E7300 Overclocking problems

[RazorBlade78]

hi guys. I just got some new stuff in from the UPS the other day. So I saw that you can O/C this E7300 45nm chip without changing stock cooler to about 3.0ghz without breaking a sweat. Every time I goto overclock it, and im talking not even 100mhz more- my system either freezes up or gives me the blue screen of death While gaming. I tried upping the cpu voltage to 1.2v and all it does is freeze up. The stock setting is only 1.16v. Wouldnt the CPU CHOKE under heavy stress like gaming at that low setting. Also the ram I'm runnig is at 2.02V set in the BIOS. if i go any higher my system crashes. Do i have to change anything else to make it run at 3.0ghz or even 2.8Ghz without it bombing out every min. Kinda thinkin i should of just spent $40 more and got the E8400. But i will not spend the shipping/handling to return it. So if anyone can help me, I'd really be thankful. ASROCK P43Twins1600 is my MB. BIOS VERSION 1.9

---E7300, asrock p43twins1600 MB, 9800GT vid, 2x 1 gig ddr2 ocz platnimun 1066mhz ram. 585watt psu.

 

[JMapleton]

What are your temps? First post your temps when idle and load when you're a stock, then when you're trying to overclock.

 

[RazorBlade78]

I'm 39/c at idle and about 45/c at full load. not sure about the O/C temp. As i can't keep it stable long enough to check temps.
this is my motherboard ASROCK LINK

 

[VirtualLarry]

I would wonder about your RAM speeds. Check your FSBRAM ratio, and set it to 1:1 if you can. Also manually set your RAM timings to something conservative. 5-5-5-15 is a good start.

 

[RazorBlade78]

thanks for responding. so would changing the ram ratio help me acheive the my goal of O/C to 2.8ghz? If it does, I'll try it and see if i can actually change my ratio timming. bTW the timming is set to 5-5-5-15 by default. Thanks again.