Overclocking Estimations

linkin

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Once my mobo gets back and everything is up and running (probably tomorrow)
I want to do some OCing. For this reason i bought a zalman CNPS700C-ALCU
for use with my E4500. I'm using IC7 paste because my AS-5 was smashed upon arrival. I will also be flashing my BIOS to get the OCing options available. If not i'll use ClockGen or something.
See sig for the rest of my specs. I was just wondering what you guys think I would be able to OC my E4500 to. I'm hoping to get it to 3.0ghz without a voltage increase. Its' stock speed is 2.2ghz, it has an 800mhz FSB and i think the multiplier is 11x.
 

just a noob

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if its anything like my e5200 is, you should be able to get 3ghz without much of a bump(i managed 3.75ghz on my e5200 with 1.3 :D)
 

linkin

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hmm... how should i overclock? with the FSB or multiplier? I heard that the multiplier is better, and it only overclocks the CPU, not everything like the FSB does... But if i use the FSB my whole system will be faster if it's stable :)
 

linkin

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OK, if my CPU's multiplier is 11, then 11 x 200 = 2200(mhz). That's the stock speed.
I think 11 x 205 = 2310(mhz) would be a good starting point. That's only a 110mhz overclock though. If I could get to 2.6ghz - 2.8ghz without using the FSB, and only upping voltage by a tiny bit, I would be happy.
What do you guys think?
 
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just a noob

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doesn't work like that, you have to use the fsb to overclock, voltage doesn't affect clock speed in any way(other than stability)
 

lovely?

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OK, if my CPU's multiplier is 11, then 11 x 200 = 2200(mhz). That's the stock speed.
I think 11 x 205 = 2310(mhz) would be a good starting point. That's only a 110mhz overclock though. If I could get to 2.6ghz - 2.8ghz without using the FSB, and only upping voltage by a tiny bit, I would be happy.
What do you guys think?

actually need to bump the fsb without touching the voltage ;)

but you should be able to do that easily, most intel dual cores will clock to around 3.0ghz on stock volts.

EDIT: now that i think about it, my e4500 would do 3.0ghz on stock volts with 10X300.
 
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linkin

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Cool, I either need to flash my BIOS to non-OEM or use ClockGen to be able to overclock...
Any advice on flashing the BIOS? I'm thinking about making a backup of the OEM version.
 
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