max voltages and frequency depends on what kind of aftermarket cooler you buy, ambient temperatures and air flow in and out the case
Usually if you have these three things the safe voltage are:
1.55 Volts for vcore
Stop when load temperatures go above 60
Everest to monitor temperatures (it can do a whole bunch of stuff and its not free)
CPU-Z to see the your system settings/status
Use the Bios to overclock
Use Prime95 and (linx I prefer the latter as it is more intensive than p95) to check for stability
memtest86 to check for memory stability
good luck there are many many guides on how to overclock your cpu
NB overclocking is important because
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Dont go over 1.4 volts on the NB
Usually if you have these three things the safe voltage are:
1.55 Volts for vcore
Stop when load temperatures go above 60
Everest to monitor temperatures (it can do a whole bunch of stuff and its not free)
CPU-Z to see the your system settings/status
Use the Bios to overclock
Use Prime95 and (linx I prefer the latter as it is more intensive than p95) to check for stability
memtest86 to check for memory stability
good luck there are many many guides on how to overclock your cpu
NB overclocking is important because
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| As the CPU increases its speed to calculate data, so must the speed of which the CPU communicates with other components on the Motherboard: chipset, memory, etc. Let me take the classic example of a 4.0 GHz 940BE and its CPU-NB. If you were to leave the CPU-NB at 1.8 GHz stock then the data calculated by the CPU would create a bottleneck and thus resulting in errata errors or CPU errors. So in order to balance these speeds a CPU-NB clock of 3.0 GHz would be needed. In most cases of high OC's that result in crashes; the CPU-NB is usually the culprit. |
