First attempt at 2180 overclock

Cryfreeman

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well my old athlon had battled long enough so went about buying myself a cheap motherboard/cpu and mem upgrade :)

IP35-E
2180
Crucial Ballistix 5300 2gb

Havnt been in the overclocking game for a few years so overclocking these core 2's is all new to me.

So after a quick read on noob overclocking I thought sod it and chucked in 300fsb and 1:1 mem and left everythign else alone. Piff paff poof!

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not bad for 180 quid or so all in :)

Everything look ok guys? temps?
 
I would say those look very good, similar temps to my 6300 under full load @ 3.15.

Very nice for a first attempt.
 
Temps look fine in absolute terms, but could be cooler given the low voltage (stock cooler?). Although the fact you can run an hour of Orthos at that voltage/speed is promising. I would run orthos overnight and see if it is properly stable. To be honest I would be surprised if it was given the low voltage but I am sure you will be able to get 3.2-3.4 with more volts.
 
Well testing around 3200 now, kind of happy with that so having a play with ram speeds from my 5300 crucial.

Having to read up on some of these timings :o but so far :

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must say I am very happy and withcer runs a lot better now :D
 
rulocal said:
Temps look fine in absolute terms, but could be cooler given the low voltage (stock cooler?). Although the fact you can run an hour of Orthos at that voltage/speed is promising. I would run orthos overnight and see if it is properly stable. To be honest I would be surprised if it was given the low voltage but I am sure you will be able to get 3.2-3.4 with more volts.
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I kept Orthos going for 4hrs and was ok, ram was @ 1.8v to.

When I first tried clocking the ram it died @ 800 and I couldnt work out why untill I noticed the IP35 defaults to 1.8v :)
 
4 hours stable should be fine but you may want to try it overnight to be 100% sure. If you PC starts crashing/freezing/restarting in normal use just give it a little gas.
 
I wouldn't worry about going higher than that on the volts. Temperatures are the key. If you are on stock cooler then you may be limitied to 1.4ish. I have a Tuniq 120 cooler and run mine with 1.5v set in the bios and am stable at 3.4. Temps do hit the low 70s under full load but given this will never be the case in real life use, I am relaxed about it.

Hope this helps.
 
I see you have gone for a higher multiplier. I'm running 8 x 375. Would dropping the FSB and rasing the multi give a better clock? Currently have 1:1 FSB:DRAM and 5-5-5-15 for mem.
 
i'm running mine at 10x310 at the minute, which puts my ram slightly under stock speed, seems decent enough for me especially on stock cooling.
 
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