Is this a safe overclock for a 2.4C?

[Naruto]

I currently have it at 3.3ghz (275x12) w/ dual channel 366mhz 512mb memory. The vcore is set to 1.525V(default), but the reading in the bios is 1.48V. I am using the 3:2 ratio. The motherboard is an Abit IS7-E and my temps are between 40 to 46C idle, kinda hot where I live currently.

 

[Shimmishim]

I think you are perfectly fine...

you wanna try for more?



3.3 at default is pretty darn good!

 

[FPSguy]

It would be nicer to have temps in the 30s but that is probably liveable. Run Prime95 on it. If it doesn't get errors and the temps don't get too high with Prime95, you probably are in good shape (depending on how you use the computer). A lot of people don't even care if it can run Prime95 (though most here do).

That IS a nice overclock at 1.525. I wish mine could do that at 1.525.

 

[Jeff7181]

The thing about Prime 95 is I've found that it'll catch even slight instability. I know a few people say their CPU will run Prime 95 just fine, but lock up when they encode video or something. But I've never had problems with instability if a CPU will run Prime 95 forever... I have found out though that there are certain intervals where my CPU's have become unstable. For example... if the RAM is very unstable, it errors out right away, if it's a little more stable, it takes 4 minutes to error out, if it's still not quite stable it takes 7 minutes. If it runs longer than 7 minutes, I've never had problems with RAM stability. As far as CPU stability, errors either show up within the first 2 minutes, just before 1 hour, just after 2 hours, right around 4 hours, just after 7 hours, or never.

 

[Naruto]

Overclocking doesn't raise temps that much. From 3ghz to 3.3ghz, I think it was only about 1 or 2C increase in temperature. While it was at 3.2ghz, it was able to do a dvd9 to dvd5 compress (7.7gb to 4.6gb) w/ deep analysis in dvdshrink in about 29 minutes. Is that a good time?

 

[Naruto]

I backed it down to 3.24ghz because I think my memory can't take it too high. I plan to use this computer to do video encoding. My bandwith is around 5230MB/s in sandra. Will upping my memory bandwith show noticeable improvement to video encoding times?

 

[porkbun]

Originally posted by: Naruto
I backed it down to 3.24ghz because I think my memory can't take it too high. I plan to use this computer to do video encoding. My bandwith is around 5230MB/s in sandra. Will upping my memory bandwith show noticeable improvement to video encoding times?

Could you increase the timings of your memory to make it stable? You would want to keep it at 3.3 GHz for faster video encoding.