E8400 E0 Stepping. Got it to 4.1Ghz

[CRAZYCAP]

Hi Guys! Bit bored today so i tried overclocking my E8400 a bit further on my EP45-UD3P motherboard. Would appreciate some feedback on the results of the run. 456x9 (4.1Ghz) overclock setting and I have run prime 95 for 1 day with a Idle temp of 32deg and Max temp reading of 54deg. The FSB reading is 1824Mhz.

System :-

Antec 900 Case (xigmatek fans with side fan for graphics card)

Gigabyte EP45-UD3P Motherboard

E8400 E0 stepping

thermaltake SpinQ CPU cooler

Ballistix tracer 800Mhz memory

Sapphire 5850

Creative X-Fi PCI-E soundcard

Huntkey 900W P/S

Would you guys say that this a safe 24x7 overclock?

 

[siravarice]

Really good temps dude! You could probably go even further! Set a limit of 65-70 degrees for the CPU at full load and see what you can get.

 

[AMDFTW]

yer fella try and get to 4.4-4.5Ghz,as it is achevble fella,if you hit a wall try lowering you RAM speed in the BIOS

 

[Spence]

Well done mate.

 

[CRAZYCAP]

Hi Guys - For some reason I today started getting a BSOD in Windows 7 64bit. The Blue screen was to do with fltmgr.sys (never seen this one before). Anyway I backed off the overclock a bit to 4050Mhz and seems fine now.

Question is - Does this mean I have reached my Max stable or is there something else I can tweak?

thanks in advance guys.

 

[AMDFTW]

Lower you Ram speed in the BIOS fella you should be ok then

 

[Steve-O-]

Yea your RAM is your prob most likely. I ran into that with my Q6700 and had to unlink my ram from the fsb. I put the ram at stock speeds and all was good after that.

 

[CRAZYCAP]

Hi Guys, Firstly thankyou to everyone that has given advise. I have done what everyone has suggested and I am now stable at 4.1GHZ with Prime 95 running for 24hrs. The maximum temp report (and I was very impressed) was 49deg on both cores.

I am 1 very happy overclocker atm. Thank again EVERYONE!.

 

[AMDFTW]

was you not stable at 4.1 before?

your temps seem good,try and keep them around 60-65c FULL load,so you are ok ATM

you should be able to reach 4.4-4.5Ghz once you have lowerd ur RAM

 

[CRAZYCAP]

Hi Guys

For Crucial Ballistics DDR2 800, how do i change the timings and what setting would you suggest. The Mobo is a Gigabyte EP45-UD3P.

 

[CRAZYCAP]

I Just realised that the RAM setting in the BIOS was on 'Extreme'. I just changed it to 'Standard' and things seem more stable.

 

[Steve-O-]

There should be an area called Memory Timings. Make sure you set them to your RAMs timings. There should be a sticker on the ram that tells you the timings.

 

[JN]

Very nice OC mate. You might even be able to push a little more out of it. I've got an e8400 running at 4.2ghz in a HTPC case. So providing you've got a fairly good chip and cooling the sky is the limit

 

[CRAZYCAP]

Hi Jim, Thanks for that. Thanks to everyone that has replied to my post. Much appreciated. I am pretty happy with the overclock. Steve-O, I have confirmed in the bios that the memory timings are a perfect match 4-4-4-12 2.0V.

Thanks again guys.

 

[Miikkii]

Wow big deal you got it to 4.1Ghz, pretty much everyone can get it up to that its quite easy on the 8400! Its a really good overclocker.

Good job though.

 

[AMDFTW]

dont flame him dude,evryone can get to certain levels and find some things easy and some things more harder

 

[Miikkii]

It wasn't intended like that.