 I gained around 3000 points. But it was kind of unstable without adding extra voltage. So I took it back down to 3.5Ghz, seems to be stable now.
If you do decide to OC, get a program called OCCT, this stress tests your PC to see if it's stable. I also recommend getting CPU-Z and Core Temp.
Also remember when you OC, lock your PCI-E frequency to 100Mhz, and your ram must be set 1 step down. I.e. if you have a DDR 2 - 800 RAM, set it to 667 in your bios. When your increase your FSB, everything else goes up as well. So it's important to lock your PCI-E and to step down your RAM by 1. Too lazy to do the math for this
. But basically if you run CPU-Z, it will show your Memory in Mhz. If it goes too high your PC won't boot. So 1 step down + higher FSB will give around the same frequency as it was.Also if you have an AMD system. You gotta set your HT multiplier 1 less. 5 x 200 (FSB) = 1000 Mhz which is the default. So you gotta stay around 1000Mhz. So if for example you OC to 250Mhz (FSB), then it would be 250 x 5 = 1250 which is too high, but 4 x 250 = 1000.
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killadoob
Honorary Master
No kuga it was not a bad batch, those amd cpu's overclocked poorly.
I remember i had a 3800x2 and i could only get another 300mhz out of it, then i bought an e6300 and went from 1.86ghz to 3.22ghz stable, man that was best cpu ever for ocing.
I remember i had a 3800x2 and i could only get another 300mhz out of it, then i bought an e6300 and went from 1.86ghz to 3.22ghz stable, man that was best cpu ever for ocing.
chickenbeef
Executive Member
so close to a 100% oc, so close
i read that the e6300 and e6400 were very decent oc material. they pushed the e6400 from 2.13 to 3.0ghz on standard cooling! thats pretty impressive!!!keen to try it now ha ha ha. maybe throw in some liquid nitrogen! have very little space to work with in my box though. using a raidmax smiladon and barely got the 9800gtx in... very large card
ha ha ha. maybe throw in some liquid nitrogen! have very little space to work with in my box though. using a raidmax smiladon and barely got the 9800gtx in... very large card
cerebus
Honorary Master
Can I recommend another freebie download? I'm not sure if it works on non-Gigabyte motherboards but it's great: http://wareseeker.com/download/easy-tune-6.rar/201ff8cf2 Easytune 6.
it doesn't have to be locked at 100 specifically, it MUST be locked fullstop.
you don't have to underclock your ram all the time, you can oc ram as well.
you wont know what a 24/7 stable oc is unless you have pushed it further and then backed down to a comfortable level.
Kuga
Expert Member
I always just locked the PCI-E at 100Mhz because it's the default and there's no benefit from it going any higher than that.
Problem with higher ram frequencies it becomes unstable.. You should rather then play with the timings if you want to OC RAM. But ye, I hear you. My AMD system was OC'd to the max it could of gone whilst still being stable. Only done the CPU of my new system so far.
Then there's GFX Card OCing as well, but that's a whole other ball game. Thread is about CPU OCing so I'll leave it at that