Easy overclocking help for a beginner

[CNCBCN]

hello
this is what I put in the google sr: oc guide core 2 duo e8400
this is the result:Overclock Guide Intel C2d E8400 - HardLimit
I think I have nothing else to say.
P.D I put the link to this page to put one (to be exact it is the first one that comes out) but you have about a hundred and a half guides.

[lolly]

@CNCBCN:

hello
this is what I put in the google SR: oc core 2 duo e8400 guide
this is the result:Overclock Intel C2d E8400 Guide - HardLimit
I think I have nothing more to say.
P.D I put the link to this page to put one (to be exact it is the first one that comes out) but you have about a hundred and odd guides.

Hello. thanks for the answer, coincidentally that manual is one of the several that I looked at before asking, the truth is that no matter how much I read I don't clarify myself or I'm not 100 x 100 sure of what I have to do.

I am clear that you have to leave the multiplier at 9
And the pci express at 100

But I am not clear what value to leave the v core and the fsb. what would be the optimal values of v core and fsb, and do I have to touch the memories? they are ddr2 kingstom X at 800 mhz

Sorry to ask despite the manuals but the one who doesn't understand or doesn't dare if he doesn't ask in the end never dares to touch anything

Greetings and thanks

[krampak]

But I'm not sure what value to leave for v core and fsb. What would be the optimal values for v core and fsb, and do I have to touch the memory? They are ddr2 kingstom X at 800 mhz

There is no optimal value, every PC is different and only by trying little by little will you see which overclock is best for your machine (the one that doesn't require a drastic change in vcore to go up a few more Mhz).
Start by slowly increasing the FSB and testing stability, leave the memory at the same or lower speed than the factory speed to find the limit of your CPU, playing with the divisors. Once it becomes unstable, increase the vcore a little, always controlling the temperatures under full load and repeat the procedure.
You will have read all this in any guide you have looked at...

[lolly]

Thanks, as you say I started to try.

This is what I have set up to see how you see it because with the FSB at 400 it doesn't start up it gives me a blue screen.

Ai overclok manual
cpu ratio 09,0
fsb freq 370
pci e freq 100
fsb strap to nort … auto
dram freqency ddr2 961 ( it is the value I took with the FSB at 400 according to how I move the FSB it changes, now it will be somewhat lower I forgot to write it down)
dram timing auto

All the rest of the options are all on auto.

What things could I have done wrong? and when I have it where in theory I am going to leave it as a test and monitor the temperatures, I have installed Everest but I don't know why I don't get the temperatures.

[lolly]

I keep testing and I already have the computer at almost 3.4 ghz
With Everest now on the desktop with 2 webs open and little more it gives me these temperatures:
processor 37
motherboard 28
cp1: 48
cpu 2: 46
Are they good or are they a little high?
regards

[lolly]

@lolly:

I keep testing and I already have the computer almost at 3.4 ghz

With everest now on the desktop with 2 webs open and little more it gives me these temperatures:

processor 37
motherboard 28
cp1: 48
cpu 2: 46

Are they good or are they a little high?
greetings

I just cleaned the heatsink and the fan it has but the temperatures don't go down, does everest mark well? how do you see them, are they high, at idle those temperatures? I ran the other one a little and saw that it marked 86 degrees at some point and I stopped it just in case, I got a few errors in about 2 minutes

[lolly]

Can nobody help me out? I'm worried I'm going to mess things up, I've been lowering the v core all afternoon and the temperature isn't budging

[Sylver]

Do you have the stock cooler and fan? I mean, the cheap one that comes with the processor?

[lolly]

@Sylver:

Do you have the stock cooler and fan? I mean, the cheap one that comes with the processor?

Thanks for responding, well I think not, but I'm not one hundred percent sure because I didn't build the computer, it has a gray metal heatsink that could be the stock one and then on top of that it has a black fan that I think isn't the stock one, I'll see if I can find a picture of the stock one on the internet to see if it is or not.

By the way, as you can see, the temperature is something that worries me a lot, before the batelfield, the cores were getting over 60 degrees

regards and thanks

[Sylver]

If it is a square block about 4 fingers high at most, it will be the standard one with almost 99% certainty, or an alternative one that is very cheap, placed in an effort to improve cooling but without much knowledge.

60 degrees is not bad at all for the OC it has, although it could/should be less.
But of course, 86 degrees is a dangerous temperature, so if it is stable, either improve the cooling (which is almost certainly what it is) or lower the OC to reduce temperature.

Regards

[lolly]

@Sylver:

If it's a square block about 4 fingers high at most, it will be the standard one almost 99% for sure, or an alternative very cheap one placed in an effort to improve cooling but without much knowledge.

60 degrees is not bad at all for the OC it has, although it could/should be less.
But certainly, 86 degrees is a dangerous temperature, so if it's stable, either improve the cooling (almost certainly that's it) or lower the OC to reduce temperature.

