Ive been told by many people that my CPU is very oc friendly, and that it can be pushed to 3.6ghz on stock and will be stable, is this true? Being new to OCing and having not done it before what advice or guidance could any of you pro's give me? It would save me a lot of money as i was going to upgrade to a quad core, Thanks.
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Oc My intel E8400 3ghz
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Increase fsb until unstable, then increase vcore until stable. Repeat until vcore goes over 1.35V or temperatures go over 70. Then stop.
It's a shame that you're not inclined to research this yourself, but the above will probably get you to 3.6ish.
It's a shame that you're not inclined to research this yourself, but the above will probably get you to 3.6ish.
It is correct most E8400's will overclock well, but all depends on what motherboard it is in.
Very simple set up is this (note this is not tweaked or anything special it will just get u the speed u want, but not the best vcore):
FSB @ 400
FSB to memory divider @ 1:1 if using 800mhz memory, if using faster memory, just make sure the divider used, dos'nt push the memory over stock speeds for now.
Save then exit the bios and reboot, see if it will boot up, and load windows, if not restart and go back into the bios, and up the vcore by 1 notch, and repeat until it boots up properly.
Then when u are in windows, make sure to run Prime95 (small fft test), or Intel burn test (standard test). Prime you will have to let run for quite some time, so if you use intel burn test, set it to run 20 times, if it passes on standard, then cpu is stable.
Prime blend and ibt max setting, will test everything, so after u get cpu stable, run the one of them, and see if memory and chipset is fine.
Once you have a stable overclock we can then talk about getting vcore lower.
Very simple set up is this (note this is not tweaked or anything special it will just get u the speed u want, but not the best vcore):
FSB @ 400
FSB to memory divider @ 1:1 if using 800mhz memory, if using faster memory, just make sure the divider used, dos'nt push the memory over stock speeds for now.
Save then exit the bios and reboot, see if it will boot up, and load windows, if not restart and go back into the bios, and up the vcore by 1 notch, and repeat until it boots up properly.
Then when u are in windows, make sure to run Prime95 (small fft test), or Intel burn test (standard test). Prime you will have to let run for quite some time, so if you use intel burn test, set it to run 20 times, if it passes on standard, then cpu is stable.
Prime blend and ibt max setting, will test everything, so after u get cpu stable, run the one of them, and see if memory and chipset is fine.
Once you have a stable overclock we can then talk about getting vcore lower.
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Any half decent mobo will allow you simply bump the FSB to 400Mhz. Most peoples E8400's will do 3.6Ghz with a FSB raise only. Mine sits at 3.8Ghz all day with everything on auto.
The trick is not having to use auto though, mine sits at 3.6ghz @ 1.12v all my volts are tweaked to there lowest so my system runs a lot cooler. If i used auto for everything my vcore would be stupidly high for that overclock.
But each to there own, i personally prefer lower voltages then my mobo gives on auto, some are not bothered.
But each to there own, i personally prefer lower voltages then my mobo gives on auto, some are not bothered.