E8200 stock cooling, overclock?

NeTTy

NeTTy

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I havn't bothered venturing into overclocking for a very long time but I'm starting to get the urge to upgrade again and wondered if I might be able to stave of the urge by overclocking some.

I've read that the chip I have should be able to get to about 3.2ghz on the stock cooler is this something you guys would agree with? (I always remember using a stock cooler when overclocking was a big no no).

specs are:
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3
E8200 wolfdale Rev:c0 stepping:6
OCUK value ram 8500 ddr2 (yeah I guess that this will be the limiting factor ultimately)
saphire 4850
OCZ modstream psu think it's 550W or 600W cant recall atm.
 
NeTTy said:
I've read that the chip I have should be able to get to about 3.2ghz on the stock cooler is this something you guys would agree with?
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Yep should be fine. Ran mine at at 3.2 at stock volts with the stock cooler for quite a while.

Using a cheapy AC Freezer Pro 7 atm and getting something like 3.6GHz @ 1.2v. 35C idle / 51C load. There's a fair bit more i could get out of it but haven't had the time to play around recently, so left it there for the time being.

Similar setup to yours: P35-DS3R, OCZ 8500.
 
The vid range is 0.85V – 1.3625V, but you could always get one like mine with a high vid :) I'd chuck the stock cooler out the window though, spend the £19 on a freezer 7, it's easily the best sub £20 cooler, which is why it's out of stock, again :D
 
Cheers for the replies will have a read up and then give it a shot, dont really want to spend cash on coolers or the like atm as I think the RAM is going to limit it rather than heat anyway, when I do upgrade next I'll be looking at mb/ram/cpu so don't want to buy anything I can't reuse :P (yeah £20 isn't much but I'm a student so :( )

Last time I did this pretty much all there was too it was multiplier and fsb had a look in the bios and had a full page of options :o time to read read read :P
 
what RAM do you have? even 800mhz RAM will be fine upto 400fsb at 1:1, past that you will start overclocking the RAM too
 
I believe the stock of an e8200 is 8*333=2.6. 8*400=3.2 (2*400=800mhz) i.e. ram will run 1:1, just like and e8400 at 3.6. At least it would if he hadn't already said he was using 1066mhz :p

Speaking as a student, a sub £20 cooler that performs as well as it does, and fits six sockets really is worth it. If cash is tight wait and see what temps you're getting, but you may have to crank that stock cooler up to an annoying level.
 
Your right of course :)

I was mixing things up a lot! last time I overclocked memory frequency was always the same regardless of cpu frequency and I had it in my head as I increased cpu frequency the ram would also rise :confused:
(it will obviously but I just need to change the divider) :P

Think I have everything straight in my head now just need to work out what each of the voltage options in my bios relate too now and I'm good to go hopefully :P
 
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