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[TurtleCrusher]

I finally hit 3ghz with a few simple changes. I upped my Vcore to 1.28V and my memory back up to 2.06V and viola!

Its damn hot at 69-69-71-68 load, but when i game its about 60-61-64-60 @ 60% load.

 

[Kraeoss]

nice oc there man now for 3.2 lol...

 

[Flipped Gazelle]

Cool! Was that the $100 special?

 

[TurtleCrusher]

Sadly it was not. i've had it for almost 4 months now. i paid $199 or so. it still beasts every app/game i throw at it.

anyone get this high? lower? higher?

 

[double00]

So far im at 2.8Gigz
http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=554224]

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so hard to find q8200 oc.

anyone one with luck with x48 boards?

 

[ilkhan]

Mine is at 2.0Ghz with 1.025 vCore
1.00v isn't stable. The i7 920 I briefly had would do 3Ghz with 1.00v.

 

[E4300]

These chips should be able to hit 3.3GHz with a decent MB and 1.31Vcore. My IP35-E runs out of gas around 3.3GHz. The Gigabyte P45 board with good NB/PWM cooling is good up to about 3.7GHz if you have a quality chip.

 

[TurtleCrusher]

My northbridge is crazy hot with my overclock. It has a decent heatsink on it. This is quite normal, right?

 

[angry hampster]

2.06v for memory? What does it normally run at?

 

[error8]

Originally posted by: Scholzpdx
My northbridge is crazy hot with my overclock. It has a decent heatsink on it. This is quite normal, right?

Yeah it's normal, because the engineers from gigabyte, have some brain issues and have always used, for the budget boards, very little tiny heatsinks on the NB, that aren't capable to dissipate the heat as they should. I wouldn't overclock a quad on that P45 without strapping a fan on the NB. A 60mm fan should be fairly easy to attached there. Try it, since it might improve your oc.

 

[E4300]

Put a 92mm fan above the RAM and NB region. This should provide plenty of cooling to overclock a quad. No need to spend $ on big fancy heat pipe cooler.

A hot NB will result in system instability. If you cannot touch the hottest part of the heat sink for more than 30 seconds, then you need to explore active cooling option.

 

[TurtleCrusher]

Well, crazy hot was an overstatement. I could put my finger there and would be alright for 30 seconds, but it wouldn't be fun.

As for the memory, the packaging does NOT say. Other people on Newegg run it from 1.8V to 2.2V, so i'm not sure where i should be using it at.

EDIT: Newegg has it at 2.0V on their specs page. http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16820220227

 

[cubeless]

i'm @ 450 fsb on a evga 750sli ftw...

 

[double00]

Hey, finally im at 3.0 gigz tooo