First time OC ever

porterjw

porterjw

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So, I was fooling around with a new MoBo (Gigabyte P31 DS3L) and started looking around in BIOS. Never OC'd before and am really not into it, but figured I'd give it a shot. Played with a few settings, upped the Bus speed, and got this:

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Stock D 940 is 3.2Gh. I got this up to 4.1Gh and it was stable :) Didn't play with voltage or anything crazy either. Stopped after this because I had over things to do. Really not that into it, but it was kinda of fun :)
 
Damn, ya know what, I didn't even think to run speedfan :( If matters any, immediately after playing around for a bit, I was in BIOS doing other stuff and noticed a 46*C CPU temp. This was maybe 35-45 seconds after I hit 'Restart'

was using the Cooler Master Elite 330, AS-5, and a Masscool heatsink.
 
That's about 1GHZ without changing your Voltage. That's... euhm... pretty nice? Try to run 3dmark 06 or Prime95 I doubt it is stable. It is recommended that you boost your Voltage with 0.025V each 5FSB you go up. And try to check your temps with Everest.

Zangetsu
 
Zangetsu said:
That's about 1GHZ without changing your Voltage. That's... euhm... pretty nice? Try to run 3dmark 06 or Prime95 I doubt it is stable. It is recommended that you boost your Voltage with 0.025V each 5FSB you go up. And try to check your temps with Everest.

Zangetsu
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Well, unfortunately, It'll be tricky to try it again. The board was nice, but still not exactly what I wanted (I'm *super* picky about some things, MoBo's being one of them I'm finding out - I blame it on the OCD), so I said 'screw it, I already have a decent board that I've learned to somewhat love, I'll just stick with that'. I reinstalled the original and really don't feel like going through all that again. I have 28 days still to return the new board, so maybe in a week or two I'll feel like playing around again.

And when I said stable, I meant I was using it as normal; browsing the web, multiple programs open.

I should have left it for a bit. Oh well, hindsight is 20/20 :P If I do swap out again, I'll make sure to have speedfan running and do the load test.
 
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