Wow, i just OC'd my CPU.

[brandonwh64]

I had a XFX 680I LT SLI board and it didnt like overclocking much. I finally got my E5200 to 3.6ghz by jacking the voltage up so much. The board was good for everything stock

 

[heky]

I put a piece of toilet paper between my cheeks just in case I shit myself.

That is the funnyest thing i have heard for years.

 

[Black Panther]

Congrats CDDude55!
Now you won't be able to stop... you have to reach the sweet spot of your QX, maximum Ghz at lowest voltage, get a better cooler, run orthos prime, check out the scores you get at the cpu benchies out there .... Overclocking gives you satisfaction.

I did it the other way round though - first started oc'ing then building (and I only built 2 so far lol)

 

[qubit]

Hey, congrats.

Bet it feels good to get a free performance boost, eh? I've overclocked my PCs for years. I don't go for the extreme end of it; I just go for a decent overclock on a good o/c friendly mobo with a decent heatsink (they've all been Zalman flowers).

Here's my overclocks:

P4 2.8GHz @ 3.5GHz from the day I bought it in 2004. Solid as a rock 24/7. 3.6? flakes out badly, go figure, hehe. Could be the chipset though.
Abit AI7 mobo

Athlon 2GHz & Athlon X2 2GHz & 2.6GHz
Abit AN8 Ultra mobo

E8500 3.16GHz @ 4.11GHz (EO stepping I think, forget off the top of my head). This baby can actually do 4.75GHz+, but the Zalman air cooler is running flat out and the CPU runs real hot (80-90C) at that speed. Watercooling required for 4.75
Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P

Generally, overclocking by itself doesn't put too much strain on the CPU & mobo. It'll just crash if it's too much. It's when you have to increase the voltage that you have to watch out. The power consumption can go through the roof if you're not careful and can result in fried components eventually.

BTW, what was the original speed and does it feel faster on the desktop and in games?

 

[wolf]

stock QX6700 is 2.66ghz on a 1066 fsb if I remember correctly, so 2x multi increase to get to 3.2

Still have my legendary Q6600, Kentsfield chips are still awesome in my books many of my mates still run them in gaming rigs.

 

[Fourstaff]

The temptation to overdo it and accidentally kill your chip, be warned. 3.2 Ghz is pretty safe I must admit.

 

[CDdude55]

I had to downclock it, it was hitting about 97c in game.

No point in going with aftermarket as of now though.(since im currently in the move over to i7)

 

[Sensi Karate]

I had to downclock it, it was hitting about 97c in game.

No point in going with aftermarket as of now though.(since im currently in the move over to i7)

Well you could still by an aftermarket cooler which has compatibility or various bracket sizes so you can put it in your LGA 775 socket. When you get your i7 just replace the bracket or change the settings on the aftermarket cooler and you can now use it on your LGA 1156/LGA 1366 board.

Btw good work on losing your virginity. Nail that CPU until its red hot.

 

[Black Panther]

I had to downclock it, it was hitting about 97c in game.

Check if there's the option in your bios for automatic shutdown when the cpu hits a certain temperature. That way it'd be safer.

 

[hat]

97c is terrible. Either something is terribly dusty, or the heatsink isn't seated properly. Simply changing the multiplier (overclocking only, no change in voltage) won't increace temps any more than 5c... it won't cause your cpu to undergo nuclear meltdown.

 

[TIGR]

Congrats! This may be the start of a long and painful addiction lol. Glad it worked well for you.

 

[Reefer86]

dam 97c thats just scarey!

 

[xBruce88x]

How did you go all this time without overclocking?! MAN! I remember in 1998 I set out specifically to get a Celeron 366, Abit BM6, bigass HSF unit and the tightest Crucial RAM so I could run at 550MHz and show all my friends how tits the Celery was and how easily I could pwn their puny $800 PIII 450s.

wow i still have a stick of that ram somewhere...

i think my first overclock was on an old dell, with a 386... moved the jumper from 25mhz to 33 lol

I had to downclock it, it was hitting about 97c in game.

No point in going with aftermarket as of now though.(since im currently in the move over to i7)

that cpu would make a nice upgrade from my pent d lol

 

[Yukikaze]

Welcome to the life of an OC addict....soon you'll wake up at 2am suddenly realizing that your failed new mega-OC may be stabilized by just that one more BIOS tweak....and then you get up to try it. Might get you some weird looks from your significant other, though.

97c is horrible. I've never had a CPU run that high on temps - Heck, I never had a GPU hit that high (Unless the VRMs count...). If your heatsink is properly seated and is clean then you need a new cooler if you want to OC it. The Scythe Mugen 2 is a great cooler and fit any socket out there in its newest revision (The slightly older one fits anything except LGA1156). Cools my 975 (And my 920 before that) pretty well, too.

I still remember me first dabbling in OC. It was on my Q6600 back in 2007. I was building my own computers for years and years before that (Since the mid-90s), but I only tried to OC after I got out of the army and bought myself a Q6600 based rig right after the massive price drop Intel did on the Core 2 Quads. It did 3Ghz on my P5N32-E SLI (680i chipset, ugh), but I could never get the FSB any higher than 333Mhz - It would immediately go splat.

I bought an MSI P45 eventually, pushed 1.4v to the chip at 3.33Ghz and the board went up in flames - literally. I had an open flame in the computer case, which was kinda neat... By then I was seriously hooked, though, so I sold the Q6600 based system (Only thing that died when the system went up in flames was the motherboard itself), bought a DFI P45 and an E5200 and OC'ed it to 4Ghz, then bought a Q9650, then went to i7 with a 920, then got it replaced with the 975 a few months ago. Now I am switching to watercooling !

This is a slippery slope you're headed for my friend - The life of a hardware junkie !

 

[douglatins]

I though 3.2 was its default frequency. Though cheers for getting into the overclock bandwagon

 

[Yukikaze]

I though 3.2 was its default frequency. Though cheers for getting into the overclock bandwagon

The only LGA775 quad core with a stock speed of 3.2 Ghz is the QX9770. The QX6700 stock speed is 2.66Ghz, the same as its non-X counterpart, the Q6700.