Overclocking using FSB instead of multiplier

timmothy

timmothy

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Hi 8pack, thought I would ask in here as I have had no luck researching it and no luck playing around myself.

I have always used the multiplier and fsb to overclock in the past. Most recently with my q6600 which I had running at 3.6.

I have recenly purchased a 3570k and Gigabyte z68ap-D3. Now unfortunately I am unable to update the bios so that I can overclock the Ivybridge via the multiplier. So I have tried doing it with the FSB, but as soon as I put it even a little bit up it crashes the PC on boot. I put the multiplier to 38x which is max for Ivybridge on my motherboard but it only seems to actually go to 36x.

So my question really is why will the motherboard not overclock via the FSB, I am only adding 7mhz to it and its crashing. I cant seem to get any info on it as everyone seems to just up the multiplier these days to overclock.

Hope you can help
 
Thanks for the responses.
As for the Bios, I have to update it in a different way as it has to be updated to the UEFI bios. This has to be done via a dos bootable USB which I have done although it says when I update it that the Bios file is wrong. I go it from the Gigabyte forums as my board does not have native support for the UEFI bios which is needed to unlock the multiplier on Ivybridge CPU's.

I have tried without success to overclock the BLK by even a tiny amount. How come FSB is no longer a big thing? Why have they lowered them, as I have had my old board up to 450mhz which is almost double what the new board is.

My memory is not the problem as it is the Samsung Green and that is stable at 2130mhz
 
Thanks 8 pack. I prefer the old method, i liked getting the calculator out to work out what clock I wanted. Now you just x by a hundred. Any ideas how to over clock in my situation?
 
From what I have read you cant update my boards bios via windows, all forums say that the only way to update to a UEFI bios is via a Dos bootable drive. Also there is no official file to update with, the one I have found on the Gigabyte forums is old and unofficial and not supported. I dont even know if its the right file!!

I have heard updating via Windows is risky already, with my situation it feels like I am playing with a loaded bomb.
How I wish I had done more research and bought a proper board to begin with.
 
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