Please help my overclocking

[MaxRabbit]

I have a stable 2.8 Ghz overclock on my e2180 CPU, and my temps at load are only 45C. Also my CPU voltage is under stock! Given this, I thought I should easily overclock to 3 Ghz and bump up my Oblivion FPS a little.

However, once I bump up the FSB to 300, I can't boot up!

Here are my settings for the non-working 3 Ghz:

^^^^^^^^^^^^Also as you can see, I bumped my voltage up quite a bit higher than stock-and way more than my stable 2.8 Ghz overclock!

For reference:

1) Settings for stable 2.8 Ghz overclock:

^^^^^^^^NOTE lower than default Vcore

2) My pertaining specs:

CPU-Intel E2180
Motherboard-Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L
RAM-OCZ Platinum Revision 2 (Note on the specs of that RAM timings can be 4-4-4-15; I even lowered it to 5-5-5-15 trying to get my CPU to overclock!)
HSF-Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro

 

[Evilonigiri]

That's seems right.

Voltage is increased exponentially in relation to fsb. So if you want to get a 3.4Ghz overclock, voltage should probably be around 1.42V.

 

[MaxRabbit]

So my voltage should be even higher than that?! And you think that's the only thing that's wrong?

 

[blue_wister]

I'm no overclocking wizard so correct me if I'm wrong, but I'd presume if the voltage aint right it's not gonna have the juice to boot.

 

[MaxRabbit]

Yes-but I can't believe I'd have to increase it that much when I got it to 2.8 Ghz on so little...

 

[Evilonigiri]

Well think it this way: Intel stock voltage is wayyy too high. You caould probably run stock speeds at 1.2V.

As you go higher and higher, much more voltage is required. To top that off, I heard the E2180 isn't a good overclocker compared to the other E2xxxs.

 

[MaxRabbit]

Okay-so you do actually increase quite a bit for each bit of FSB you increase? I just didn't want to fry my CPU!

I actually see on reviews that the e2180 is the best overclocker-with most people easily reaching 3.2-3.4 Ghz...

But thanks for your help-and if anyone else has suggestions I'm keeping my eye on this thread and would greatly appreciate it.

 

[MaxRabbit]

Update: Grr-no matter what I do, I can't get to POST at 300 FSB... What can I do?! My temps are more than fine-I really should be able to get 300 FSB; I must be doing something wrong.

 

[Silverion77]

To test fine in windows at 10x300 I needed a voltage of 1.39375v I stopped it though because my temps hit my danger zone (67C)

 

[jony]

for a pentium 4 overclocked with temp of 30c is it alright,and temp of 90f.

 

[MaxRabbit]

It's a Core 2 Duo e2180.