Possible for any more?

[Priapus]

Hi Guys.

Well as some of you may know, I've been trying to overclock my new Intel rig. First time owning a Intel, was on a AMD 754 3400+ for four years.

Current setup now is:

Intel E4400 @ 2.90Ghz
Gigabyte GA-945GCMX-S2
2 x 1GB Chaintec Apogee 667 memory,
LC-B500AT 500w PSU.

Now, I've gotten this E4400 to 2.9Ghz, stable. Tested with Super PI and Orthos for a couple of hours.

However when I set it to 300 x 10x (3Ghz) the pc won't POST. .

I had my E6300 at 310 x 7 - stable. So memory can do the 300 fine.

No I'm not too sure what's the problem here. I pushed the Vcore of the E4400 to 1.4V, still nothing. .
Memory is at 1:1 ratio as well.

Here are some screen shots of CPU-Z:

 

[Priapus]

Ah, that's an idea. I didn't think of that.

Will give it ago now.

Thank you.

 

[Priapus]

Okay, not too sure what happened...2.95Ghz. Seems to be be voltage issue as this PSU undervolts by 0.5V. So might try upping it more..

 

[Priapus]

2.95Ghz seems to be stable now. More testing. If I can just get it to 3Ghz, I'll stop and be happy there.

 

[Priapus]

Spoke too soon. Locked up in Windows. @ 2.95Ghz.

 

[Priapus]

But the ram run fine at 310mhz on the E6300..., take it CPU at 3Ghz needs it to be redused?

 

[Priapus]

Okay, fair enough. I will try that just now and let you know.

Many thanks.
Rob.

 

[Priapus]

Still locked up.

 

[Priapus]

Well, I am happy at 2.9Ghz then. My E2140 and E6300 where never good at 2.4

 

[Priapus]

No, unfortantly not.