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 Posted: Fri, 6th Mar 2009 19:45 Post subject: OC noob.. want to oc my cpu |
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gidday mates,
i have never oc'd anything , im probably 6-12 months from getting a new rig and am stuck with a mid low c2d e6550 @2.33 and would like to oc it to 2.6 if possible. does any one have a good tutorial or pointers for me how to do it and what cooling i need for oc.
cheers!
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| Posted: Sat, 7th Mar 2009 01:23 Post subject: |
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i have : gigabyte p35 s3l mobo
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Frant
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| Posted: Sat, 7th Mar 2009 09:25 Post subject: Re: OC noob.. want to oc my cpu |
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| Shayetet13 wrote: | gidday mates,
i have never oc'd anything , im probably 6-12 months from getting a new rig and am stuck with a mid low c2d e6550 @2.33 and would like to oc it to 2.6 if possible. does any one have a good tutorial or pointers for me how to do it and what cooling i need for oc.
cheers! |
If you can get it to 3Ghz it's definitely worth it. The difference in performance will be much more noticeable than 2.33-to-2.6.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
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| Posted: Sat, 7th Mar 2009 17:12 Post subject: Re: OC noob.. want to oc my cpu |
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| Frant wrote: | | Shayetet13 wrote: | gidday mates,
i have never oc'd anything , im probably 6-12 months from getting a new rig and am stuck with a mid low c2d e6550 @2.33 and would like to oc it to 2.6 if possible. does any one have a good tutorial or pointers for me how to do it and what cooling i need for oc.
cheers! |
If you can get it to 3Ghz it's definitely worth it. The difference in performance will be much more noticeable than 2.33-to-2.6. |
This is true but should be pointed out you get into diminishing returns for exponentially more voltage/heat. And oc 'noobs' don't understand this and don't realize many that post their bios settings are on extreme cooling systems and thats why they have insane levels of volts. Instead of walking it slowly up and testing as they go, they copy somone's predefined OC. Ergo, fried chip.
To the OP: Make sure you have good cooling. I recommend either a thermalright or zalman heatsink if you are going to be pushing your cpu. Also, you can never do enough stress testing.
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| Posted: Sat, 7th Mar 2009 17:26 Post subject: Re: OC noob.. want to oc my cpu |
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| upstart_69 wrote: | | Frant wrote: | | Shayetet13 wrote: | gidday mates,
i have never oc'd anything , im probably 6-12 months from getting a new rig and am stuck with a mid low c2d e6550 @2.33 and would like to oc it to 2.6 if possible. does any one have a good tutorial or pointers for me how to do it and what cooling i need for oc.
cheers! |
If you can get it to 3Ghz it's definitely worth it. The difference in performance will be much more noticeable than 2.33-to-2.6. |
This is true but should be pointed out you get into diminishing returns for exponentially more voltage/heat. And oc 'noobs' don't understand this and don't realize many that post their bios settings are on extreme cooling systems and thats why they have insane levels of volts. Instead of walking it slowly up and testing as they go, they copy somone's predefined OC. Ergo, fried chip.
To the OP: Make sure you have good cooling. I recommend either a thermalright or zalman heatsink if you are going to be pushing your cpu. Also, you can never do enough stress testing. |
Since each system is unique and there's no guarantee that one setting will work for a different system even if it's the exact same parts it should NOT be overclocked by copying other peoples settings. It doesn't work that way. Overclocking is all about learning how to tweak motherboard, CPU and RAM and understand that they're all affecting each other.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
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| Posted: Mon, 9th Mar 2009 22:03 Post subject: Re: OC noob.. want to oc my cpu |
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| upstart_69 wrote: | | Frant wrote: | | Shayetet13 wrote: | gidday mates,
i have never oc'd anything , im probably 6-12 months from getting a new rig and am stuck with a mid low c2d e6550 @2.33 and would like to oc it to 2.6 if possible. does any one have a good tutorial or pointers for me how to do it and what cooling i need for oc.
cheers! |
If you can get it to 3Ghz it's definitely worth it. The difference in performance will be much more noticeable than 2.33-to-2.6. |
This is true but should be pointed out you get into diminishing returns for exponentially more voltage/heat. And oc 'noobs' don't understand this and don't realize many that post their bios settings are on extreme cooling systems and thats why they have insane levels of volts. Instead of walking it slowly up and testing as they go, they copy somone's predefined OC. Ergo, fried chip.
To the OP: Make sure you have good cooling. I recommend either a thermalright or zalman heatsink if you are going to be pushing your cpu. Also, you can never do enough stress testing. |
It is almost impossible to fry a core2. really.
and there are not so many people posting "predefined" settings with more then ~1.4 V vcore.
And even 1,5 shouldn`t fry your cpu - even the newer 45nm chips.
You will get heat issues - but I am sure every noob will notice this.
For a "save overclock don`t go above 1,45 Volt on old cores (everything that is not E5xxx ,e7xxx, e8xxx) and 1,35 on new chips.
Don`t increase north and southbridge more than 0,1 - 0,2 V. You can leave it untouched. most likely won`t make any difference.
Ram is "save" till 2,2 V.
Start increasing the fsb in 10 Mhz steps without increasing Voltage.
Set your Ram divider to 1:1 ( the smallest possible). Another divider won`t increase performance on intel Platforms.
If the system becomes unstable - increase vcore.
Just stay inside the limits i mentioned above - that even works with stock cooling.
Have fun.
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