Overclocking E8200, advice please

sanofi · 29 Mar 2008 at 02:30

Whats the best way to overclock this cpu? Via BIOS or some utility within windows?

sanofi · 29 Mar 2008 at 20:10

jbloggs said:
Definitely from within the BIOS...

Ok, so its not good to use something like easytune5 to do it? Does this damage the chip in some way? Or is it more stable via BIOS? I'm using the Gigabyte P31-DS3L.

sanofi · 30 Mar 2008 at 17:16

I've switched to using the BIOS, how far can you go just increasing the FSB before you need to adjust the RAM speeds?

sanofi · 30 Mar 2008 at 17:52

I haven't pushed it very hard yet, stock FSB is 333MHz and I've only increased it to 350.

My ram is OCZ 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 XTC Series DDR2.

Edit: I just pushed the FSB up to 360Mhz on stock voltage and the machine wouldn't boot and would self disable the overclock.

sanofi · 31 Mar 2008 at 14:55

Any advice on how I can get it higher?

sanofi · 31 Mar 2008 at 15:31

naudiz said:
You might need to add more vcore??

Naud

It's at 1.184 atm, how much should I add?

sanofi · 31 Mar 2008 at 17:51

Ok, I upped the vcore to 1.17V from the stock 1.15V and was able to get the FSB to 355Mhz.

Running Orthos atm. However, according to cpuz, the vcore is only at 1.104V.

Edit: Just upped FSB to 360Mhz and increased the DDR2 voltage by +0.2V to 1.8V. Boots into windows. Also upped the vcore to 1.17V in the BIOS but it reads as 1.136V in cpuz, is this normal?

sanofi · 31 Mar 2008 at 23:33

EddScott said:
Not sure on the voltage readings, but I've got an E8200 and 4GD gold OCZ which I assume is pretty similar.

Got mine on 425X8 - 3.4Ghz. Only upped the voltage to 2.0v. No other changes.

Clock well

I assume the 2.0V is the RAM voltage?

sanofi · 2 Apr 2008 at 00:24

Got it up to 3Ghz now @1.136V, and it seems stable after a while running Orthos.

sanofi · 6 Apr 2008 at 01:51

I'm at 390FSB atm and the FSB

RAM ration is 5:6 still. Do I keep it like this or should I change it to 1:1?