[DarkSamus]

Help! I have no idea what I am doing and have everything ready to oc my machine!

I only want to push it a little. Mostly I am trying to get better speeds with pcsx2. At the moment I am getting about 80% speed in pcsx2

I have a Q9400, Gigabyte P43-DS3L and a Big Typhoon Cooler for the job!

Can anyone give my some lessons in OCing?

 

[Gossamer]

woah, you've got the same board I do ...

cept mine is p35.

ANYHOO.

Google is good for this sort of thing but for lack of better circumstances; OC in 200mhz increments. Keep tabs on how hot your CPU runs on full load and run benchmark programs like Prime95 and Superpi to make sure you are stable; I'd say around 30 minutes to be sure. After you've reached what you'd call "not wanting to kill your PC", benchmark for a good hour or just get lost in a game of Crysis for a few hours or so or until your PC starts to hate you(i.e. begins to show signs of screen flickering, you get high temperatures-around 65 degrees C, windows errors; things of this nature.)

After any of that happens, back down about 100mhz.
Enjoy.

 

[Phil]

What cooler do you have?

 

[DarkSamus]

Thermaltake Big Typhoon Cooler

And here are its specs!

 

[Gossamer]

he's all set, Phil.

 

[DarkSamus]

Indeed. I am working on it now!

You said to go up in 200mhz increments, but its only at 333mhz now.
200mhz would be too big of a jump am I right?

 

[Phil]

LOL the FSB is 333 mhz, not the speed lol.

up the fsb by 5 mhz increments

 

[22point8]

Try this Gigabyte P965-XXX overclocking and BIOS tweaking Guide - [H]ard|Forum the bios is the same as yours.

 

[DarkSamus]

thanx guys

 

[Master_DX]

How far are u willing to OC. Download RealTemp and monitor ur temps at Full load to see if it is safe to OC.

 

[DarkSamus]

I am looking to get a stable 3ghz!

 

[Gossamer]

by 200mhz intervals I meant.

2.4-2.6-2.8-3.0-3.2-oh-shi!!

back it up!

...3.19...damn
3.18.....damn
3.17...wait a minute here!
3.16..

PAYDIRT!

Just how I do things. I like even numbers.

 

[Phil]

You sound like a drill sergeant lol

 

[DarkSamus]

I have a stable 3.2GHZ at the moment!:thumb:

By stable I mean it is running pcsx2 fine! Still need to get some tools to test it fully

 

[DarkSamus]

Just ran 3D mark and got a score just shy of 14,000

@3.2GHZ I so far have had no probs and temps are not going above 61 degrees celsius

 

[cooliscool]

Congrats on the new hw. Really nice upgrade from your AMD. Probably going to end up going with a quad pretty soon, this old E4300's showing its age despite it outlasting (in terms of time : performance) every other CPU I've owned.

I'd wager that 3.2GHz is hardly what that chip's capable of. Keep us posted.

 

[Gossamer]

Oh and, try your darnedest not to overdo your motherboard's maximum FSB.
That is a killah!

 

[DarkSamus]

Thanx mate, It was indeed time for an upgrade!
The old AMD 6000+ was struggling to do high end emulation!

I tend to agree with you in regards to how much it can be pushed. Just am unsure as to whether I should seems I need 2 years out of it!
3.2GHZ was achieved without a hitch at all!

After a reboot I actually noticed that temps are now not going over 25 even when running pcsx2 or creating a DVD with NeroVision!
I am honestly stunned by this! Right now with just firefox running its only 18 degrees

Max FSB on this MB is 1600mhz (According to the box) so I should be fine I think!

 

[Gossamer]

mine is 1333... So much for my 3.5ghz shoot to the moon. I run it at 1334 so it doesn't stay at 2.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999ghz

 

[Phil]

Congrats on the new hw. Really nice upgrade from your AMD. Probably going to end up going with a quad pretty soon, this old E4300's showing its age despite it outlasting (in terms of time : performance) every other CPU I've owned.

I'd wager that 3.2GHz is hardly what that chip's capable of. Keep us posted.

I'm with you there. I'm getting a Q9650 (My last Core 2 chip)