Overclock for beginners

[mihalis741]

yes is 4300

[mihalis741]

i have intel dual core 1.80ghz i can to overclock this shit ? xDD

[CrAzY3AGL3]

@mihalis741 is it e4300 ?

[crrazyy]

i went from 1.8 to 1.83 woohoo. =D

[Fordje66]

@crrazyy aint much :o

[mrAshley3258]

i have a intel celeron e3300 @2.50ghz and g31t-m9 motherboard and 350 psu would i be able overclock it? if so how much do you think by?

[MrALenCar321]

i have a q8300 with stock coolers and a 450 psu!! can i overclock it to 2.93 or 3ghz without changing the fan!! if not wat cooling and psu will i need

[MN12BIRD]

@MrALenCar321 I'm not too familiar with the Q8300 but it's 45nm like this so I would think you could get to 3.0GHZ pretty easily with the stock cooler. Remember the motherboard is also a big factor in how well you can overclock.

[MrALenCar321]

@MN12BIRD thanks !

[donanobispacem1003]

thanks sir

[YeahCain2]

this is a really good tutorial! im extremely glad you went through varibles and such so now i know what the consequences are of overclocking!

most people just say go to bios, bump it slowly, your done

good job! thanks

[diego2894]

have a special cooler to make that?

[KillerRadar]

If you leave the voltage thing at [auto] wont that adjust the voltage to the CPU automatically, so that when you OC it, it will turn it up and so on?

[indemaTROY]

What am I doing different then yours? I have a E8400 (Revision E0)

I set my FPS to the same number, left everything else the same. When I hit save the PC starts up, turns off, starts up, turns off. Like 4 times. then boots up with the old stock settings, and bios tells me I had multiple failures (well duh).

img69.imageshack.us/img69/5964­/cpuzm.png = my CPU-Z page

[indemaTROY]

@indemaTROY I mean FSB. Not FPS.. Also the link when you copy doesn't work. just fix the weird letters that pop up and make it so it looks correct.

[MN12BIRD]

@indemaTROY Just because this works for me doesn't mean it works for everyone. Like I said they're all different. You might have to try bumping up the voltage a small amount over stock. You have a decent motherboard?

[indemaTROY]

@MN12BIRD Yeah I have a GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P

[snapplejacksabc]

My Pc started to randomly lag after it never laged b4

[sxnoss40]

when i go to that blue screen i cannot access the oc options. they are like locked

[TheGamesHD]

Hey i was just wondering if you could help me OC better my E8400 or ram? im a beginner too so i'd appreciate the help

[jodr666]

why is bad to overclock with generic Ram? I know they don't have the same quality but the work gets done using them in most cases..

[MN12BIRD]

@jodr666 If you can't unlock the RAM multiplier from the FSB on your motherboard your RAM might have to get bumped up with the CPU overclock and so it would have to be able to take it. Depends on the motherboard.

[darharrison]

Manufacturer:  BIOSTAR Group Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz (2 CPUs), ~3.0GHz Memory: 4096MB RAM Hard Drive: 465 GB SATAII Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT (1GB) Wattage: 500-550 Cooling: air powered (2 seporate fans, 1 for CPU, 1 for the rest) Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_rtm.090713-1255) What's the max OCing I can do without worrying about keeping it cool?

[MN12BIRD]

@darharrison Well other than the CPU the most important thing I would need to know is the motherboard model witch you didn't list also the power supply brand helps witch you also didn't list. But generally I would guess you could go to about 3.8GHZ on stock cooling without worrying too much about extra temp.

[darharrison]

@MN12BIRD between 500-550 watt power supply, idk my motherboard, it's not in the specs anywhere on my comuter

[darharrison]

@MN12BIRD thanks, OCd to 3.6!

[FubuMushu]

I've overclocked my cpu using the mulitplier only and i havent adjusted the voltages one bit. It's done automatically for the Asus board i have! Do i even need to adjust the voltages at all?

[MN12BIRD]

@FubuMushu Depends how far you overclock you'll eventually hit the point were you need to.

[MN12BIRD]

@gangsterosman112 in BIOS for Intel disable Intel Speedstep and C1E state and for AMD disable Cool n quiet.

[MageKim]

9:51 we can see the "Core Voltage" at 1.296V witch is different from the stok voltage.

Maybe your motherboard gave that adittional voltage ?

Thanks for the video.

[simolatham03]

On mine it dosent have the (M.I.T) thing is it possiable to do it without? Amd pheom II x2 3.0 Ghz if you needed to know.

[skankadoodle69]

i love the analogies used in this video. Man I'm finally starting to understand all of this. Definitely gonna try OC'ing my comp now. Slowly and steadily though ;-)

[sakisdog93]

Yes guys i am using the stock cooler, but i will buy a new one...

[EclipseMusic94]

did you use the stock cooler?

