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My E8400 (4.05GHZ) needs 1.3v to be F@H stable.
It's been running 24/7 for 3 months now, so I guess it's stable :D

Boots into Windows & runs desktop with 1.2v no problem, & will run SuperPI 1M with 1.2v,
but a longer test shows up the odd error.

All this is on good old air cooling, using an XP-120 heatsink & 120mm YStech fan @ 1200rpm.
 
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I would not consider my system "stable" until it has passed 24h Prime, both blend and small FFT! Running games and normal generic apps is not stressful enough.

You gotta make it 24 Heures du Mans :D
 
Its not always 24hr's of Orthos that they need.

I can have my E6320 at 3.4Ghz and it will trot along happily gaming, encoding & folding but give it Orthos and it will fall over after 5 mins.
 
I had my E8400 running at 3.8 with 1.2v which I thought was stable. But it would keel over in about 5 mins when running orthos :p
 
I still need to majorly OC mine, I've had it running at 3105 mhz I think.. but It still seems like a rocket ship compared to my X2 4400 which was @ 2805 Mhz,

I can't seem to find a damn thing about Overclocking Core 2 Duo chips !!

Can someone please explain the following to me.

Back when I overclocked my SK939 chip, you would up the FSB which would then inturn raise the RAM speed and HTT speed, so you adjusted the multiplier on the HTT so it wouldn't top 1000 and dropped ram down or left it ( if you wanted to oc It )

with my C2D , I can't seem the find any reference to the HTT ? does it not exist ? :p

and I'm unsure how far my ram will go, its the 2GB Crucial PC2-6400 Cas 4 with the DHX aluminium heatsink things ,

Thanks in advance.. and OP.. lovely clock :D
 
TaKeN said:
I still need to majorly OC mine, I've had it running at 3105 mhz I think.. but It still seems like a rocket ship compared to my X2 4400 which was @ 2805 Mhz,

I can't seem to find a damn thing about Overclocking Core 2 Duo chips !!

Can someone please explain the following to me.

Back when I overclocked my SK939 chip, you would up the FSB which would then inturn raise the RAM speed and HTT speed, so you adjusted the multiplier on the HTT so it wouldn't top 1000 and dropped ram down or left it ( if you wanted to oc It )

with my C2D , I can't seem the find any reference to the HTT ? does it not exist ? :p

and I'm unsure how far my ram will go, its the 2GB Crucial PC2-6400 Cas 4 with the DHX aluminium heatsink things ,

Thanks in advance.. and OP.. lovely clock :D
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HTT is an AMD only thing, the Intel equivalent is the FSB which is quad pumped e.g. my E8200 runs @ 2.66GHz at stock (333MHz x 8) so the FSB is 1,333MHz (333MHz x4). From what I can tell so far, the overall FSB doesn't mean a great deal, you don't need to keep it under a certain speend like you did when overclocking AMD CPUs.
 
TaKeN said:
I still need to majorly OC mine, I've had it running at 3105 mhz I think.. but It still seems like a rocket ship compared to my X2 4400 which was @ 2805 Mhz,

I can't seem to find a damn thing about Overclocking Core 2 Duo chips !!

Can someone please explain the following to me.

Back when I overclocked my SK939 chip, you would up the FSB which would then inturn raise the RAM speed and HTT speed, so you adjusted the multiplier on the HTT so it wouldn't top 1000 and dropped ram down or left it ( if you wanted to oc It )

with my C2D , I can't seem the find any reference to the HTT ? does it not exist ? :p

and I'm unsure how far my ram will go, its the 2GB Crucial PC2-6400 Cas 4 with the DHX aluminium heatsink things ,

Thanks in advance.. and OP.. lovely clock :D
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I'm pretty sure there's a sticky about novice overclocking at the top of this forum.
 
El Jimben said:
HTT is an AMD only thing, the Intel equivalent is the FSB which is quad pumped e.g. my E8200 runs @ 2.66GHz at stock (333MHz x 8) so the FSB is 1,333MHz (333MHz x4). From what I can tell so far, the overall FSB doesn't mean a great deal, you don't need to keep it under a certain speend like you did when overclocking AMD CPUs.
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Ahh nice one thanks, I will keep clocking then and not worry about it :)

Munky1080 said:
I'm pretty sure there's a sticky about novice overclocking at the top of this forum.
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The cheek ! :eek:

I did have a read tbh.. most of it already knew and nothing in there was Intel specific IMO :confused:
 
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