Help ! - Why do I always have bad luck with overclocking !?

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I've now bought a E2160 some weeks ago because of how easy they were to overclock are reach 3Ghz, not my case, it cant even reach 2Ghz !

I have given it 1.45v and put it on 225FSB and it still refuses to boot, tried all the voltages in between as well,

if I leave the FSB alone on 200, and just change the vcore, then it boots, but the temperature is high, about 43 idle.

I just done a heatsink reseat, and still not good enough, if not worse.

Its been the same when I had my other system with a E6300 with a P5N-E, it never went past 2.5Ghz, just temperature got too high !

I dont know what to do anymore, i specially bought this CPU to overclock it, im ready to give up overclocking all together and in future, just buy a damn cpu that does 3Ghz stock !

Sorry for the rant, but I dont know what to do anymore...

Hopefully you guys can shed some light, I aint excellent at this stuff, and might be missing something all this time.
 
to start with dont up the cpu volatge. most will get so far on fsb increase alone. when that becomes unstable then starrt playing with the voltage.

also dont forget as you increase the fsb of your cpu you effect the fsb of your ram also soo it may be the overclock is overclocking the ram and its thr ram failing you. to get round that adjust th fsb:dram ratio and also check what voltage the ram requires by the manufacturer as most mobos default lower then recommened
 
Should the fsb:dram be adjust up ? I woudnt know what to do here, or what to look for, but I will look for fsb:dram and see.

I cant boot on 225FSB, only before that.
 
fsb:dram will be the Memory Multiplier option. x2.0 will be the 1:1 setting, tho I don't know if x2.0 was available on that board.

Have you set the correct memory voltage? And are you running 2x2gb or 4x1gb?
 
Cob said:
fsb:dram will be the Memory Multiplier option. x2.0 will be the 1:1 setting, tho I don't know if x2.0 was available on that board.

Have you set the correct memory voltage? And are you running 2x2gb or 4x1gb?
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Ahh Ok.

Im running 4 x 1gb
 
Cob said:
Be sure to set your MCH voltage to +0.1v to boost it for running 4 sticks.
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Right, I done that.

I can't find the ratio option, unless its under a different option named differently, there is a lot of RAM options, a lot of timing and lateny options, many variations...

I also noticed in the bios, like it has been said in here, when I increase the FSB for the CPU, the FSB of the RAM changes, think its currently 840 or 860.

I have pushed it to 210FSB x 9 = 1890MHz.

I've noticed in core temp, that the CPU is clocking down to 1260MHz, and is affecting the temps im trying to monitor...

Right, so what else do I go onto change now...

Do I just continue to up the FSB for the CPU, mind I have found the DRAM ratio yet...

:confused:

EDIT: Been back in and noticed the DRAM overvoltage control, I chose the +0.1v option. Am I right in thinking, that my ram is now running on 1.9v, because on default the motherboard is giving 1.8v to the ram ? I also took a read at the reviews for my ram, and people are running it up to about 2.0v. correct ?

I also noticed the system ram multiplier, has that go anything to do with the dram ratio ?
 
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If your memory is hitting 840 then that means that you're on the x4.0 memory multiplier. You'll have to locate the System Memory Multiplier option and set it as low as possible (try to find x2.0, but you may have to select x2.4 or x2.5).

You will get nowhere til you have dropped the memory multiplier.
 
Cob said:
If your memory is hitting 840 then that means that you're on the x4.0 memory multiplier. You'll have to locate the System Memory Multiplier option and set it as low as possible (try to find x2.0, but you may have to select x2.4 or x2.5).

You will get nowhere til you have dropped the memory multiplier.
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Thanks for the help here m8, I feel like im beginning to get somewhere, right while I posted my edit up there ^ and then reading your reply, you said about the system memory multiplier, i went in the bios again and looked for 2.0 or 2.5, not there, only 3.33 and 4.0. seeing as you said set it as low as possible, I chose 3.33. the FSB for the ram then went down to 716 irrc.
 
That's a decent start. But x3.33 sounds very high for the lowest setting. Did you press Enter on the option and go up and down the menu? There should be options both above and below the Auto option in the menu.
 
Cob said:
That's a decent start. But x3.33 sounds very high for the lowest setting. Did you press Enter on the option and go up and down the menu? There should be options both above and below the Auto option in the menu.
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Nope, 3.33 is the lowest there... I even went in again to check above and below the auto setting like you said... I was thinking, maybe there are more options with a bios update ? I wouldnt know..
 
Are you running a recent BIOS version?

Because you'll still not get far at x3.33.
 
I would certainly look at updating it. There may well be more options in a newer one.
 
Cob said:
I would say to go for F7.

What version are you currently running?
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Think I had F2 on it, I have now updated to F7 painlessly, and now as we said there are more options !, there is now the option for 2.66 in the system memory multiplier ! Woo ! There many well be more options in the later bios versions..., but will rather wait till they out of beta.

Next steps ?
 
Select 2.66 and start upping the FSB.

Remember to set the MCH voltage to +0.1v for the 4 sticks again.
 
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