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Thread ID: 100920 2009-06-25 09:44:00 overclocking guidance for a newbie please powerover (12121) Press F1
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785866 2009-06-30 09:21:00 sweeet!! I am glad to report that bumping up the voltage of the ram to 2.1 resulted in a dramatic 3dmark vantage CPU test score, it increased it by around a 1000 points!!! now im going to bump up the Vcore just a little bit, and c how it goes. :) powerover (12121)
785867 2009-07-01 08:54:00 Increasing the voltage does not make it go any faster on its own.
Ideally you want the voltages as low as you can manage and still have it stable at the overclocked settings
ScreaminGherkin (14811)
785868 2009-07-02 01:26:00 umm good question. I set everything on auto for the voltages, so i guess the mobo will decide what voltages is the best..will do a reboot and get back to you on that one...

prime95 has been running for 5 hours now, no errors no warnings, temp is hovering just around 60 when doing the stress test...everything seems stable :)

Naughty naughty, that is a no no. If you read the guide completely, you would have seen something called vdroop. This is where the voltage selected in the BIOS does not match the voltage in windows, and is mainly due to power draw. If you set the BIOS to automatically adjust the vcpu, when windows is under power\load, it may spike the voltage and zap your cpu.
You must always set your voltage period....
SolMiester (139)
785869 2009-07-02 01:30:00 sweeet!! I am glad to report that bumping up the voltage of the ram to 2.1 resulted in a dramatic 3dmark vantage CPU test score, it increased it by around a 1000 points!!! now im going to bump up the Vcore just a little bit, and c how it goes. :)

Bumping the voltage of the RAM to its spec, allowed the timings of the RAM to tighten, hence the better bench in 3dmark!
SolMiester (139)
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