Dodgy E8400?

Matt_91

Matt_91

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Bought an E8400 and a Gigabyte EP45-DS4P yesterday and just thought I'd do a small overclock just for starters while running on stock cooling. I changed the bus speed from 333 to 350, that's about a 5% overclock and I figured I wouldn't have to alter the VCore or anything else like that. When I boot into Windows, it freezes. I try again, it doesn't feeze and then I run OCCT, it gets 25 seconds in, it freezes. I return to 333 and now it's working perfectly.

Have I done something else wrong? Surely it should be able to handle a 5% OC without upping the voltage.
 
Hmm, that's a good point, I could always put my 667 RAM in it and try with that because I was able to get a 30% overclock with my E4400 in my last setup.

I'll try that out and let you know how I go.

Edit: Thanks a lot. My old RAM seems to overclock fine with this setup. I never really thought it was worth trying the RAM because it was such a small overclock. Nice to know I bought quicker RAM for nothing
 
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It's a pretty standard DIMM of RAM. The model number is KVR800D2N6/1G. It's 1.8v

The funny thing is, my old 667 RAM that lets me overclock is the exact same model, except it's the 667 version. I'll buy some better overclocking RAM later in the year.
 
worth a try. I was able to overclock the 667 RAM up to 800 which I didn't think was bad as it's fairly basic stuff
 
RMA your new ram, its worthless, and obviously defective. even cas latency 5 ddr800 should easily and consistently get to 850mhz.
 
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