Soldato
Many moons ago I used to spend a lot of time overclocking PC's. I once even got to position 2 on the Orb with a Vapochill and TEC/Watercooled GPU with a portable airconditioner cooled chassis.
But as said that was a long time ago back in the days of GF3's and now i'm a bit at a loss as to where to start.
I have just purchased a E4300(my first intel since 486 days ) and a nice shiny P5N-E SLI with a 320Mb GTS and a couple of gig of geil 6400.
Is there any specific guides out there that cover the P5N-E (I tried looking in the thread but there seems to be a lot of folks taking about stuff they don't have and I got a bit confused )
What also confused me is memory. Never had any DDR2 before and back in the good old days you just adjusted FSB and CPU with mem being directly linked.
Now I see DDR2 is Quad pumped but what I don't understand is why the FSB of some chips is 1066 and the Ram supported is only 800. What also confuses me is people saying for high multiplier chips like 6300+ you need fast mem(if so what is the unlinked option for?)
I also see people talking about needing a FSB of 400 - 450 + but if this is quad pumped are they saying the ram is only running at 100mhz? or are they using double rate terminology and saying 200-225?
Anyways I tried unlinking my ram on my new shiny mobo and upping the FSB a bit but even at 850 it wouldn't boot into windows. Hence why asking for help.
But as said that was a long time ago back in the days of GF3's and now i'm a bit at a loss as to where to start.
I have just purchased a E4300(my first intel since 486 days ) and a nice shiny P5N-E SLI with a 320Mb GTS and a couple of gig of geil 6400.
Is there any specific guides out there that cover the P5N-E (I tried looking in the thread but there seems to be a lot of folks taking about stuff they don't have and I got a bit confused )
What also confused me is memory. Never had any DDR2 before and back in the good old days you just adjusted FSB and CPU with mem being directly linked.
Now I see DDR2 is Quad pumped but what I don't understand is why the FSB of some chips is 1066 and the Ram supported is only 800. What also confuses me is people saying for high multiplier chips like 6300+ you need fast mem(if so what is the unlinked option for?)
I also see people talking about needing a FSB of 400 - 450 + but if this is quad pumped are they saying the ram is only running at 100mhz? or are they using double rate terminology and saying 200-225?
Anyways I tried unlinking my ram on my new shiny mobo and upping the FSB a bit but even at 850 it wouldn't boot into windows. Hence why asking for help.