Overclocking E8200, advice please

sanofi said:
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.
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In theory it's no different to use the BIOS or the software, as they both offer most of the same options, but in the BIOS the overclock stays put, and you have to total control over what is going on, as you can adjust all the options.

If you crash the system in Easytune, you could possibly take out the whole Windows install, whereas with a BIOS overclock, that's much less likely as the system tends just to be unstable if it starts at all.

BIOS all the way.
 
I've switched to using the BIOS, how far can you go just increasing the FSB before you need to adjust the RAM speeds?
 
Depends on your memory speed really, what fsb are you on at the moment? And what speed is your memory rated at?

Naud
 
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.
 
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sanofi, u got the same cpu, mobo and ram that i got for my niece and nephew. i left their pc at stock as they dont need the performace. would be interesting to know what clock speed you are getting.

ctrl and f1 in bios gives u the advance options if i remember correctly
 
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?
 
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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 :)
 
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 :)
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I assume the 2.0V is the RAM voltage?
 
I'm at 390FSB atm and the FSB:DRAM ration is 5:6 still. Do I keep it like this or should I change it to 1:1?
 
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