Hi folks,
When I got my E6400 8 months ago I had already read up about its over-clocking abilities, so immediately I went ahead and over clocked, I admit I was a bit of a rookie at the time, but I went straight in with Bus Speed 350, Multiplier 8, 700Mhz on the DDR2.
To my utter surprise it worked. SO I have happily for the last 8 months been running a 2.8GHz system. Recently I purchased an Arctic Cooling Freezer 7, and noticing I was never getting CPU temps above 45 degrees I considered going for a slightly higher overclock. SO I started reading up on E6400 overclocking, noting people have got stable 3.2GHz systems, but that's when I got confused.
In all the articles I have read, people were saying that the VCore should be around 1.4V if you go to 2.8Ghz or above, but here is the weird thing, my ultra-reliable system that has never crashed on me once, is running 2.8Ghz on a 1.15V(BIOS) 1.12V(CPU-Z) VCore setting.
How is this possible? No wonder it is running so cool, I'm using 0.2V less than most people to clock at this speed! I admit freely that I have never done a specific stress test, but I leave the machine on 24/7 and frequently play HL2 and FEAR for periods up to 4 hours and it has NEVER crashed.
Am I just lucky it has never crashed, or are other people able to achieve these results?
When I got my E6400 8 months ago I had already read up about its over-clocking abilities, so immediately I went ahead and over clocked, I admit I was a bit of a rookie at the time, but I went straight in with Bus Speed 350, Multiplier 8, 700Mhz on the DDR2.
To my utter surprise it worked. SO I have happily for the last 8 months been running a 2.8GHz system. Recently I purchased an Arctic Cooling Freezer 7, and noticing I was never getting CPU temps above 45 degrees I considered going for a slightly higher overclock. SO I started reading up on E6400 overclocking, noting people have got stable 3.2GHz systems, but that's when I got confused.
In all the articles I have read, people were saying that the VCore should be around 1.4V if you go to 2.8Ghz or above, but here is the weird thing, my ultra-reliable system that has never crashed on me once, is running 2.8Ghz on a 1.15V(BIOS) 1.12V(CPU-Z) VCore setting.
How is this possible? No wonder it is running so cool, I'm using 0.2V less than most people to clock at this speed! I admit freely that I have never done a specific stress test, but I leave the machine on 24/7 and frequently play HL2 and FEAR for periods up to 4 hours and it has NEVER crashed.
Am I just lucky it has never crashed, or are other people able to achieve these results?
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