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a1ias

a1ias

a1ias

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Straight to the point....Had many systems but never ever dipped my toe into the murky waters of overclocking, never really felt the need to.

However, just upgraded my system again with the following hardware:

E6750 "Conroe" CPU (@ stock cooling)
ABIT IP35-E Mobo
4gb Corsair 6400 RAM (4x 1gb)
OcUK 8800 GTX
Used my existing 74gb Raptor
OS - Vista Home Premium

Now, I've managed to figure out how to go in and adjust the RAM timings to 4-4-4-12 and upped the RAM voltage to 2.05. I've also had a read through the beginners overclocking guide above^ and have to say *GULP*.

What I don't want to do, is spend all my hard earned cash on this system and have it running at well below it's capabilities.

And so, before I start fiddling, breaking, burning, crashing, crying, screaming, banging my head against a wall, attempting suicide, smiling, crying some more..... I figured I'd download CPU-Z and have a look at what I've got under the hood at the moment, hence, the following screenshots:-

CPU.jpg


CACHE.jpg


MAINBOARD.jpg


MEMORY.jpg


SPD.jpg


And now to the point of this post.....drumroll......would you be happy with the above were it your system, or would you suggest that I take the time and effort to learn all there is to know about overclocking and go ahead and add some juice to this baby for some impressive gains?

"What would you guys do....."

Post is aimed at beginners to overclocking as well as experts; I'd certainly be interested in your experiences of the pitfalls to avoid, and I have to say, that initial guide seems like a hell of a lot to digest when you know **** all about the subject!

Thanks in advance for your input guys (and gals of course.... :) )
 
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@mk17 Those screens were at default BIOS settings so nothing adjusted.

For the last hour or so I made the following manual changes:

Configured BIOS softmenu to manual (this auto adjusted multiplier to 8x)
I upped BUS speed to 360 and CPU voltage to 1.37 (from stock 1.35)
No other changes and CPU-Z reported as follows:

CPU2.jpg



MEMORY2.jpg


Ran Orthos Beta for about an hour (some of that playing Hellgate: London) and all tests seemed to be passing fine...

I then rebooted to get temps from BIOS (not sure how reliable these are but the following were reported):

CPU - 41
SYS - 41
PWM - 49

And now, back in windows, ran CPU-Z and it seems to be reporting incorrectly! At first boot it kept jumping between multiplier of 6 & 8 and Core speed of 2160 & 2879.
It has now settled down at 6x/2160 but I know that's not what the setting is.

Anyway, enough for now, no rush, more reading tomorrow.... thanks for the advice thus far folks :)
 
I think I will upgrade to a non-stock cooler to be on the safe side; is this one considered pretty adequate:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-017-AR&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=821

I need to do a bit more reading tonight, I'll also grab that software you recommend for the temp and stress testing, thank you.

I also assume that it is better to have speedstep disabled? But before I do, I'll try and learn a little more about what it actually does.
 
I think I need to stick to the 'don't rush it' advice so before I get too carried away, I'm going to get some vantage cooling in place.

I'll go with the arctic cpu cooler as previously mentioned and would appreciate a not overcostly recommendation that would be simple enough to attach to the PWM on my IP35-E (now that I know where it is :) ).
 
I need to have a play with the divider after another read.

I did notice actually that as I increased the BUS to 360, the DRAM Freq. went up from the 408 to 432.

I'm guessing that as I tweak up the CPU BUS Speed and Voltage, I need to tweak down the memory divider to try and keep the frequency as close to 400 as possible?
 
I'm starting to enjoy this oc malarky :)

Latest reading (now using PC Wizard 2008):

20070109.jpg



Is that core temp acceptable or a little high?



I've d/l Prime95 v25.5 and will let it run through th ewhole day tomorrow while at work.
 
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Ok, ran P95 v25.5 for 9 hours today on the following o/c:

20070110.jpg


No errors reported so that can only be a good thing I guess...

I've now upped the FSB to 400 and divider is still at 1:1, no voltage changes, so will run P95 again tomorrow and report back :)

I tried to run that CoreTemp proggy on Vista Home Premium but just get a bagload of errors, even after trying to run it in admin on compatability mode :/
 
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