• I thinking of overclock and need a bit help
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So i want to overclock my Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 cpu but i need help. I want to know what program i should use and what i should do so i'm not doing anything wrong. Thanks for the help i hope.
the BIOS and some kind of guide :eng101:
BIOS Raise FSB by about 10 or so until like 3.4 or so if you have a good heat sink. I dropped volts on mine to cool it down dramatically
Download HWmonitor and see your current temperatures under load and when the computer idles. Do NOT overclock by software, you gotta do it in the BIOS if you want the best results.
FSB Terminator Voltage? Changed to 1.90 now, was on auto any more? this is the first time i'm doing this.
[QUOTE=ica|kvantum;19009938]FSB Terminator Voltage? Changed to 1.90 now, was on auto any more? this is the first time i'm doing this.[/QUOTE] Your volts are at 1.90? I'm at 1.14 @ 3.48GHz
1.90 and 3.00GHz
[QUOTE=ica|kvantum;19009981]1.90 and 3.00GHz[/QUOTE] What are you temps? When I was running 3GHz I had mine at around 1.10 -1.11. 1.90 seems a bit high if I'm not mistaken
before overclock [URL=http://img213.imageshack.us/i/fasfasfasfad.jpg/][IMG]http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/6500/fasfasfasfad.jpg[/IMG][/URL] On laptop now and bios on my big one this is IN game (tf2)
You can always try to lower voltages to lower those temperatures. Some might disagree with lowering volts but it takes significant amounts of heat off (it did for me at least). I'm assuming you have an aftermarket cooler as well. Try dropping volts if you want by small increments, I never go over 38C in games and idle at 33-36C
so i put FSB around 1.70 or lower?
test. Drop it little by little. Patience grasshopper. [editline]06:07PM[/editline] Patience or a new CPU/Mobo :v:
[QUOTE=ica|kvantum;19010197]so i put FSB around 1.70 or lower?[/QUOTE] I don't think your volts are 1.90 since your HWMonitor says 1.25. There would be a section that says system voltages or something like that and there is a CPU sub tab I think. You can probably lower it to like 1.22 or lower and check temps, go in game and see if it doesn't crash or anything. When I was running volts a little low for my ghz my COD4 would crash randomly so it was a sign to raise it a little. Your default FSB is 1333 under system clocks or something similar.
[QUOTE=Tippmann357;19010253]I don't think your volts are 1.90 since your HWMonitor says 1.25. There would be a section that says system voltages or something like that and there is a CPU sub tab I think. You can probably lower it to like 1.22 or lower and check temps, go in game and see if it doesn't crash or anything. When I was running volts a little low for my ghz my COD4 would crash randomly so it was a sign to raise it a little. Your default FSB is 1333 under system clocks or something similar.[/QUOTE] That was an "old" screenshot. That was when it NOT was overclock
I thought you aren't overclocked yet?
you should keep raise the FSB by 25-50 every time, and run super pi or some other benchmark. when it completes it without errors or BSODs you can safetly increase the FSB some more. If you want to get higher FSBs you must increase the voltages of your CPU but it increases warmth production too.
OK. i did set it on 1.60 and now windows wont start? I had to do a startup repair...hope it will work later. [editline]05:47PM[/editline] And now my keyboard wont work! what the hell! [editline]05:59PM[/editline] Please any idea whats wrong? i have chaned it back to auto with my old keyboard but my new one does not work! [editline]06:01PM[/editline] Got it work now. Daim i was scarred. I skip this overclock thing for a while
:wtc:, 1.90V fsb termination voltage? Lower that NOW. It's supposed to be 1.2V: [url]http://download.intel.com/design/processor/datashts/318732.pdf[/url] Voltage specifications are in section 2.6.2. Edit: disregard that, it's supposed to be 1.1 on 45nm core 2 duos Keep the fsb termination voltage down to 1.1 and don't raise it unless necessary. I don't recommend playing around with it. Also set the cpu vcore to something that's inside official specifications and see how far you can oc with that.
