Need small overclocking guide

[Oddeye]

I've read the tutorials and am aware of how to overclock and the general "safe" numbers but I still lack the confidence to do this without someone more experienced than me telling me what to do, so help is greatly appreciated.

Basically I'm using pcsx2 (a PS2 emulator) and emulation is near perfect, save for a few random slowdowns/lag spikes and I've narrowed the cause down to my CPU. So I downloaded TurboV (Mobo: ASUS P6X58D-E) and overclocked my PC through that to 3.2GHZ @ 1.25v and the lag/slowdowns completely disappeared, only problem then is when I hit the undo button my computer locked up, my date was set back four years and my icons disappeared (fixed itself upon another restart).

So basically can anyone just give me a safe guide to getting 3.2-3.4ghz overclock out of my system please?

CPU: I7-930 D0 @ 2.8GHZ
RAM: Corsair Xms3 6gb ddr3 1600mhz (Tri-channel)
MOBO: ASUS P6X58D-E
GFX: Radeon HD 5770
Cooler: Corsair H50

My temps @ 2.8ghz/1.24v are 32-35s idle and 55-60s after several hours under 100% load (my computer also has a lot of dust so there's room to get lower temps yet)

Now my end goal is just to get my computer to have a stable 3.2-3.4ghz overclock without any issues/danger, from the information given can anyone guide me to doing this through the BIOS please?

Help is greatly appreciated. Thank you for reading.

 

[Oddeye]

If the 3.2 TurboV mode gets you the job you need, however it locks down from time to time, I would just go into the bios with those settings up the voltage a little.

You should get those settings no problem stable with a little more volts!

It was running stable but when I changed the settings back to default with TurboV after OCing it that's when my system locked up, weird huh?

My main worry is when you overclock the CPU doesn't it mess with your RAM which is what can also cause a lot of problems? How do I stabilize my RAM with my CPU overclock?

I mean if all I had to change was the CPU BLCK and voltage this wouldn't be an issue but isn't there other voltages you have to change along with RAM timings?

So I guess the real question is, if I increase my CPU to 3.2-3.4ghz and the voltage accordingly, what then should I do with my ram?

 

[Oddeye]

When you overclock with the fsb it effects the ram (i.e if you increase the bus from say 100 x 35 (multiplier) - so 3.5 ghz it wont effect your ram, but if you increase the bus - so 105 x 35 (multiplier) it would leave you at 3.675 ghz and in this instance it would also impact your ram (so instead of say 1600mhz it might go to 1645mhz etc) and this is where the instability might arise , Your always safer of to overclock by using the multiplier (x35/36/37 etc) as it wont really effect anything else such as your ram etc

Ahhh, the problem is you can't increase the multiplier on i7-930s I believe. Ugh. That would have been perfect, too.

What RAM speed/voltage/timings do you think I'd be looking at to get it stable at a 3.4ghz overclock? So from 2.8ghz to 3.4ghz (.6ghz increase 134 increased to 161)?