Need help Overclocking an E4300

[Aeridyne]

I just got an E4300 and an EVGA 650i motherboard

I have no clue what to do next.... It boots fine, i can access the memory timings, the memory frequency, and fsb frequency and cpu multiplier

the fsb and memory freq. can run in unlinked mode

The fsb shows up as 800 and i can only change this value, it seems to work off the total of what the multiplier is, not the base value ( I don't really get how the fsb and the multiplier and the actual clock relate...)

I just wanted to take it to 2.4 since most E4300 seem to be able to run there all day stable if I'm not mistaken, on stock cooling

I just wanted some help so that i don't fry something or overclock my pci or agp or something dumb like that

As for my RAM i have crucial ballistix 800 (2x 1gb) and i can run it stock at either 4-4-4-12 2T or 5-5-5-15 1T stable. I would like to find a nice little overclock that i can run it a little faster at one of these timings, i tried 850 with the 4 and 2t timings and memtest got errors though?

 

[o1die]

I would locate the cmos jumper first. It resets the bios in case your overclocked settings cause a no post situation. Some boards even have a forced reboot mode that automatically resets a bad setting to get the board to post. Try 1066 fsb for the cpu and bump the cpu voltage up to 1.3. Your board may have automatic memory ratios that will kick in for overclocking. If not, you may have to use a lower setting for memory such as 667 or 4:5 ratio, depending on the selection.

 

[hurtstotalktoyou]

Start by pumping up the bus from 200/800 to 266/1066 MHz. That should get you to 2.4 GHz without any troubles. Before you do this, though, assuming your BIOS works like my 965P-S3, you'll need to lock down the PCIe bus to 100 MHz and the memory multiplier to 2x. Also, be sure to check that the PCI/IDE/SATA busses aren't running any faster than normal; this might be automatic.

After that, just creep it up, maybe 10/40 MHz at a time, testing with Orthos as you go. You may need to raise voltages on your CPU, northbridge, and possibly your memory, as well. Be careful with those.

If your system dies, just open it up and reset the BIOS jumper, then start over.

 

[Aeridyne]

Originally posted by: hurtstotalktoyou
Start by pumping up the bus from 200/800 to 266/1066 MHz. That should get you to 2.4 GHz without any troubles. Before you do this, though, assuming your BIOS works like my 965P-S3, you'll need to lock down the PCIe bus to 100 MHz and the memory multiplier to 2x. Also, be sure to check that the PCI/IDE/SATA busses aren't running any faster than normal; this might be automatic.

After that, just creep it up, maybe 10/40 MHz at a time, testing with Orthos as you go. You may need to raise voltages on your CPU, northbridge, and possibly your memory, as well. Be careful with those.

If your system dies, just open it up and reset the BIOS jumper, then start over.

Ok, i did the fsb jump to 1066, she boots fine at 2.4 and i ran memtest through 2x without any trouble, my ram did get a little hot though... I made a couple fan mounts for it last night to help that.

The board has an unlinked mode for the ram so the ram speed is independent, which is good because puzzlingly i tried to take it from 4.4.4.12-2t 800mhz to the same @ 850 and i got memory errors?

As for the pci bus and and pci-e bus, i have no idea how to lock those down so i don't know what is happening with those (how can i check? I don't want to fry my drives or something)