Regards

Right now the overclock is very low, 10 percent, and look at the temperatures I have... I think something I've changed is wrong.
What is the default vcore because I set it to 1.28 (I've been lowering it from 1.30) but I can't find the default value, it shows me the minimum and maximum value but not the original.

Let's see if I can fix it, if not, tomorrow or the day after I'll take some photos of the fan, heatsink and the bios as I left it

[Sylver]

Reset the BIOS, and it will apply the default values.

Because to OC under conditions you need a heatsink and a fan much better than the one that comes with the system, something more efficient in heat dissipation, otherwise it's taking life from the micro, many often fry because of this type of experiment…
Put those photos when you can, we will clear up doubts, although everything points to it being the stock heatsink.

Regards

[lolly]

@Sylver:

Reset the BIOS, and it will apply the default values.

Because to OC in conditions you need a heatsink and a fan much better than the one that comes with it, something more efficient in heat dissipation, otherwise it's taking life from the micro, many usually fry because of this type of experiments…
Put those photos when you can, we will clear up doubts, although everything points to it being the stock heatsink.

Regards

I don't know how to reset it lol, I will continue lowering v core to see and see if I can take photos
thanks

[Sylver]

Easy, you have three ways:

1- By connecting a jumper from the motherboard that is usually next to the BIOS chip or next to the battery. In the legend of the board it will be clearly stated, it usually says CLEAR CMOS.

2- By removing the battery from the motherboard and leaving it for about 5 minutes without it (it is advisable to remove the power from the power supply and press the tower's power button a few times)

3- By entering the BIOS itself and (usually on the right side) selecting the option "Load setup default" or something very similar.

Greetings

[lolly]

@Sylver:

Easy, you have three ways:

1- By connecting a jumper from the motherboard that is usually next to the BIOS chip or next to the battery. In the legend of the plate it will be clearly stated, it usually says CLEAR CMOS.

2- By removing the battery from the motherboard and leaving it for about 5 minutes without it (it is advisable to remove the power from the power supply and press the power button of the tower several times)

3- By entering the BIOS itself and (usually on the right side) selecting the "Load setup default" option or something very similar.

Regards

Thanks I opted for the last option which puts almost everything on auto, enters into windws and I looked at the temperatures, they barely dropped 1 degree at rest approximately, that is to say that either it measures the temperatures wrong or without oc they are more or less the same as with oc, I have raised it a little again and it hardly varies.

Tomorrow I will take some photos and you tell me, in principle if it does not exceed 60 degrees or so when playing I should not have more problems no? I say this because I will be playing this weekend, and I am looking at a decent heatsink, do you recommend any good and economic one?

[Sylver]

Note that coming from being OCed and turned on all the time the temperature hardly varies, it's better to wait a couple of hours for it to reset and cool down completely. Another important detail is the dirt, although I think you mentioned earlier that you cleaned the heatsink.

Leave it with the default BIOS tonight and in the morning start up and check how those temps are.

As for the heatsink this one for example is good: Scythe Katana III SCKTN-3000 Fan/Cooler
Although personally I don't like the design too much, only its price and its performance, so I would build this one, which has a very, very good performance: Scythe Ninja 3 SCNJ-3000 Fan/Cooler

Surely the colleagues agree with me that with something cheaper you can already pass perfectly, besides if it's a mild OC you don't need to invest excessively in a heatsink, although since the equipment itself came out for free, what less than to spend something on keeping it cared for, you can get a lot out of that micro.

PD: I don't know how you have the memories, but it's important that you also have them synchronous with the micro, or in a stable relationship, that is already going to try, but I mention it because I don't know if you are controlling them at the same time.

Regards

[lolly]

@Sylver:

Note that coming from being OCed and turned on all the time, the temperature doesn't change much, so it's better to wait a couple of hours for it to reset and cool down completely. Another important detail is the dirt, although I think you mentioned earlier that you cleaned the heatsink.

Leave it with the default BIOS tonight and start it up tomorrow morning to check how those temps are.

As for the heatsink, this one works well for example: Scythe Katana III SCKTN-3000 Fan/Cooler
Although personally I don't like the design very much, only its price and performance, so I would build this one, which has a very good performance: Scythe Ninja 3 SCNJ-3000 Fan/Cooler

Surely the colleagues agree with me that with something cheaper you can already pass perfectly, besides if it's a mild OC you don't need to invest excessively in a heatsink, although since the equipment itself came out for free, what less than to spend something on keeping it cared for, you can get a lot out of that micro.

PD: I don't know how you have the memory, but it's important that you also have it synchronized with the micro, or in a stable relationship, that's already going to try, but I mention it because I don't know if you're controlling them at the same time.

