Quick question

regulus · 12 Nov 2008 at 21:44

I'm about to push my E8400 past it's pathetic 3.2 it's idling at. Question, by what increments do you OC from here? do you go directly to 3.4? or....?

regulus · 12 Nov 2008 at 22:26

Being new to this I'm understandably nervous. However, I'm sitting on 3.8Ghz at the moment. Another question, on CPU-Z it shows my actually Core speed at 2.8Ghz...wtf?

regulus · 12 Nov 2008 at 22:28

And now it fluctuates between 2.8ghz and 3.8ghz.. I dont get it

regulus · 12 Nov 2008 at 22:30

Hang on, it seems to moment I run a CPU stress test, it shoots up to 3.8Ghz, the moment the CPU idles, it seems to shoot down to 2.8ghz

regulus · 12 Nov 2008 at 22:34

Does it make a difference at all? Apologies for the daft questions, been out of PC's for a while.

regulus · 12 Nov 2008 at 22:53

Another question. I've so far only been overclocking the CPU by raising the FSB value. I've left the voltage as it was since I wasn't sure what I was looking at with the Americantrends BIOS. All the guids I've read and watched use Phoenix Bios which looks different. Anyway, RAM, do I need to do anything with it?

regulus · 12 Nov 2008 at 23:26

And what's a comfortable voltage for the CPU?

regulus · 13 Nov 2008 at 10:45

I've got 4gig Geil PC2-6400C4 800Mhz Black Dragon. I'm still trying to figure out where the hell the voltage settings are and what they mean. You cannot just type in the voltage value which sucks. I just wanna get to 4ghz and let it be.

regulus · 13 Nov 2008 at 10:46

Oh yea, iv'e also let Prime95 run for over 40min this morning. No errors or excessive heat.