C2D Overclocking Guide for Beginners

[Chunter]

didn't touch vcore ,just put the fsb up to 400



gonna run prime now.

[moogle]

If prime fails up the vcore and repeat till you have it running stable. also check those temps and dont go past 1.3625 vcore

[Chunter]

and if it doesn't fail ? leave as is ?


oh and which test to run,atm its the small FFt's

[moogle]

Originally Posted by Chunter

and if it doesn't fail ? leave as is ?

of course, and then you know you've got a heavenly chip!
if you wanted to further optimize you could always lower the voltage to see if it's still stable!

[Chunter]

which test ? look up,i edited my post as you posted.

[moogle]

in place large fft's

from what i've been reading small fft's test if the cpu is stable but not the northbridge or southbridge so I'm going to test that out in the meantime. The large fft's should give maximum heat which you wont really reach quite a lot. click advanced in the toolbar and tick round off checking to make sure it notifies you when there is an error.

[Chunter]

first test passed,quick question.my dram says 480..does that mean my ram is overclocked ? really noobie i know but i'm just trying to get my head round all these numbers.
if i wanted to lower that 480 i could lower the multiplier down to 7 or 8 but my cpu speed would also drop ?

[moogle]

yeah your ram is overclocked. didn't you change the ratio in the bios so it's 1:1?
it would say your ram speed is 800 once you've done that. also how long did you run prime for? did you enable the round off checking too?

[Chunter]

thats where i got to,all i did was raise the fsb to 400 and my ram became 480,what should i lower down to get 400 dram frequency ?
how to get to 1:1 ?

[moogle]

Originally Posted by Chunter

thats where i got to,all i did was raise the fsb to 400 and my ram became 480,what should i lower down to get 400 dram frequency ?

wow I envy you with that CPU, didn't even have to change the voltage!!!
Anyways you should be able to change the ratio in the bios. I'm downloading your motherboard manual (assuming it's the Gigabyte DS3 in your My System bit) so I can tell you what to change.

One minute I'll post back, but on the whole it's looking good so far. What were your max temperatures for the CPU as a whole?

[Chunter]

yea its the ga ep35 ds3.
according to everest it was as per the screen shot,cpu got as high as 51,but each core was at 66,....don't understand that.

[moogle]

the cores are always hotter, the cpu one is in general, I always use the cpu temp but yours isn't bad as the cores aren't even past 71c.

PS - Sorry it's taking a while manufacturer website manual downloads are always slow slow slow.

[Agent]

Going to close this thread guys as its too hard to keep track of with the rapidly approaching 1000 posts mark

I have cloned Clunks guide into a new thread and stuck it C2D Overclocking Guide for Beginners

Please use that one now for all talk.

Cheers everyone