Overclocking Help

Slynet

Slynet

Slynet

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Hey all. I want to overclock my CPU, I had no past experience in doing so. I have a E6550 and MSI Neo-2 mobo. I'm using air cooling, the air circulation is very cool inside my case.

Could anyone tell me how much I can expect to overclock it and how to actually do it?

Cheers.
 
Which MSI board, the P31 or P35, I have got the P31 in my spare pc and have great difficulty in overclocking the thing.
 
Im not usually one to tell people to search, but having just started at this myself, i find theres no other way to get all the information you require. Ive looked through hundreds of posts in the last month to get a good feel of what my components are capable of, flaws that need to be seen to etc etc... not to say ive not asked the odd daft question or two, but think the search function is an invaluable tool which shouldnt be dismissed.
 
firstly read this: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17612922

Then get into your BIOS and start having a play about, if you then have questions feel free to ask :)

Overclocking is pretty simple once you have an understanding.. which is hard to get without a bit of trial and error and just playing around..

In short..

go into the BIOS disable CIE/Speedstep

go and download coretemp/speedfan, Prime95/Orthos

Load up core temp and check what it says your VID is

go into your BIOS and set your CPUs vcore or CPU voltage to the VID that coretemp gave you..

then start to raise the FSB in small amounts 5/10mhz @ a time
make sure that your memory doesnt run faster than its rated at (probably 800mhz)
everytime you raise the FSB go into window.. load up coretemp and then run orthos or prime95 using the small ffts test.. let that run for 30 mins.. make sure your temps are not going above 65/70c if it passes then go back and raise your FSB some more... you will probably find you can get a few more mhz without even touching the voltage on your CPU
 
I couldn't find a CIE/Speedstep feature to disable in BIOS. I couldn't edit the vcore, it wouldn't allow me. It was set on 1.300 by default, the VID in CPU-z was 1.350.

Maybe I overlooked that feature, but I really couldn't find it. =\
 
Ok, I get the general idea now of what to do, im fairly confendent now.

But what exactly is CIE/Speedstep, what does it do?

I just need to find out how to change my CPU Voltage, because at the moment it won't let me. =\

And is 65/70 the max tempertaure most people allow it to get to on full load? Or is that just the beginning of safe?

Edit: One more thing, isit always best to set the CPU Multiplier to the highest it can go to?
 
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Oh right, I didn't know speedstep was also know as EIST. So, found that and it's disabled. I still don't know how I can change my cpu voltage, it just won't allow me to. =\

Is there an option/feature I have to disable to let me change it?
 
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Not sure; why don't you try overclocking without changing it first? It may be that you don't need to to get a reasonable clock!
 
We'll I've got it to 2611.51 MHz stable, 65c on load.

Think I'll push it a bit more to 70c stable and call it a day. :D

So apart from increasing the FSB, what other variables will help me achive a higher clock?
 
Ok, well stable @ 2.94GHz, I'd really like to push it to 3 and call it a day. :D

I goes fine for 15 minutes in prime @ 3.00 GHz, temps are both 68c. Then it shuts off. Would it do any good increasing the CPU Voltage, or best to just call it a day? Although I can't edit my CPU voltage, I'd need to find out how it make it allow me if needed.
 
if you haven't edited the voltage, then yeah you need to find out how to unlock it

google might be a big help on this one ;)

gl
 
Well, I uped the cpu voltage a bit. I goes for about 20minutes in prime, then everything just locks up. I don't know if theres anything I can change to keep it stable at 3.00 GHz.

The temps were about 66-68 after 20 minutes in prime, so it shouldn't lock up due to the temps right?
 
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