Regards

Thanks again for your help
I'm going to look at the heatsinks to see if I find those same ones a bit cheaper, I suppose to put them I have to remove one and put another, right? I'm a bit of a newbie…

The computer didn't come out for free hehe I bought it about 4 years ago or so

The issue with the memory is what I'm having the most trouble with, because no matter how many tutorials I read I don't understand anything. I have some DDR2 800 Kingston Hyper X. In the BIOS, as I increase the FSB of the micro, the memory goes up alone, if I have the FSB at stock, the memory is at 800, as I increase it, the memory also goes up alone, if I set the FSB to 400, the memories go over 900 and won't let me enter the values I want, so if I lower it, it goes down to 700 high, looking around the forum I saw some templates for my micro, but they didn't match my memories, if there was any template out there for my micro and with the DDR2 configuration at 800...

On the other hand, I installed the real temp and it seems to mark something less than Everest.

Now with just the forum open it marks

37 37

Distance to tj max

63 63

Minimun

37 37
maximun
42 38

thermal estatus
ok ok

This is with a slight OC, the FSB at 365, the v core at 1.144 and the ram at auto

I edit, as a newbie I had no idea what a heatsink was worth, I thought they were cheaper hehe, the katana, you don't like the design, but otherwise it's good? I don't want to spend more... what's the problem with its design?
By the way is this one cheaper not?
Scythe Katana 3 CPU Cooler, 31.07 Db, Black/Gray, 94 x 108 x 143 mm, 495 g: Amazon.es: Electronics

One last question, can you increase the rpm of the current fan? Is it recommended? So while I get a better one, I can squeeze the most out of the one I have

[Sylver]

But you were given the E8400, weren't you?

For the memories you have to look for the parameter where the synchrony/asynchrony with the FSB is set, for example:

1:1 - Synchronous
1:2 - Asynchronous

This allows the speed of the RAM to be the same as that of the FSB in Mhz (synchronous) or to work in proportion to the division that is applied (1:2, 1:4… asynchronous) thus explained in broad strokes and without details, what matters is to try one way or another to see which gives more performance to the OC, all this is explained in conditions in basic tutorials of OC.

If the memory goes up alone, you probably have it in synchronous mode (1:1) and it will go in parallel with the FSB.

Regarding the heatsinks, the design is not a problem, perhaps for the location of some components in small boxes, but I don't know if that will be your case, it is more personal opinion than anything else.
The Ninja is fine, and yes, it is the same as the one you link.

I suppose that the rpm of the fan can be increased, I don't know if your BIOS will have it by default at maximum, but with some software like Speedfan it can be regulated if your equipment allows it.

Greetings

[lolly]

@Sylver:

But they gave you the E8400, didn't they?

For the memory, you have to look for the parameter where the synchronization/asynchronization with the FSB is set, for example:

1:1 - Synchronous
1:2 - Asynchronous

This allows the RAM speed to be the same as the FSB in Mhz (synchronous) or to work in proportion to the division applied (1:2, 1:4… asynchronous) so explained broadly and without details, what matters is to try one way or another to see which gives more performance to the OC, all this is explained in conditions in basic OC tutorials.

If the memory goes up alone, you probably have it in synchronous mode (1:1) and it will go in parallel with the FSB.

Regarding the heatsinks, the design is not a problem, perhaps for the location of some components in small boxes, but I don't know if that will be your case, it's more personal opinion than anything else.
The Ninja is good, and yes, it's the same one you link.

I suppose that the rpm of the fan can be increased, I don't know if your BIOS will have it by default at maximum, but with some software like Speedfan it can be regulated if your equipment allows it.

Greetings

No, they didn't give it to me, I bought everything where it was cheaper and then a colleague of my uncle at his work assembled it for me charging me for the labor.

So the memory thing is fine if it goes up alone and it's because it's in sync then I'll let it go up, so does an 800 memory hold well over 900?

Then I'll buy that heatsink, my case is big the typical gamer one, I hope I don't have a problem, anyway let's see if while I can increase the current fan, I have the PCU fan installed but I don't know how to increase it hehe I have it to measure temperatures but it measures them very high it's not very reliable, in the BIOS there is an option that is disabled and when you activate it 3 modes are activated and one is the turbo and it refers to the fan, do I activate that turbo?

thanks

[Sylver]

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Perdona, me confundí entonces con otro hilo de un micro regalado.

No sé como la tendrás y si va bien o no, eso es cuestión de probarlo, mirar temperaturas y pasar tests de estrés para ver si es estable. Pero te digo desde ya que con el disipador de serie estás jugando con fuego, yo no tocaría nada sin reemplazarlo.

Depende de la opción de la BIOS, puede ser una pequeña configuración de OC preestablecida, un OC muy leve que aumenta el rendimiento muy poco, o que efectivamente sea el regulador del ventilador, si se refiere al CPU FAN ahí lo tienes.

Saludos