Can someone help overclock my E8400 to 3.8 GHZ?

yea increase fsb to 422 then add vcore if needed. shouldnt need more than about 1.36 so you should be safe tbh.

set mem to linked, linked means the mem will run 1:1 with the FSB

increase fsb gradually to desired fsb and upping the volt slowly on the cpu and see if the system is stable (using things like orthos, prime95, etc etc)

note: increasing the fSB will then increase your mem speed as well, so more volts might be required for the cpu AND mem, depending on your memory

higher fsb puts more pressure on the northbridge so you MAY need to also increase north bridge voltage one step

first step is to see if you can get by with just increasing vcore on cpu and voltage on memory, get the system stable @ the OC and then bring the voltage back down to just where its stable by running the tests, using an excel spreadsheet helps in this task

yah what he said mah bad

Zorg the fsb is quad pumped by the processor before it goes to memory 1:1 will at 422 fsb will try to run his memory at 1688

yea but the ratio that u think is 1:1 is actually 2:1 only ddr3 has the speed to do 1:1 1688:844 is a 2:1 ratio

Sorry for the slight hijack Yetyhunter.

Zorg i'm curious about that vcore on the q6600 you got there. Is that OC Prime Stable with that vcore? Just curious, because i have mine set much higher. CPU-Z reads 1.336 with almost full load, F@H , and i think it's set at 1.35 when idle. Anyways, just curious because if it is, i might try lowering mine to lower temps and power usage.

Well good news! Dropped the voltage from 1.35 to 1.28 and so far so good.

I haven't tested with prime due to motherboard heat concerns. My chipsets like to get really freakin' hawt when running small fft, but nothing else. Instead i continued doing my everyday applications to see if i got any instability.

I run F@H SMP @70% usage, and F@H GPU which used about 5% cpu. I'm currently sitting at about 75% total usage, all the time, day or night. And when i do anything else it goes to 100%. I did about 4hrs of file compression yesterday with no issues. Best of all, my temps have dropped about 6-8c across all cores