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Just a quick question,
Will I be successfully overclocking if I simply just increase my CPU FSB? I didnt save the changes but I did it in BIOS just to see, and I could see the Adjusted CPU speed below it was also increasing.

All the other settings, voltages etc is on Auto so I assume they would increase/decrease as necessary automatically.

So is the above all I need to do?
I would ofcourse keep an eye on the cpu temperature
 
In CPUZ the numbers keep changing.
On Clocks Core speed it changes from 2005mhz to 3171mhz quite often, also the multiplyer changes from x6 to x9.5. Not sure why thi sis happening.

Same with the Voltage Core, that keeps changing too so I wouldnt know what to write down

Oh and I do have 800mhz ram :o
My specs are

MSI P43 Neo-F motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo E8500
4GB DDR2 6400+ 800mhz
Radeon 4870 1gb

Can I still deffinately not just increase the FSB in bios leaving all other settings on auto? :P That method would be sweet and prefered if it would work successfully, and not do any harm :] I dont want to OC it loads, this will be my first time. I just want a minor upgrade until I get a new pc for christmas, so a few hundred extra mhz would be fine :)
Any very easy ways in windows itself would be great. I have the MSI Dual Core application, is that good/safe?
 
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Yeah I do want you to know I have googled quite a lot about this I just cant seem to get the answers or advice that I need spefically for me

So im running Prime now and CPUZ is showing the core voltage at 1.280

Incase anything stands out and better safe than sorry, I took some screenies of CPUZ if you wouldnt mind checking :p

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Yes cooling ha :P
When I launched Prime then, I left it running for some time and after about 10 minutes I opened up MSI Dual Core and the CPU temp was 72c, and I havent overclocked yet. :P
I think I need a new CPU fan, do you recommend any? I recently bought a Zalman: https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-026-ZA but I had to send it back as it wouldnt even fit in my case heh, so I need a kinda small but good one if you know of any?
 
Well if you say stay below 400FSB, would 399 be okay or should it be much lower
Id be happy with whatever I could easily do and safely :p
 
Ty :]

So yeah I do
1. Get a proper cooler before attempting any of this!
2. Vcore to 1.28V
3. FSB to 370 MHz

Is there anything else I need to do, how do I go about doing what you said with the memory. Is it as simple as increasing the FSB or? :p
 
How exactly do you remove/unplug "Push Pins"? My current stock cooler on my e8500 has 4 push pins in each corner, I cant seem to remove them. Have tried googling, even watched some videos on youtube but cant find any for removing, only for installing
 
Hey. I kept coming back to add more, some of the previous stuff wasnt needed due to the newer text I wrote so ive cleaned it up for less spam.

Anyway Hi again :)
My CPU fan eventually came today, as I missed it on monday. Got it setup but I would have prefered the FANs position rotated 90degrees so that the air was blowing horizontally, instead of blowing vertically like it is at the moment. I did it wrong. And unfortunately I couldnt figure out how to pull it back out, it seemed like it was stuck in permanently lol.

The picture below should describe better how Ive got it positioned

This is how I did want it,
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Picture-1 >


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And this is how it is right now,
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Picture-2 >


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I have overclocked the CPU in bios from 333fsb to 389fsb, and I changed the CPU voltage to 1.31.
The CPU temp atm is 48oc, I ran prime just now and after a short while it seemed to stay around 65oc.

With the old cpu fan if you remember when running prime it went over 70oc and that was when it wasnt overclocked, so I would say this fan is better yeah.

The memory mhz has also increased by itself from 400mhz to 480mhz, Im not sure if that is good or bad. Is it ok?
Not sure if there is anything else I need to check on


Lastly about the position the fan is in. Have I gotten it wrong, and is Picture 2 the better option? Or is Picture 1 like I am guessing the better option?

That should be a lot less painful to read now hehe :P

Thanks
 
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