[QUOTE=Blackwater;19009932]Download HWmonitor and see your current temperatures under load and when the computer idles. [B]Do NOT overclock by software, you gotta do it in the BIOS if you want the best results.[/B][/QUOTE] Why is this? Never had problems with intel desktop control center. Answer instead of rating me dumb please.
[QUOTE=ica|kvantum;19009938]FSB Terminator Voltage? Changed to 1.90 now, was on auto any more? this is the first time i'm doing this.[/QUOTE] FSB termination voltage @ 1.9? god damn, that can destroy your chip, the maximum for that chip is 1.45 Vcc = Vcore VTT = FSB termination Tcase = IHS temp iirc Tstorage = processor storage temperature [media][URL=http://filesmelt.com/][IMG]http://filesmelt.com/downloader/Capture75.JPG[/IMG][/URL][/media]
[QUOTE=whatnow V2;19011387]FSB termination voltage @ 1.9? god damn, that can destroy your chip, the maximum for that chip is 1.45[/QUOTE] Yeah, op you really should read a bit into this stuff so you don't make any dumb things like this. Hope you haven't fried your cpu yet. Don't raise voltages higher than official specs permit if you don't know what you're doing.
[QUOTE=pebkac;19011173]:wtc:, 1.90V fsb termination voltage? Lower that NOW. It's supposed to be 1.2V: [url]http://download.intel.com/design/processor/datashts/318732.pdf[/url] Voltage specifications are in section 2.6.2. Edit: disregard that, it's supposed to be 1.1 on 45nm core 2 duos Keep the fsb termination voltage down to 1.1 and don't raise it unless necessary. I don't recommend playing around with it. Also set the cpu vcore to something that's inside official specifications and see how far you can oc with that.[/QUOTE] Holy dicknipples do this fast. a voltage of 1.9 is dramatically high. :derp:
Keep the vCore on auto, please. Just keep raising your FSB [b]slowly[/b] until the computer starts to freeze/bluescreen/crash when you run it on 100% load. And if it does, lower it a bit again. And keep the temperatures on load under 65°C.
[QUOTE=xyx;19011726]Keep the vCore on auto, please.[/QUOTE] No, if you keep it on auto the voltage will rise when you increase the fsb(well, at least it did on my motherboard), and you don't want it getting too high.
[QUOTE=xyx;19011726]Keep the vCore on auto, please. Just keep raising your FSB [b]slowly[/b] until the computer starts to freeze/bluescreen/crash when you run it on 100% load. And if it does, lower it a bit again. And keep the temperatures on load under 65°C.[/QUOTE] Let me guess, you have RAM FSB linked too
[QUOTE=xyx;19011726]Keep the vCore on auto, please. Just keep raising your FSB [b]slowly[/b] until the computer starts to freeze/bluescreen/crash when you run it on 100% load. And if it does, lower it a bit again. And keep the temperatures on load under 65°C.[/QUOTE] the motherboard always raises your vcore higher than it needs. too much vcore is bad for your processor, and sometimes causes instability. and, I think raising FSB higher (incrementally) is a waste of time. Set the FSB to 445 and multi to 9, Vcore to 1.35, keep the ram near stock and run stress test such as prime95. LinX or intel burn test are both good stress testing programs, they can find out if your OC is stable or not faster than prime95, but they're not as good as prime95 if you want to find out if your OC is really "stable. You can be 50 runs of linx stable, but you could fail prime95 on the first hour. edit: gave everybody a funny, cause this is a funny thread HAAHHAahahahahahahh :downs:
1.9 volts would blow your processor
Some motherboards don't support overclocking RAM and CPU separately, so when you overclock the CPU, it also changes the RAM's clocks. Keep that in mind.
intel chipsets require you to overclock/underclock the ram, NVIDIA chipsets don't. (ye)
Ah, that makes sense.
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