Please Help a noob over clocker :) (ASUS P5N + E2160)

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The kit I've got is:

Asus P5K Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard

Intel Pentium Dual Core E2160 1.80GHz 800MHz Socket LGA775 CPU (with standard cooler and Antec Thermal greeeese)

Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2 DHX PC2-6400C4DHX TwinX (2x1GB) @ 4-4-4-12

700w Fsp700-80gln Psu

PCI-E X1950XTX with arctic accellero and added turbo module. (Yes I would happily clock this too :) )

Silverstone Precision PS-01B-W Midi-Tower Case - Black

3x Akasa AK-191-BL Blue Ultra Quiet 120mm Fan - 3 Pin
(One in the front, one in the back and one in the side window)

Basically I want to clock it up as much as I can and still be stable :)

I am not familiar with my current bios and I have no idea what to do lol

Please help me :D

I'd like 2.4+ if possible :) Does this sound do-able with this kit?

Cheers,

G
 
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What should I set it to?

I'm on a stock cooler, but have a arctic 7 on the way on monday for a fiver off a mate.

I'm scared of voltages, what should I try?

I just loaded into windows with these setting and for some reason it was weird, couldnt load cpu z or core temp lol
 
Find out what the default voltage is and increase it very slightly. You will be wanting to download prime 95 or something to stress test it.
 
E2XXX CPU's clock very well you might want to consider getting an aftermarket heatsink ..

I use one of these on the G/F's E2180 and that runs along happily @ 3.2ghz. Only down side is @ high RPM the fan is a little loud on the AC7.

Alternativly you might want to look at one of these you would need to buy a sepearate 120mm fan but then you do have a bit more control over the fan noise and its a better cooler.. Fan wise: these, these or these are all nice fans for performance / noise

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Ah u have an AC7 on the way! :)
 
Ok clocking..

Download CPUz, Coretemp and Prime95...

Load up coretemp and see what the VID on your CPU is... this should give you a starting value as to what voltage to manually set in the BIOS.

Once you have manually set the voltage (vcore) or (cpu voltage) depending on the board then load back into windows.. load up Coretemp, CPUz and Prime95.. set Prime95 going leave it running for 15mins.. make sure you go into the menu and click on the advanced rounding option and that you run a small fft's test..

It should pass 15 mins no problem, once thats done go back into the BIOS and increase your FSB a small amount (5 or 10 "points") go back into windows and repeat the Prime95 test..

If your Prime95 test fails then go into the BIOS and increasr the vcore on the CPU by 1 notch and re-run the test.

Basicially you repeat each step until you get to the clock you want... then let prime95 run for a good few hours 4 is probably a minium time, if it fails during this time increase the vcore 1 more notch and let it run again.. make sure you keep an eye on the temps of your CPU cores in coretemp.. 60/65c should be your max
 
VID is 1.3250 :)

I've downloaded coretemp cpuz and SP2004

There is no "menu and click on the advanced rounding option" that I can see...

Current screenie.....

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I let that run 8 minutes and now I have upped the fsb to 266 and manually set the cpu voltage to 1.3250....

by the way what does this SP2004 do when it fails?

Also why does Core Voltage in CPU-Z say 1.256 even though in Bios I have put 1.3250?
 
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ok well in general if its going to fail quickly then it will do so within the first 15 minutes so let it run that long at least.. its a bit boring I know :) but will save you time in the long run!
 
thats odd lol just booted up at 2.7ghz ([email protected]) (yes I'm impatient) and it is saying "Found new hardware IDE controller" lol

It was really unstable at this, failed straight away on SP2004 and rebooted itself when I went on google.
 
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I don't get how some people can clock this CPU to 3ghz on stock cooler at default voltage and I can't even get near that.

What would be letting me down?

If it's my mobo I could RMA it and get a different one as it does have a faulty IDE socket.
 
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