1st time o/c

[taco]

i thought it was about time i started to see what my processor could do.

ive currently managed to go from 2.3ghz to 2.8ghz with no problems so far, and a top temperature on prime of 54°.

specs are:
core 2 duo E6550 with cooler master gemini w/o fans
Gigabyte G31M-2SL m/b
3Gb PC6400 Ram
XFX geforce 9800 GTX

here's a screenie of cpu-z & temp: http://i32.tinypic.com/ilghfp.png...

i've been increasing the fsb by 10mhz at a time, with my ram set to 1:1

how far could this processor go, and should i try and o/c my ram timings too?

edit:also, ive just noticed, my memory has went from 5-5-5-15, to 6-6-6-19.

is this good or bad or do i need to adjust this too?

thanks

 

[ukxenon]

i wish i could help but i am still new to this myself.

the info i got was get the following programs

core temp
cupz
prime95
memtest

After increasing Vcore to 1.41 v, the author of experiment was able to overclock the processor core 2 Duo e6550 (2.33 GHz) to 3.85 GHz. The frequency of system system bus in this case was increased to 550 MHz, Multiplier was set to the maximum value 7x.

 

[bifday2k]

To get these to highish overclocks require very high front side buses due to there low multi.

And would also require that u increase the core voltage some too, and as you would need to run 1;1 on ur memory it would be best to use 1066mhz ram so that ur not over stressing your ram..

I used to do a lot of SuperPi stuff on an old forum and this is the fastest i ran mine at, as it was a tempory cpu at the time.

500 x 7 3.5ghz (stock voltage, not orthos stable but pi stable) mem 5,6,6,19 (1:1) time 15.016

As u can see the fsb is 500, memory was running at 1000mhz (200mhz over stock) so the timmings where really loose. It was on stock voltage, as i did'nt need it 100% stable at the time.

For day to day use i had it clocked at 450 x 7 = 3150mhz, with memory @ 900 mhz 4,4,4,12, timings..

Im not to sure how high a fsb ur mobo can handle, and to keep memory timings tighter the higher u go you would need to add more volts to them, the memory i used had 2.1volts.

So the 2 main factors will be can your mobo handle high fsb, and your memory can they run faster then stock.