Overclocking Help

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Zorrowannabe9

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Okay, I have been playing with my bios for roughly 6 hours today and so far have gotten virtually no where (IMO). All I was able to accomplish was setting the AI Overclock settings on my motherboard to +20% (bringing my cpu speed up to 2.88ghz). I would like to push my CPU further, and was hoping on getting around 3.5Ghz, how can i accomplish this? My computer rig specs are in the signature. If theres anything else you need to know please just ask, I would appreciate ANY help that can be provided. I have read the "Overclock 101" guide numerous times and still find myself rather lost. Heres is a couple screens of what its currently running at (with the 20% set):

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EDIT: I suppose my main question, is how do i know when I need more power going to the CPU, when i need to adjust the timings of the RAM etc. I know how to bump up the FSB and then my core clock goes up, but it crashes after windows boots...
 
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one question i have is why do you have the FSB:DRAM ration at 2:3? i dont know too much about the new ddr2 memory but it seems like that bus speed of 319 is high.? can you increase the cpu multiplier? i need to learn more about the ddr2 and core 2 duo
 
Well I put everything back at stock, could anyone tell me what I need to set to what in order to OC to around 3.4Ghz?

at Stock the multiplier is set to 9 (max) and the Bus speed is at 266.7Mhz and the Rated FSB is at 1066.7Mhz

Memory frequency is at 400Mhz
 
1)set manual overclock
2) set a 1:1, bus:ram ratio
3)increase bus speed by 10
4)reboot into windows

repeat this until reboot into windows fails, then bump up the vcore as little as possible and boot into windows again. if you cant again, then raise vcore as little as possible again and reboot and repeat 1-4 etc.

raise vcore only when needed as little as possible!!!

(and your RAM speed on your first OC was very high; you multiply what CPUz tells you by 2 to get 960 which corsair can handle but that was why your OC wasnt successful. and never do automatic OC)
 
just did, it booted with a very long "beeeeep" noise. Does this mean that th Vcore is too low? or are my memory timings off? Should I set those manually? At the moment they are set to auto.
 
what are all of your settings now. and did it boot into windows? set the timings manually and loose to like 5-5-5-15
 
1t or 2t? and when i trie the ratio was 1:1 with the FSB set to 1077 (10 more than stock). It never loaded windows or even the BIOS, just started up and went BEEEEP (after hitting F10 to save and exit it locked up so i reboot it and it came up with that beep, the next reboot it didn't beep)
 
ok clear your CMOS and start anew

timings, ratio set those and make sure ram voltages are correct and everything else is stock (which it will be)

you are missing something, only set the 5-5-5-15 and nothing else, this happened with me on my first OC, 6 times i had to clear the CMOS before i was on my way to victory
 
How do I clear my CMOS, while reading the manual for my mobo it says that it will automatically reset it if there is a boot failure during overclocking. It doesn't appear that it ever reset, nor does it appear that the overclock took effect (still says 2.4Ghz in Bios). I believe that clearing the CMOS might help, I may have just set something badly, who knows. How do I reset it?
 
there is a three pin jumper thing and you move it to the other two pins for seconds and put it back on after 5 seconds
 
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