A guide for overclocking

[Phenomenal Flea]

(07-17-2009, 10:44 PM)cmccmc Wrote: I can only answer the first part of your question but the way you overclock through windows doesn't permanently apply unless you tell it to. You can always test it for stability for an hour first

Oh! So when I reset, or if it were to blue screen on me, it will revert back to standard setting afterwards?

Thanks! But is this safe?

[bamomega]

is not a good idea to overclock beacause you can burn your mother board an your cpu be carful with overclok

[The King]

(07-18-2009, 02:55 AM)bamomega Wrote: is not a good idea to overclock beacause you can burn your mother board an your cpu be carful with overclok

Sounds a bit noob-like, sry. You can also burn your CPU just by running the PC 12 hours a day for about a year... and don't say "to burn the CPU", you will never really burn your CPU so that you see smoke or something like that. You can just damage the hardware, but the chance is really small if you act like I said... I overclocked 3 different PCs to really awesome clocks and damaged right nothing.

The Advanced Guide will come soon, I'm working on it.

[CacoFFF]

Will it include pinmod for socket 775?

[nosound97]

Overclocking is never safe, you need powerful cooling for it and everything will be ok then

[CacoFFF]

And remember not to touch voltage on a cpu. Heat can kill it, as long as you don't keep it properly cooled. But an overdose of voltage will kill it in even less time no matter what you do.

[Core2uu]

(07-18-2009, 03:42 AM)CacoFFF Wrote: And remember not to touch voltage on a cpu.

You certainly will need to play with the voltage to get stable on higher clocks. You can't get very high by staying with stock vcore.

[The King]

Well, I reached 3,6 Ghz without increasing the voltage. But I agree that the reason why I can't get a higher clock is that I didn't increase the voltage.

Quote:Will it include pinmod for socket 775?

No, I don't think I will include such things like pinmods, they are more dangerous, I think.

(07-18-2009, 03:22 AM)nosound97 Wrote: Overclocking is never safe, you need powerful cooling for it and everything will be ok then

That's right, but if you have good cooling, it is quite save. And when really only increasing the clock in small steps and then testing, you will see Windows making problems before the Processor will give up without any warning.[/quote]

[CacoFFF]

(07-18-2009, 04:25 AM)Core2uu Wrote:

(07-18-2009, 03:42 AM)CacoFFF Wrote: And remember not to touch voltage on a cpu.

You certainly will need to play with the voltage to get stable on higher clocks. You can't get very high by staying with stock vcore.

On your E8500, that is true, on my E2180, i can make it reach 2.66 easily, will try over 3ghz once I do the pinmod (my motherboard is fsb stubborn), the guys of XBitLabs made it run on 3.20ghz without touching the VCore.

It all depends on what you have really, these Pentium Dual cores (E2xxx, E5xxx, E6300 -different one-) all have low default FSB and huge multipliers, giving great overclocking capabilities, without even touching VCore, not to mention their prize.

[Core2uu]

(07-18-2009, 05:05 AM)CacoFFF Wrote: the guys of XBitLabs made it run on 3.20ghz without touching the VCore.

Wow, and the E2180 is only like 3x cheaper than the E8500 if I'm not mistaken.