[r31ncarnat3d]

Not sure if he did, but rule of thumb: NEVER overclock with a stock cooler, they just don't cool well enough. You can buy a decent aftermarket cooler like the Xigmatek S1283 for $30

[sakisdog93]

One more think

I must change the memory multiplier?

I understand that when i increasing the FSB of CPU, i increase too the memory or something, and then i have to decrease(?) the multiplier of memory until it is stable, am I right? Or I just could change the FSB of CPU, without touching memory stuff?

[sakisdog93]

First of all, thanks for reply!

Ok, so you think it will be better to overclock first at 3.0GHz at stock voltage, and if i don't see something wrong to increase in 3.2, and then if i see something to go back (3.0GHz) or bump up the voltage a bit?

[sakisdog93]

And some other think, my friend...

Is that all you need to overclock a cpu?

Just increase FSB, Enable CPU Host Clock Control, and the voltage?

You are sure i don't have to change anything in memory or something alse?

Thanks!!!

[sakisdog93]

Hey man, nive vid!

Look, i have a quad core q8400(2.66GHz)

Asrock P45 DDR3

2gb DDR3 ram(1066MHz)

9800GTX+(GDDR3)

If i overclock the cpu from stock to 3.0 or(best) 3.2GHz without tuching the voltage you thiink it will be ok? with (SPD9x)

Thanks man!!!

[MN12BIRD]

Honestly not sure my E8400 went from 3.0 to 3.6 on stock voltage but any higher and it would crash. I got it up to 4.0GHZ with a 1800MHZ FSB IIRC (don't have the system anymore) and I had to bump up the voltage a bit. The memory multiplier I bumped down untill my RAM was running at 900MHZ (its 800MHZ stock) and it was fine.

[Xteam500]

u said 2 billion swiches, but a transistor has 2 diodes, so 4 billion swiches

[PavelKaGe]

An extremely helping video! i my self just now thought about oc'ing my e8400, which i got about 1 year ago, maybe even more.. and you have no idea how much you helped!

i just made a tiny OC, from 3.0 to 3.2, but befor doing that i tryed to oc the cpu straight to 3.5 and it didn't even load - crashed befor even loading the windows.. you said the later you buy it, the better it m8 be by its voltages? i checked mien and it says 1.07 (default for me) so how can it be it crashed at 3.5? thx.

[Xaeravoq]

i did this to my e8400 and bumped it up to 400 to make it 3.6ghz. but i have a question. when i open up cpu-z it says that the core speed is 2.4 for like about 10-15 seconds but then it will jump up to 3.6 for a few seconds and then go back down to 2.4. why does it sit at 2.4 most of the time?

[MN12BIRD]

Intel's speed step only runs the CPU at full speed when it's under a load. When you are just putting around it runs at 2GHZ (stock) you can go into the BIOS and disable the Intel speed step stuff but I can't remember off the top of my head what the settings are called. There are 2 settings in the advanced area that you need to disable. I'm sure you can look it up and find it.

[cem719]

yeah i overclocked myn from 2.00 ghz to 2.10 ghz i got scared

[torentmonkey]

your ram would run at 960 mhz . You got good ram but for others that will make their pc to don't boot as for the phen guy under me . You must change your fsb : dram frequenty ;)

[JTCPingas09]

I tried to overclock my Phenom X4 9750 from 2.4 to 3.0 and it locked up. Lol

[maxjayz]

my E8400 overclocked to 4.02GHZ lol

[simracr94]

how is 1.296 volts under load a stock voltage? you probably need to change the voltage of the cpu in the bios to its real stock voltage

[shadowreality5]

do you think 3.6 GHz on stock voltages is achievable?

[simracr94]

maybe

[zeppelin0110]

very informative video!

[AmH032uTuBe]

I didn't need any tutorials for overclocking, I just guessed what I was doing, I had NEVER been in the BIOS before (I know like 5x as much as I did then), I got my Celeron D 356 to 3.75GHz, just about... :P without the screen flickering going funny.

After that my Celeron D was always at like 50-60C

I got my new Core 2 Quad Q6700 @ stock 2.66GHz, it runs at 25-35C normally, IN WINDOWS 40-50C for my Celeron D in the BIOS!!!

generally 45C maximum in Windows for my C2Q

[Metalheadplus1]

what motherboard did you use ?

[MN12BIRD]

Gigabyte EP45-DS3L

[Metalheadplus1]

nice, i got the evga 680i. going to put a zalman fan on the cpu and crank it to 4ghz. not to sure about the voltage though :P

but hey nice video :D

[Metalheadplus1]

im thinking about buying this

what do you think you can push the cpu too?

[MN12BIRD]

~4GHZ I guess?

[FoxhoundJay]

watercool this processor well, you can push 4.3 ghz if you want.

[R0L4M]

ROFL a whole shitload

[FedoraFTW]

i have an athlon x2 running at 2.6 and i got it to 3.0 do you think it will hit 3.2?

