C2D E7500 overclocking

devilofdeaths

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ok so first off let me say that i have looked at the overclocking guide on Tom's and it didn't help.i have a C2D E7500 in my rig the reason that i am overclocking it is because i also have 2 nvidia 465's in SLI and the E7500 is bottlenecking them so i'm wanting to overclock it so it isn't suck a bad bottleneck(bf3 cpu usage 95-100%,both gpu usage ~30%)my motherboard it an EVGA 122-yw-e173-RX can anyone tell me how to overclock the E7500 on this motherboard(not the TR version either that one i have found guides but the bios is different i want to get my cpu to atleast 3.4Ghz as right now it's on 2.93 at i do not have a stock cooler.i don't know what cooler it is but at idle the cpu is around 45C when room is about 30C
 

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That board supports 1333 FSB, so it should be pretty trivial to get at least 3.67GHz out of that cpu by changing the FSB from 1066 to 1333 (266->333) and increase the voltage of the cpu until it's stable. (OCCT, Prime95, intelburntest, etc)

You likely could get more out of it too, but that already surpasses your 3.4GHz request. I have a couple E5800s running at 4.0GHz at around 1.40-1.45V, and I used to have a couple E3400s at 3.75GHz or so.
 

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that is just it i can't find out where in the bios you change the FSB