dwandler

Im a newbie at ocing please help!

I have a gigabyte ep45-ud3p mobo
with a Quad Core Q9550 E0
4 gb of Ocz Reaper hcr
Nvidia 260 gtx
I have a sweet case to NZXT LEXA with 4 fans in it etc
Help me clock this baddie plesase or what I can do
I hear they do very well.
Please help me get this badboy started!
Oh and is it normal to see those phase lights on
During bootup?

Harrier

You'll want to go into the BIOS and raise your FSB in small increments (5 or so a time). As you increase the FSB you will probably need to increase the voltage to make it stable. But don't raise it unless you have to. Also set your multiplier for the CPU as high as it will go. Remember not to put too many volts through it. You can also have a fiddle with the CPU:RAM ratio dividers (or whatever they're called ). Oh yes, and what CPU cooler do you have?

If you want to check something before you do it, then post it here and I'll check it over

[Teh Root]

Hmm. Start at around your stock which is 2.8 right? Try getting to 3.0 then incrementally up from there by 10 MHz each time. To see what you highest stable is. Please also fill in the system specs for us. That way we could accurately give you a prediction and advice. A must have for OC'ing CPU
s is a quality PSU.

This is for 4.0 GHz = 471FSB x 8.5 Multiplier = 4001MHz

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gothev

Yes it is normal. What you want to do is go into BIOS, AND IN M.B intelligent and click on that. Then you should enable something that allows you to change the FSB or Front Side Bus. Increase in increments of 5mghz or 0.01 and make sure you sun a stability test and check your temperatures. Make sure you increase your multiplier to max and then work of that with the FSB. Make sure that it is stable. If it doesn't boot up that means you either don't have enough voltage or its overheating. Make sure you only increase volts when necessary. That is when it boots and you check and it is running at the maximum volts you have allowed.

You should be able to get it to at least 3.4Ghz.

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dwandler

Hey Thanks guys gonna see what I can do right now just woke up
Im loading my system specs as we speak to so you guys can see.
So do I want to change load line calibration or anything like that?
I watched a guys videos on youtube went and changed a bunch of stuff like
a newbie then windows had an error. But after a restart I was golden again then
I found you guys is kinda godsend. The company I bought my mobo and processer
etc mounted everything and I didnt remember to save there settings

dwandler

There added my system well for the most part My case shows my system as being really cool. CPU 26 , HDD 22 , SYS 23.

But Im not sure whats correct which program to trust ya know
I havent really overclocked anything did my card a bit but then freaked out when I did the overclock and reset it. Should I set the Bios in the setting to the default or maybe call the guys that set my Bios when they put everything in the case first?

There is 4 fans on this case as well SO i was hoping it would run cool.

Kryton

Chances are the guys who built your machine didn't do much except for what was needed if anything. You can use the default settings in the BIOS and it should be OK.
After restoring your BIOS default settings, be sure to make notes of what you've done while changing settings and keep these changes minimal until you know more about the BIOS.

HWMonitor is a program you can use to see what your temps are within Windows but remember it's software and not 100% accurate, more like 90 - 95% on average.

You can get it here: http://www.cpuid.com/hwmonitor.php

dwandler

Awesome thanks Kryton grabbed that up
Id like to get some screenshots / settings for you guys to see.
I think this system is capable of alot seems like such a good combo!