I have a E8400 running on a Gigabyte P35-DS3L. I've achieved an overclock to 3.4Ghz. I'm really trying to get upto 3.6. At 3.4, I can run Orthos fine. At 3.6 hour, it crashes within 5 seconds. Windows Vista starts up, but even Vista crashed.
My temperatures seem to be fine, around 40C for the CPU according to the BIOS and Gigabyte's utility in Windows. What could be holding back the overclock? I've tried doing some research and people claim you can get upto 3.6 easily without messing with voltages. I'm thinking my memory is holding me back. I think currently it's running at 756 or something up from the 667 (ddr2) stock. I really don't want to spend $50 -60 on new ddr2 800 memory if it won't do me any good.
My temperatures seem to be fine, around 40C for the CPU according to the BIOS and Gigabyte's utility in Windows. What could be holding back the overclock? I've tried doing some research and people claim you can get upto 3.6 easily without messing with voltages. I'm thinking my memory is holding me back. I think currently it's running at 756 or something up from the 667 (ddr2) stock. I really don't want to spend $50 -60 on new ddr2 800 memory if it won't do me any good.