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I may be able to pick up an I3-540 for cheap which I'm thinking of building a rig just to play around with overclocking and experiencing the effects of changing different settings to gain an understanding.

From little research I think the boards I want to be going for are P55's? however I'm out of the loom with old gen intel so can anyone recommend one to look out for (I'm guessing it'll be second hand?).
 
Hmm, further research would seem it the p55 are them best boards for overclocking has anyone had any first hand experience and could recommend a board?
 
I am running an i5 760 on a h55 based gigabyte board.

Before i did have an i3 540 and the board was great for overclocking it.

So look for h55 boards too.
 
If you can find a new one still for sale it will be overpriced now and in my opinion not worth the money when you could get a Z77 board (1155) cheaper. You could take your chances on the bay but you are relying on the seller being honest about the board.

If this is to get a general idea about clocking then i would forget it. The newer Sandybridge and Ivybridge do it in a different way. Gone are the days of finding max fsb/bclk and clocking that way. It's all done with changing the multiplier and voltage now and then again only on k series cpu's.
 
Motherboards for this socket keep their value very well.

I have a h55m-ud2h that i bought new a few years ago for around £40.

Id prob get more than that for it now three years on!

That said the CPU you have will clock to 4ghz easily with a decent board and they are great fun.
 
the1gooner said:
I am running an i5 760 on a h55 based gigabyte board.

Before i did have an i3 540 and the board was great for overclocking it.

So look for h55 boards too.
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Thanks for the reply, will do i'm keeping an eye on the bay so will look out for some H55 boards too.

pastymuncher said:
If you can find a new one still for sale it will be overpriced now and in my opinion not worth the money when you could get a Z77 board (1155) cheaper. You could take your chances on the bay but you are relying on the seller being honest about the board.

If this is to get a general idea about clocking then i would forget it. The newer Sandybridge and Ivybridge do it in a different way. Gone are the days of finding max fsb/bclk and clocking that way. It's all done with changing the multiplier and voltage now and then again only on k series cpu's.
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pastymuncher - completely understand where you're coming from on that side, my fx-4100 I just upped the multi and dropped the voltage which I found easy. I'd go for a Z77 and I5 3570k if I had the funds :) Hopefully if all goes to plan im keeping the cost as low as possible.

This would be purely for fun and to learn what the different bus speeds, etc affect so educational for me too as I've never overclocked anything other than my current (and first) rig in specs.

Mrjobby said:
Motherboards for this socket keep their value very well.

I have a h55m-ud2h that i bought new a few years ago for around £40.

Id prob get more than that for it now three years on!

That said the CPU you have will clock to 4ghz easily with a decent board and they are great fun.
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Yes, I've noticed that even second hand they're pretty expensive haha!

That's what im looking to do just play around with it and learn a bit more even if the method of overclocking is somewhat unused now due to what pastymuncher mentioned about the unlocked chips and their multiplier.
 
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Mrjobby said:
Motherboards for this socket keep their value very well.

I have a h55m-ud2h that i bought new a few years ago for around £40.

Id prob get more than that for it now three years on!
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Exactly the board I am still running with an i5 760.

Have had lots of different motherboards across various platforms over the last 12 years or so and this one has been one of the best when factoring in what it cost.
 
the1gooner said:
Exactly the board I am still running with an i5 760.

Have had lots of different motherboards across various platforms over the last 12 years or so and this one has been one of the best when factoring in what it cost.
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Id pretty much agree.

Have had all sorts in mine, several i3's and a i5 750 and its taken them all to 4ghz+ while being ultra stable. Remarkable for a £40 board!

Has now been put out to pasture in a media server with a G6950 :)
 
If this is purely for a overclocking experiment the best platform i have ever overclocked on was Intel's 775. While it's getting long in the tooth now it is a excellent platform to learn how to "properly" overclock. The best result i had was with a Pentium Dual Core E2140 (1.6Ghz) that clocked to a whopping 3.6Ghz!! This was on what was probably the best ever value for money motherboard, the Gigabyte P31-DS3L. You should be able to pick up a cpu for less than a tenner and a board such as the P31-DS3L (P45 is best though) for less than £20.
 
Ahhh ok, nice one pastymuncher I'll keep an eye out on them too, looking for both P31 and P45 chipsets :) Thanks for the help guys. I'll let you know what I find.
 
Just remember that P31 and P45 are socket 775 and will not take that i3-540.


If you can't get the Gigabyte P31-DS3L, later EP31-DS3L, forget about P31 boards because the others are not up to much.
 
Just remembered that my parents have an old PC with a pentium I think. It's a dell so probably locked down bios isnt it though? :(
 
Hmmm good idea!. Haven't a clue which socket as it's up in the loft.....will get it down and take a look this weekend :)
 
Got an i3 530 2.93GHz to 3.8GHz with 1.225v on an Asus Maximus III Gene last night, picked the board up used on the MM for £55.

I was only limited to 3.8 because of temperatures while under prime95 though. It was seemingly fine at 4.2GHz with 1.3v as well, but the temps were too high.

I was using a cheapo Akasa cooler which was stock in a Packard Bell pre-build.

With a more capable cooler I recon that I could have pushed at least 4.4GHz.
 
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