Overclocking My Wolfdale e8400

I need some help clocking my wolfdale to 3.6 ghz, first off i can only get it to run at 3.55 ghz safely with the multiplier set 9 and the cpu frquency at 395, i have read almost everwhere that these cpu's can be overclocked without difficulty all the way up to 3.8 ghz without even changing the cpu voltage, i have to crank my voltage from the default of like 1.265 up to 1.355 i think before its running pretty stabily, also if i go higher than 3.55 my onboard lan port stopps working.


Idk if it helps but my MoBo is an intel dp45sg which i have also heard intel boards suck for overclocking.

My question is bassicly what is The Ich/Mch option? do i need to change it to get the cpu running stably? And also are there any other settings that i need to change?

Or should i just forget about overclocking?

I o/c'ed my E8400 to 3.6ghz just by putting the fsb to 400. No change in anything else. Using the stock cooler and it doesn't go above 50*C playing COD:WAW or Company of Heroes. Sits around 30*C to 34*C on idle with speedstep enabled. The ram tried to change to a higher frequency but doesn't run that stable above 800mhz when it gets hot. I have also heard from numerous places that all the Intel boards that are actually made by intel are made more for stability than o/cing. I don't have any experience with them so I don't know for sure. Good luck.