Overclocking E6500 on P43DE

Lioonmane

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Hey guys I'm new to this forum and was recommended by a friend for advice and entertainment (Unboxing, guides etc).

I just built my first gaming rig and know little about overclocking. Literally all I know is that you multiply your FSB with your multiplier to get your processing speed, also you need lowest voltage possible (but I hear horror stories about people changing voltages and destroying processors so I haven't touched them yet). I presume you don't need to know my computer spec because it should be below the post??

Anyway, I went into BIOS and my motherboard has a built in OC Tweaker. I went on it and changed my FSB to 281Mhz with a multiplier of 11. I haven't changed any Voltages or the ram or anything I just changed those two settings and CPU-Z says I'm now overclocked to 3.1 GHz. I have the stock CPU cooler and 4x120mm case fans.

Stock temps are 40 degrees for both cores. I have ran Prime 95 for 10mins and core0 runs at about 53 and core1 at 46 average. I measured these with SpeedFan (is that acurate enough?)

Now you know that, I would like to know how hard I can push this rig without advanced cooling, I know it won't be much but I plan to get Watercooling soon and hope to of learn't the basics so I can then push the rig even more. I would like to be able to overclock the CPU and RAM sucessfully.

I play World of Warcraft most the time, but I do play games like COD BO, MW2, MW...and I would like to be able to have that little bit of extra playing power.

Thank you for all your help and I will return regularly to check for posts
 
On your overclocking issue, no, the spec isn't displayed beneath your post, matey, it's in the profile page. Overclocking your CPU won't give you such an edge in games as overclocking your GPU would. Now you're lucky here because the 4650 could pull out stonking clocks. If you just go into catalyst and see what you can do, maybe google a guide or two.

For example:

As you know its there I will asume you know how to get to it in the CCC, actually for the sake of it its the last one in the drop down menu top left where it says Graphics.

Open it up and tick the box for Enable ATI Overdrive.

Auto tune will itself determine a set of clocks its happy to run at, the screen will go all red/green/yellow and this could last 5 mins or so while it tests the clocks.

Thats low level Overclocking and usually the cards will run faster. Next step is to increase the speed by pushing the sliders to the right but only go 10mhz at a time then click on test clocks. Do the memory first then when that fails the last setting that worked is your max for the memory.

Set the Memory back to normal and do the same thing with the Core, Move the slider 10Mhz and test.

Once you have found the best setting for the Core you should put the memory back up to where that was and retest with both clocks at the highest settings you got before it didnt work.

Next stage is to test with something like 3Dmark06 and play some games. this is to test for stability.

If you ask me a better idea to watercooling would be a system upgrade as it's just not worth it to spend more money on such an outdated rig IMHO. You can get pretty good 1156/1155 deals right now, I'd check them out.
 
Hey buddy thanks for the reply. With the auto clocking feature, I assume that the auto-clock will take into account the heat that will be created by the graphics card and will determined whether or not it will work under stress???

Yeah I suppose but I don't have the money at the moment to pay out for that spec unfortunately. But as time passes, the machine shall be upgraded bit by bit
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