Al plants Corn

So yeah, I need to know what options to change and all the sh.ts.

Please, don't just say "change this, this and do this".

I need detailed descriptions of how to do this right. If you have AIM, that would be even better. Mine is Al plants Corn. I would really appreciate any and all help.

I would love to get to 4GHz which, from what I've heard, should be fairly easy. Will check on this tomorrow.

halifax1

There are more than enough guides on here as well as the internet on how to accomplish this..

First of all, it highly depends if your E8500 is E0 or C0. If you gave more information it would help a lot.

Also updating your board to P08 if you haven't will help a lot as well.

I got an E8400 on my 780i very easily.

You need to go into the options in the BIOS, and change the FSB until it shows 4000mhz.

Also unlink your RAM and it should be running at default speeds of 800.

You will also have to go into the voltages area of the BIOS, and increase your CPU VCore. For my E8400 C0, I needed 1.42v in BIOS just for it to boot.

If you have a C0, it'll need quite a bit more voltage than E0 chips.

I would try running it at 1.3625v in BIOS, and see if it boots, and move your way down.

You shouldn't even need to touch anything else on the 780i except for unlinking your RAM, and setting your FSB show that it shows the speed as 4000mhz in the BIOS.

The 780i BIOS is weird..

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TwoCables

You're right in that getting 4.0 GHz out of the E8500 should be a walk in the park, especially considering that you have the TRUE with a good fan on it. After all, we're only talking about a 840 MHz overclock here.

So, unfortunately, it really is as easy as just being told what to change, and then bam: you should have 4.0 GHz without any problems. However, I only have the 680i, so here are some basics to start this off:

• CPU Core Voltage: 1.312V at the most (according to CPU-Z, not the BIOS). I mean, it shouldn't need much at all! But I'm providing headroom here to make sure this works.
• FSB Voltage: 1.3V
• FSB clock: 1684 MHz (421 MHz)
• Multiplier: x9.5
• FSB Memory Clock Mode: Unlinked instead of Sync Mode, or Linked, or Auto, etc.
• Memory settings: Manually set the memory to stock settings as printed on the stickers on your memory sticks.

If you have Vdroop Control, then enable it. Also, disable the following BIOS options:

• Spread Spectrum
• Intel Speedstep, or CPU EIST Function, etc.
• C1E Enhanced Halt State, or C1E something-or-other.

I know that you wanted more, but for 4.0 GHz out of the E8500 with air cooling like this, it really is just about this easy.

Oh, and again: you may be able to get away with much less core voltage since it's only an 840 MHz overclock, but experiment. With this CPU, you could probably use something less than 1.25V.

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Al plants Corn

Thanks fellas. I don't really like reading tuts, I'd rather have someone talk with me directly on what to do. The E85 is an E0, sorry didn't clarify. Oh and the bios is P08

I though the way to overclock was to increase in small increments? Is the E85/wolfdales just that good that you don't have to do this?

TwoCables

It's not that it's just that good, but it's that enough people have owned this CPU and ones like it on this motherboard (and motherboards like it) that you can start with somebody else's settings and then tweak from there.

But, if you had an i7, then you'd most definitely want to take baby steps and gradually increase the overclock bit, by bit. But as the i7 becomes more and more common, you'd eventually be able to just start with somebody else's settings and then tweak from there!

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Al plants Corn

Alright thanks man, really appreciate is. Will be back in a couple minutes with results

Al plants Corn

Screw the double post.

Got windows to boot but would restart instantly when orthos would kick in. Did that twice. Raised the CPU core voltage to 1.3625 and orthos has ran steady for almost 7min.

TwoCables

Whoa. Did you also use each setting that I posted?

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Al plants Corn

Yep, to the T. Didn't have a Vdroop option though.

TwoCables

Aw, no Vdroop Control. That kinda stinks.

Then try 1.4V FSB voltage, and see how it goes. Or, it could be something else that I don't know about since I only have the 680i.

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