Cant get stable Overclock with Q8300

drumdogg · 25 Nov 2010 at 14:46

I have been trying to overclock my Q8300. I have got it to around 2.79 stable by setting the FSB to 370 and upping the voltage a little but any futher and its not stable when i run prime95.

I tryed setting the DRAM Freq to DDR2 - 761 as it stated this was the speed of it through the BIOS.

Because my RAM is mixed is this not allowing me to overclock further?? I have 2x2G paired and 2x1G which are different makes.

Not sure what the PCIE Freq, FSB strap to NB etc does.

Any Suggestions???

drumdogg · 26 Nov 2010 at 08:56

Hey, so took out the odd stick of RAM and I can clock it further now. But I cant see where I can set the multiplier myself. It seems to be locked at around 7.5.

drumdogg · 26 Nov 2010 at 09:11

The ram is only PC-5300 333MHz (so it says with CPU-z) and just using stock cooler but on the look out for a new one.

drumdogg · 26 Nov 2010 at 09:39

Yea had thought about upgrading the RAM. But still not sure how to change the multiplier. Can't see it in the BIOS.

drumdogg · 26 Nov 2010 at 11:32

I thought the multiplier was set by the motherboard and not with the CPU. Would there be much of a performance difference if i changed from 5G PC- 5300 to 4G PC-8500???

drumdogg · 26 Nov 2010 at 11:49

Yea i plan to get a half decent CPU cooler and update the RAM probably.

Would like to get it to around 3.2 for a start. Im going to possibly get a GTX 470 in there as well in the next month or so as i would like to start playing games and dont want the system to bottleneck.

So with Q8300 @3.2(possibly)
GTX 470
4G PC-8500
what would that be like for a gaming system?

Thanks for the advice.