[AMVDawg]

What's the temperature (idle, full load). You can overclock safe it the temp. of CPU on full load is below 60°C (sometimes not true). I couldn't get my Sempron 3300+ (2.00 GHz) over 2.40GHz at stable and the temps. were 40°C on ful load.

[Edge0fPain]

What the heck is that at 1:50?

[MN12BIRD]

Thats a platter filled with many processor cores ready to be chopped up and made into CPU's. I think the serial numbers on some can tell you how close to the center of the platter your core came from and the ones closer to the middle can OC better!

[Edge0fPain]

Amazing!

[ikkaku2010]

i have a intel E8400 and i want to overclock it and i have a regular heat sink. what should i overclock it to.

[MN12BIRD]

I don't know for sure but 3.6 should be fine.

[GRLiam]

I have a E4500 2.20 GHz, now im a bigginner. So what GHz would it be safe for me too overclock to.

[MN12BIRD]

Not familure with that CPU you should go on overclocking forums and see what others run.

[jamoramajam]

Is that with the default stock heat sink?

[kara12]

so im still confused with these overclocking stuff. Do i need a high power suply and a good cpu fan? and this really bugs me but how much is a reasonable overclock becuase some people overclock 3.6 to 4.0 with the e8400

[MN12BIRD]

Everything can help, stable and clean power, a good motherboard and yes a bigger fan will keep it cooler witch of course helps the most! Every chip is different, and with different motherboards no one can tell you EXACTLY what you can do. 3.6 is mild and anyone should be able to do 3.6 on the stock cooler.

[RickArter]

I love to overclock great video. 5/5

[Intelpentium54321]

You can change the multiplier on some intels right.

[MN12BIRD]

Some are unlocked like the extreme series yeah.

[vox2007]

I'm still on a 2001 dell 8200, running a pentium 4 at 2.60ghz, 400mhz fsb speed, and it still runs fine, I did upgrade the processor a few years ago from a p4 1.70ghz to a 2.60ghz. My rule of thumb is not to overclock, I tell people all the time if you overclock your shortening the life of that processor. I know my dell bios want like me overclock, but I don't want to anyways, I would rather have the p4 run longer, instead of faster, this is just my opinion :) :L

[MN12BIRD]

Keep in mind P4's are a horrible design Intel even admits it now. These new Core2 Duos with 2 cores running at 3GHZ run cooler than a P4 single core at the same speed! It's perfectly safe to overclock these efficient chips up to a certain point. Keep in mind I'm not going to go to the edge or anywhere near it but my 3.5GHZ on stock voltage is dead safe I don't even think it gained more than a few degrees temp at that speed! There is a ton of headroom in these new chips why not use some of it?

[vox2007]

Oh geez you hurt my feelings :( welp Im sure the new technology is better, in fact in another year I hope, I was planning on buying either a new dell or something third party. I guess I think my computer runs well b/c I haven't experience the new core 2 due yet :(, and I'm on a tight budget with little to nothing income :S hopefully it will work out for me.

[vox2007]

Also, I'm using a program from Intel called "Application Accelerator" it does something with the communication between the hard drive and processor and doubles access time maybe more. I notice when I install it things pulled up quicker, games ran faster. :)

[Edge0fPain]

Err I need help with my core duo.... Just Core Duo, not Core 2 Duo. One of the cores are @1.86 Ghz, and the other core is @1.83 Ghz.

I want an extremely mild overclock from 1.86 Ghz to 2 Ghz. If somebody can tell be how to find out the model number of the processor then I can tell you.

Because the overclock is so mild, would I need to change the voltage?

[jessehalloween]

as this guys saying all processors are different, but for such a mild overclock you should not have to bump up the voltage.

[agwellin]

Thank you for all the computer vids, mn12bird. Almost everything I know about computer hardware, I've learned from your videos. Thanks, and keep up the good work!

[kougerman22]

i think ill skip overclocking my laptop... i dont even know how to get to the bias of the system. plus im worried about overheating. =/

[Thepaddster]

Dont bother youll brick the laptop

[MN12BIRD]

Yeah Laptops have enough trouble dealing with heat as they are stock.

[Thepaddster]

Most laptops dont have fans iknowmy HP doesnt i have to use a undercooler

[crazzer123]

I dont understand most of it but i do thank you for explainint it

[kwicksandz]

interesting speech about processors at the start!

[Neodude991]

Great video, learned a fair bit also! I can overclock my 64 X2 5000+ but am running a advance version of the AMI BIOS.

[raulitech]

if you use generic ram, never overclock.

[CRAKIZGOOD]

u can change the multi u can go lower but not higher

[MN12BIRD]

Oh cool I didn't know that!

[julian1000]

Well, for the e8400 the stock is 9x multiplier which is the highest it goes.

Some processors default to a lower multiplier than their highest so you can raise it from stock, it's somewhat rare though.

[lilmul123]

Hey man, I found you through the Sega-16 forums.  Your videos are really interesting and comprehensive. Keep up the great work!

[Chatetris]

Over clocking>@