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HURRIC4NE

HURRIC4NE

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i bought a factory default everyday computer back in the end of 2010...
it was a Dell i580-510NBC

specs: i5-650 3.2Ghz (24X locked) (2C 4T)
(4x2gb) ddr3 1066 1.5V
1 TB seagate barracuda sata 2 7200rpm

before buying it i was a tech noob, but now i consider myself a somewhat novice/intermediate

i didnt want to spend much money for upgrades so last month i got myself
Corsair H100 Liquid Cooling
Thermeltake Chaser MK-I
Corsair TX650 PSU
Asus 7850


since i brought the liquid cooling kit from corsair, i really wanted to OC the hell out of this CPU since im sure my GPU will benefit from it, i play a lot of games in 1080P resolution cause my moniter can support it (BF3, MW3, Crysis 2)

but apparantly my bios has NO OPTION of overclocking cpu at all since its factory default, i did some googling and found out SetFSB, i have currently used this tool to OC my cpu from 3.2 to 3.4 Stable no probs whatsoever, i dont have to see the temps cause it NEVER goes above 39C even in the most extraneous work..

however whenever i try to get past that 3.5 mark, i always crash... from what i have diagnosed myself.. i think its the mhz of my ram, since its only 1066 and SetFsb is OC it to 1200 when i increase the bclock (remember this is the noob ram, with the pcb sticking out and stuff) so i was wondering if i could upgrade my ram to 1600 mhz corsair vengence and what not, could i go higher?, also is there a way i can increase the CPU Voltage in SetFsb or in any other app? i really want to aim for a 4.8 ghz with this motherboard since i really dont wanna buy a socket 1156 motherboard since its out of date now, and i will be upgrading everything when Haswell arrives (since ivy bridge is the end of sandy bridge microarchitecture, i wanna see the haswell architecture lol)

any help would be greatly appreciated, please excuse my english lol
 
As far as I know OEM motherboards are not capable of overclock. I'm not sure if this applies to every OEM motherboards but the ones that I own and used in the past doesn't allow it. Even if it did, you're probably playing with the max turbo frequency instead which is about 3.46GHz. It might not even give you voltage adjustments to allow for higher overclock. Add to that the motherboard might not even hold up to the strain of additional power required, it was not designed to do so.

I would call what you've just bought an excessive spending as you could easily squeeze in a LGA1156 motherboard if you've resorted to a cheaper case or an air cooler like the Noctua NH-D14, I'm well aware of the notion that you have about LGA1156 being old. 4.8GHz is too ambitious, even by SB standards only a few are able to do 4.8GHz safely.
 
I'm surprised you are able to actually adjust your fsb/bclk in the dell system. Can you verify that this is actually changing, and its not just your turbo bringing you one bin higher to around 3.5GHz?
 
You guys totally missed the point - he's overclocking from within Windows using SetFSB.

Now, I've never done this so I don't know the program settings, but there should be a way to 'disconnect' your RAM setting from the bclk you're adjusting so you don't OC your RAM at the same time (which is likely the cause of your limited OC success).

The better option would be to buy a cheapo S1156 motherboard and OC properly. Since you've already spent a fair bit of cash with the intent of overclocking, a little more shouldn't hurt too much and will let you do what you want.
 
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