coolwhip

yessir. but when i o/c
what i do is leave everythign at stock and than upp the fsb. i boot into windows and check for stability for about 20 mins or so with orthos. if it passes i go back into bios and raise fsb a little more, than test again for 20 mins with orthos. if it fails ill go back and raising the vcore upa notch or two, than go back into windows and check for stability, until i reach a clock i like. just follow rules for voltages, like 1.5 vcore for your chip i believe.

you have the ep45-ud3p, take the voltages off auto, it always puts them too high

JrockMOD

so how high are we looking at with my setup? I do have a 667 ram

Mr_Nibbles

Ram should not factor in to your overclock, because a divider can be used to set the rams clock.

JrockMOD

so what helps in overclocking cpu?

dralb

mobo power stability, PSU power stability, the cooling, the CPU itself. You should always seperate RAM and CPU and OC them separately. Thats the only way to see how high each can go with instability in the other causing issues. Since in most cases the CPU clock is the most advantageous thing to OC, the RAM is done after the max CPU clock is reached.

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JrockMOD

so is there something that says cpu volt that I need to bump up? or is there other voltages I need to bump up as well? or can I just do cpu? lol

Ando

It depends on how far you oc your cpu. If you overclock the cpu to the point it becomes unstable - you need to bump up the vcore (cpu voltage) in small amounts. (and dont go over 1.4)

As the vcore goes up so do temps....so DL coretemp from the DL section of OCN and use that. (dont go over 60 - 65 load temp)

If you get to the point that vcore wont stablise the cpu you need to start bumping up FSB voltage (Vtt) and NB voltage (northbridge....it controlls the fsb.). As you bump un Vtt and NB voltage the motherboard will get hotter - so dont go to high unless you get better NB and mosfet cooling.

To test if its the CPU or FSB that is unstable do this.

first put your cpu multi to x6 and keep bumping up the FSB (and giving it a little more voltage as it becomes unstable), after every FSB bump use prime95blend test to test for stabilaty....Do this untill you get to the max you are happy with/can do.

Now you have the max FSB - start bumping up the cpu multi by 1 and test with prime95 small fft's to check if its stable. if its stable go 1 more on the multi...if its unstable - raise vcore 1 setting and test again........do this untill you have the max stable oc you are happy with/can get.

And WAM you have a stable cpu overclock.

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