C2D Overclocking Guide for Beginners

[[Grevane]]

Originally Posted by Clunk

Orthos doesnt do anything to the GPU.

If you had 95c CPU temps, you should have stopped it. Your cooling clearly isnt fitted properly.

Did you get a new cooler and RAM?

Howdee all! New job has been taking up alot of my time. from the business's point of view I walked into a total disaster... network has been hacked, everything is setup badly from disk partitioning to firewall setup... but from my point of view, I'm a proverbial "Pig in ----"... w00t... having great fun.

Just popped onto the forum as it's my 33rd Birthday today and noticed this thread is longer than ever... LOL!

And just wanted to say to BULLZI that Clunk is "the man" when it comes to overclocking... the patience of a saint and well... if he doesn't know the answer to your questions... they are probably not worth knowing... (But also, be very careful when OC'ing... temps rise fast and if things don't seem great early on, stop before you cook something. Just common sense).

But on a more 'technical' basis...

"If you'd spend as much time working on your overclocking skills as you do on your reading, young Padawan, you would rival Master Clunk as an Overclocker."

OK... ok... i've had a couple of beers... it's my birthday after all... Starwars quotes always creep into conversation...

Anyway, as soon as work calms down and I get a chance to send my mobo of for replacement (my mate is back from hols and there is no problem getting it swapped over but work is too busy for me right now) I'll be back for some more OC'ing adventures...

Take care all! and cya soon!

[BULLZI]

No Clunk,i still havent got my ram or cpu cooler.I hv just ordered the ram bt as i will switch to quad core after the price cuts(within 3-4 months) i m thinking will C2D coolers work decently with Quad cores,too?rite now i m searching my answers.

[Clunk]

IF you are planning a move to quad core, it makes sense to buy the best current air cooler. Although saying that, in 3-4 months, there will probably be something better.

Seriously though, if things are getting to 95c, you have done something seriously wrong in the fitting of the cooler.

[EtheAv8r]

Originally Posted by BULLZI

errr Clunk,my 1st ORTHOS and TAT analysis was a disaster.
at 2.42 GHZ,temperature was shown 95 C within half an hour at 100%load.ambient temp.=38 C.
i think i need a good AC first and then fancy overclocking.
gpu temperature also went high,about 75 C n from there on,i m having small artifacts(also big ones but rare) while playing games at high graphics.i think i hv screwed my PC .

Ambient temp of 38 C.... where on Earth do you live? As Clunk says with Temps of 95 you would heve been better to have stopped it and toned things down until you fitted a decent HSF.

[Gunwitch]

Well finally plucked up the nerve to overclock my 6320, admittedly just a little bit, but 2100 is better than 1.86.
Although on the CPU-Z it shows the chip as 1860 but on the TAT it shows it as 2100. Temps are pretty good, i've got an artic cooler and heatsinks on my ram plus the 3 tri-cool fans in the P182.

[BULLZI]

Originally Posted by EtheAv8r

Ambient temp of 38 C.... where on Earth do you live? As Clunk says with Temps of 95 you would heve been better to have stopped it and toned things down until you fitted a decent HSF.

I am proud to be an INDIAN.

[Clunk]

Ah, what room temps did you have when it was 95c?

[Gunwitch]

Well oc'd my 6320 to 2800 and orthos had a fit, so back down to 2100 it went. which is comfortable.
Maybe i'm doing something wrong or my memory settings are out, but followed the guide.

Still it's stable at 2100 which is good enough for me as it's my first ever attempt at overclocking.

Anyway, this is what it's looking like now.


Shot at 2007-07-21

At least CPU-Z is showing my chip at it's overclocked setting unlike yesterday

Any tips well recieved

And a big thanks to Clunk for showing it's easy to overclock - and easy to bugger your pc if you do it wrong

[BULLZI]

Originally Posted by Clunk

Ah, what room temps did you have when it was 95c?

room temperature about 38-39 C

[Gunwitch]

Originally Posted by BULLZI

room temperature about 38-39 C

Good Lord man!!!!

[crazy]

Originally Posted by BULLZI

room temperature about 38-39 C

your room needs a heat sink
water cooling anyone?

but seriously, i wouldn't dare overclock in those conditions

[Eyes]

Hi, I have P5LD2 SE motherboard (i945 chpset), C2D E4300 (Zalman CNPS9700 NT cooler), 2Gb DDR2Kingmax 667 Mhz.
I reached 2.63 Ghz (733 Mhz for RAM) and tested with Orthos for 13 hours. It's stable and the max. temp was 59 (a lot for Zalman, I think that it's not such a good cooler after all).
My problem is that the sistem becomes unstable if I overclock to 2.7Ghz, resets or jams in windows. I increased the Vcore values but I have the same problem. DDR divider is 1:1 (600Mhz for 300 FSB).
I bios I disabled C1, TM2, intel spped step functions. I used Auto for PCI Express (if I set manualy to 100 the system won't boot at all).
Does anybody have an IDEEA what to do? I read on forums that 2.9 or 3.0 Ghz are easally obtained.

[Clunk]

Originally Posted by Eyes

Hi, I have P5LD2 SE motherboard (i945 chpset), C2D E4300 (Zalman CNPS9700 NT cooler), 2Gb DDR2Kingmax 667 Mhz.
I reached 2.63 Ghz (733 Mhz for RAM) and tested with Orthos for 13 hours. It's stable and the max. temp was 59 (a lot for Zalman, I think that it's not such a good cooler after all).
My problem is that the sistem becomes unstable if I overclock to 2.7Ghz, resets or jams in windows. I increased the Vcore values but I have the same problem. DDR divider is 1:1 (600Mhz for 300 FSB).
I bios I disabled C1, TM2, intel spped step functions. I used Auto for PCI Express (if I set manualy to 100 the system won't boot at all).
Does anybody have an IDEEA what to do? I read on forums that 2.9 or 3.0 Ghz are easally obtained.

You will get more response if you post a thread about this in general hardware.

You are using a 945 chipset, which isnt great for overclocking, and 667Mhz RAM, which isnt ideal either.

Really, you can either just make the best of what your current hardware can do, or buy hardware that overclocks well.

Sorry I cant be of more help

[BULLZI]

Originally Posted by crazy

your room needs a heat sink
water cooling anyone?

but seriously, i wouldn't dare overclock in those conditions

can u please let me know the current price of a room heat sink?

[narcist]

Great guide, but i think im doing something wrong.I get the mssage overclocking failed if i go anymore than 0.2ghz up not sre if its my mobo or memory

[Clunk]

Please post pics of your bios settings.