need help ocing E5400.

• GGINS

  27 Jul 10, 18:57

  yo ppl:) would like to get some advice on overclocking E5400, currently running at 3.21 Ghz and vcore at 1.3v. Mobo is g41m es2l:) looking to make it fly at around 3.6++Ghz:) pls tell me the vcore voltage too:)
• Raraken

  27 Jul 10, 21:03

  Originally posted by GGINS:

  yo ppl would like to get some advice on overclocking E5400, currently running at 3.21 Ghz and vcore at 1.3v. Mobo is g41m es2l looking to make it fly at around 3.6++Ghz pls tell me the vcore voltage too

  Depends on chip, cooling and motherboard. 

   

  Some motherboards cannot support high FSB speeds or high power draw processors.

   

  I would suggest trying 1.35V with a 1200MHz FSB speed. Set your memory multipliers to as low as possible (1:1 is best, 1:2 if unable to select 1:1) And test for stability. Because your chip is a 45nm chip, you should not exceed 1.4V on the core.

• GGINS

  27 Jul 10, 21:42

  1200= base clock 300? Thanks:D

• Call4ljw

  27 Jul 10, 22:59

  Originally posted by Raraken:

  Depends on chip, cooling and motherboard. 

   

  Some motherboards cannot support high FSB speeds or high power draw processors.

   

  I would suggest trying 1.35V with a 1200MHz FSB speed. Set your memory multipliers to as low as possible (1:1 is best, 1:2 if unable to select 1:1) And test for stability. Because your chip is a 45nm chip, you should not exceed 1.4V on the core.

  1.44V for most 45nm processors actually.

  1.4V is 32nm.

   

  And i believe you meant 1200MTz FSB.

• Call4ljw

  27 Jul 10, 23:06

  Originally posted by GGINS:

  1200= base clock 300? Thanks:D

  Always start with the highest multiplier as some motherboards don't support bus at high speeds.

• GGINS

  27 Jul 10, 23:12

  hmmm just oc to 3.6 ghz, 1.325 vcore on coolermaster hyper tx3. Stable. Think i should i go further? Maybe 4ghz?
• Call4ljw

  28 Jul 10, 08:05

  Originally posted by GGINS:

  hmmm just oc to 3.6 ghz, 1.325 vcore on coolermaster hyper tx3. Stable. Think i should i go further? Maybe 4ghz?

  I believe it is able to overshot 4ghz on air, but what's the use? do you really need so high speed? cpu speed is most of the time un-important.

• Raraken

  28 Jul 10, 17:02

  Originally posted by GGINS:

  hmmm just oc to 3.6 ghz, 1.325 vcore on coolermaster hyper tx3. Stable. Think i should i go further? Maybe 4ghz?

  Check CPU temps.