Looking for recommended settings for E7200

[tpc]

Yes, I know it is dated. But its what I got to work with. Air cooled with a cooler master hyper 101 cpu cooler running dual fans.

Intel E7200 LGA 775 CPU
GA-P35-DS3L rev 2.0 motherboard
4gb of 800 mhz Adata gaming series ram running at 5-5-5-12 timings
EVGA 7900 GTX video card
CoolerMaster Real Power Pro 750W power supply

Now I messed around a bit with it yesterday and ended up back at stock because I didn't feel confident in what I was doing. It seemed to run pretty stable at 3.16 Ghz with a Vcore of 1.25 something volts. I attemped to go higher, hoping I could get to 3.53 Ghz but with regards to the voltage I didn't want to smoke my processer. At 3.16 with CPUID HW monitor I was getting core temps as high as 60 on the one core that is the highest, and there was about a 10 degree difference between the 2. This was running prime95 for about 10 minutes or so. I also ran passmark and temps during that were about the same.

The thing was, my passmark score was like 1100 something at stock, and like 1300 something at 3.16. I know its a increase but not much of one, hence why I wanted to try to get to 3.53.

Any suggestions?

 

[jsc]

This should be your first stop.
Core2 Overclocking Guide
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/259899-11-core-overclocking-guide

Shadow's Gigabyte motherboard OC guide:
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/page-245679_11_0.html
It's for an EP35-DS3L.

Go through the guides. Then take your core voltage off Auto and set your memory voltage to factory recommended values. Change the System Memory Multiplier from AUTO to 2.00, 2.00B, or 2.00D - whichever you need to set the Memory Frequency to twice the FSB. Then when you increase the FSB, the memory clock will rise in in proportion with it. At an FSB of 266 MHz, your memory clock should be at 533 MHz.

You gain little if any real performance running memory any faster than a 1:1 ratio on a Core2 system.

Keep your CPU core voltage under 1.45 volts and your load temps under 70 C.