Overclocking - keeping an eye on northbridge

KelDG

KelDG

KelDG

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OK, I have been running my e5200-2.5Ghz at 3.3Ghz for a couple of years now running on a vcore of 1.22v but it is starting to struggle. (Max temps 51)

I have clocked it up to 3.6Ghz now but it needs 1.3v (shows at 1.28 in CPU-Z) to be stable (Max temps 55)

I am quite happy with this but would like to take it to 3.8 if i can, I can easily watch the CPU temp, but am worried that I cannot keep an eye on my northbridge temp (which I read right or wrong will go up when increasing bus frequency). The board is a P43-E3G Gigabyte and has a 1333 rated fsb (1600 o/c aparantly). I was running it at 266*12.5 am currently running it at 300*12 (1200mhz fsb). Will I have to be wary of cranking it up any higher or am I reading into things too much considering the board is rated to do 1333?

Cheers
 
You might not be able to clock that high because you could be limited by your board.

You can run 1.4 v through that chip. But as its quite old and very cheap to replace i you could up them volts way more.

I wouldn't worry about the north bridge to much. Do you have a few fans in your case to help cool it
 
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lrlcr - Ill keep that in mind, dont want to fry it before I choose between Sandy and BD when released.

cjgardens - I had it running prime at 333*11.5 for a few mins so I know I can at least boot into windows with that setting, was just worried about the NB. I have a push pull going on there with a 120mm fan pulling in on front and a 120mm fan pushing out the back its a midi tower so not much room for any more fans on the back. Might pop a little heatsink on there just in case after lrlcr's comment.

Cheers both of you.
 
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