Future overclock predictions...

[Dharok]

Well. I'll be receiving my "goodies" on Monday which includes the following:

Gigabyte GA_P35C_DS3R (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 & DDR3 Motherboard
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 775)
With a C2D e6300. (x7 multiple)

Now. I was just thinking about the overclocking capabilities I can expect. I know I've not got the best case in the world for cooling but it stands it's ground most the time as currently I have a crappy AsRock DUAL-VSTA with stock cooling, standard 1gb 667MHz DDR2. Yet I still get a respectable 300FSB out of it (2.1GHz).

I was hoping to at least get a 2.8GHz overclock with my upgrade. In effect the FSB will be set to 400 (400x7=2.8GHz). And the memory, I'm not to sure about. This is what I've worked out thus far.

400/5 x 6 = 480MHz = 960MHz effective.

Obviously I'll have to run the divider at 5:6. Does this sound reasonable or do I run it at a lower divider. This is the first time I would have overclocked memory aswell, as I've never had to change the divider.

Thanks.

EDIT: Ignore my sig, that was what I was ordering before and was predicting. ( I was wrong )

 

[doctoe2260]

You shouldn't have too much trouble hitting 2.8, you could probably hit 3GHz if the Ram is up to it!

You could get the OcUK PC8500 memory. It's good up to 533Mhz on a 1:1 divider, and only costs £77! If your mobo can handle those frequencies you could potentially get very fast and won't have to overclock the ram.

 

[Dharok]

Hmm so if I hit 2.8GHz then I won't need to touch the RAM frequencies?