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I have a system on the way and am looking to OC my processor a bit, and I have some questions.

First, it'll be a E4400, and I want to go from 2.0 to 3.0. I'll be using an artic cooler 7. I want to overclock to a safe/conservative # and from reading it sounds like 3 will be fine with that cooler. I also want to do this without increasing voltage. Is this likely? Is this safe?

I also have some 800 corsair ram, 2 x 1 gigs, and want to go from 5-5-5 to 4-4-4. Can I likely do this without a voltage increase? This ram was only slightly more expensive than 667 ram, but as an afterthought.. will I see any benefit from this system with the 800?

The guides out there or mostly for the 6xxx series, so I wasn't able to get a whole lot of info on the 4400, since this is just coming out.

Oh, and I'll be using a Gigabyte 965P-S3. Thank you!

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The E6xxx guides also work with The E4xxx CPU's. Your set up looks fine but i dont think that you will be able to hit 3Ghz on a S3, to go that high you need a DS3 or better. And yes you probably need to increase voltage.

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Well, it does do 1066 fsb, that won't cut it?

Reply to Muck

No, in order to hit 3 Ghz on the E4400, you'll need to take it to 300 Mhz FSB (1200 Mhz quad-pumped).

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Should I get a different board then?

Those other boards aren't much more expensive.

The reviews on newegg for this board say they can get to 400, why would going to 300 be a problem? Is there something about the 4400 that I'm missing that makes this a bad motherboard for it?

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Well, so far so good. Able to do this at no voltage increase, except for ram which was 1.8 at stock (instead of 2.1 as it should have been). I have the ram running right around 800 and down to 4-4-4-12, and the fsb at 300 w/ 3.0 on the cpu.

Temps running right around 59% at full load and no errors after a few hours, hopefully it stays that way.

Reply to Muck

im interested in your setup. I have an e4400 @ 3.0ghz with a DS3, but it's auto vcore bumps it up to 1.4 volts. i was able to get it down to 1.2 volts, but it was unstable (stock 1.325 volts). I really want it to stay at stock volts.

What mobo did you end up using, and was your stock voltage 1.325 volts?

Also, do you mean 59C under full load?


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