advice for a newb please :)

Torm3ntor · 16 May 2009 at 09:05

Hi could do with some help please

it's the first time i have overclocked and was wondering if the volts and tempratures are ok or not ,

many thanks

ive left everything in the bios on auto and just changed the fsb and unlinked the ram, ive read that i should manually set the voltages myself because of over volting but im not sure on what volts i should put in

asus striker extreme
q660
4 gig corsair ddr2

cheer's

Pneumonic · 16 May 2009 at 09:37

vcore looks fine, you need to stress the CPU to get load temps rather than idle.. download prime95 and run a small FFTs test

Torm3ntor · 16 May 2009 at 10:06

thanks for reply

just ran prime 95 and did 11 tests for 14 mins with no errors or warning's the temp's were just touching 69 c would you say this to high :/ ?

thanks

baroniuk · 16 May 2009 at 10:13

Just got told on my E8600 68C on intel burn was good after 15 passes so room for more i reckon
good luck

Pneumonic · 16 May 2009 at 11:02

Torm3ntor said:
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What cooler do you have on that?

70-75c is the max you want to be hitting under Small FFTs, also make sure you have round off error checking enabled in prime (under the advanced menu).. you don't have much headroom for anything more on the overclock but if your happy at 3ghz then its good

Torm3ntor · 16 May 2009 at 11:21

ive got the Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro with Antec 900 Nine Hundred case ive just given it a good de dusting also lol idle temps are down to 27c will re run prime 95 see what i get

3 ghz is more than i was hoping for i would have been happy with 2.8ghz

thanks for the help