Should I OC and why

[troymscott]

What difference will I see if I take my 3.0GHz E8400 up to 3.6GHz. I have never OC'ed before and am thinking about it now. I think I would be limited to a 3.6 beacuse that would set my FSB at 400 and I have DDR2-800 RAM. Any how just looking on some advise on whether or not it is worth it. You can see my rig in my sig.

 

[troymscott]

I just read something to justify my last post. I would be limited to 400 FSB if I wanted to run a 1:1 FSBRAM which I heard was a good thing.
Any way any help would be appreciated.

 

[beurling]

Your memory would easy hit 890Mhz like mine, and I have DDR2-800. Memory can run higher than it's rated speed, you just have to give it slightly more voltage.

Going from 3Ghz to 3.6Ghz will show you an improvement in CPU intensive applications such as video encoding, some games, photoshop, etc.

For example.. I was turning an AVI into an MPEG4 for my Playstation 3... at 3Ghz it took 30minutes, at 4Ghz it took 8minutes.

So yeah... go into Bios, set your FSB to 400, after that you can decide if you want to go higher, because you can.

Set your Vcore to about the 1.3Volts area and stress test it.. If there is an issue or it doesn't boot, raise the voltage to 1.32V and try again.

Download Orthos if you dont have it in order to test your CPU and memory for stability.

Also make sure your memory is at it's rated voltage. If they are supposed to have 2.1V or 2.2V, make sure they are getting that. Mine are rated for 2.2V but when I first got them they were set to 1.8.

Let me know if you have any issues.

 

[troymscott]

After I set the FSB to 400, and the Vcore to 1.3, are there any other changes I need to make to make sure that I dont fry anything else. I heard that I need to change something to make sure I don't fry my video card.

 

[Evilonigiri]

Read the guide here on OCing. There's quite a few things you have left out.

Some includes locking the PCIe freq, disabling speedstep, stress testing, etc.

 

[ryanthesav]

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/240001-29-howto-overclock-quads-duals-guide

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=159680

 

[troymscott]

ryanthesav. Thanks for the first link, but i have already come across version 1.5 by graysky on anandtech.

your second link is about overclocking an 8400 gs video card, so that does not apply in my situation. (tahnk god that card sux)

 

[ryanthesav]

hehe my b. good luck