How To Overclock My E8400 On Gigabyte GA-G41M-Combo On COOLER MASTER THUNDER 450W

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Hi Everybody How To Overclock My E8400 On Gigabyte GA-G41M-Combo On COOLER MASTER THUNDER 450W Spec: Processor-Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Mobo-Gigabyte GA-G41M-Combo Ram- Hynix 1333Mhz 4GB Single Stick Psu-COOLER MASTER THUNDER 450W GPU-ASUS HD 7790 Direct CU II OC 1 GB Hard Disk- 1×500GB(Sata),2×160GB(Sata,Ide) So As U Can See My Cpu Is Not Good At All
 
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I still use an E8400 build running Vista that I did in 2009 that was my main gaming PC for two years. I had it overclocked to 4.5GHz using a Zalman 9700LED cooler. I still have it and it's now just used as a backup and general use PC and returned to stock speed.

With that said, why do you want to overclock? It will not help in any meaningful fashion in any of today's games or applications. The chipset is just too old to make it worthwhile. But if you want to try, here is a good tutorial. If you are only using the stock Intel cooler, don't even think about doing it. Here's a tutorial:

http://www.overclock.net/t/575551/tutorial-how-to-overclock-a-e8400-to-3-6ghz-24-7
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I still use an E8400 build running Vista that I did in 2009 that was my main gaming PC for two years. I had it overclocked to 4.5GHz using a Zalman 9700LED cooler. I still have it and it's now just used as a backup and general use PC and returned to stock speed.

With that said, why do you want to overclock? It will not help in any meaningful fashion in any of today's games or applications. The chipset is just too old to make it worthwhile. But if you want to try, here is a good tutorial. If you are only using the stock Intel cooler, don't even think about doing it. Here's a tutorial:

http://www.overclock.net/t/575551/tutorial-how-to-overclock-a-e8400-to-3-6ghz-24-7
 
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On a G41 board? You don't. G41 boards don't have OCing options in them usually, so your odds of getting a good OC out of that chip is pretty low. The steps would be to lock the ram to the lowest speed possible, and then up the FSB to 400MHz. Adjust voltage and FSB as needed. I'm going to guess however your G41 chipset isn't going to allow this.
 
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Actually the Gigabyte GA-G41M-Combo board does have unlocked multiplier and FSB/BLCK overclocking settings if the CPU is unlocked, which the E8400 is. The weak link on that board is the 343Hz FSB speed limit. There are videos on Youtube of guys running through the OC options in the BIOS.
 
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G41 boards will have the FSB settings and the CPU multiplier setting. Those are needed to run the different FSB CPUs and allow speedstep. But I would be surprised to see Vcore or memory step locks. I don't recall ever seeing a G41 board that has things like that. Not saying one was never made, but 99%+ G41 boards won't have the settings needed to fine tune an OC. He can try it and see, but if it doesn't work that board won't have the features enabled to allow him to reach it.
 
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