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Hello All! Well I just built my system yesterday and i have installed all the components, drives, ect. Now I would like to try my hand in OC. I know there are tons of pages about this but I just want to make sure that I get it right the first time.

My specs of my system is this:
XIGMATEK HDT-S1283 120mm Rifle CPU Cooler -
SAMSUNG 20X DVD±R DVD Burner with LightScribe Black SATA Model SH-S203N -
Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD6400AAKS 640GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive -
CORSAIR XMS2 DHX 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TWIN2X4096-6400C4DHX -
PC Power & Cooling S75QB 750W ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply -
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor Model BX80570E8400 -
Microsoft Windows XP Home With SP2B for System Builders 1 Pack -
ASUS EAH4850/HTDI/512M Radeon HD 4850 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Video Card
GIGABYTE GA-X48-DS4 LGA 775 Intel X48 ATX Intel Motherboard
Acer AL2216Wbd Black 22" 5ms Widescreen LCD Monitor with HDCP support
Antec 900

So does any one know a step by step guide out there for a newb like myself?? :)

I would appreciate any comments.

Thanks!

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There are perfectly good stickies at the top of this forum that address this. Please check stickies first as they will most likely answer 99% of your questions on this topic. No offense, but many people just get an account and fire off a thread on this without doing any reading or research themselves. You won't learn anything unless you do it yourself.

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Reply to rubix_1011

I have gone over most of those stickes and they pertain to my system. Now unless you're saying all BIOS are the same... but then again I really don't understand the whole OC thing as I said in my thread..

Reply to jdmvike84

Correct, BIOS are somewhat different from vendor to vendor. I guess I am lost; if they pertain to your system, where does your confusion lie?


Message edited by rubix_1011 on 07-11-2008 at 09:55:49 PM
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Reply to rubix_1011

Set your memory divider at 1:1, now put the fsb @ 400mhz, you should need no voltage increases for that

Reply to blackwidow_rsa
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blackwidow_rsa wrote :

Set your memory divider at 1:1, now put the fsb @ 400mhz, you should need no voltage increases for that



That's not true because I had manually set my voltage to get stable @ 1600FSB

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Reply to ausch30

I find the with Corsair memory to get it completely stable its best to set the timings/voltages manually, Use CPU Z and look under the SPD tab, This will tell you what timings/voltage required for 400Mhz, Set these in bios and your CPU should do 3.6HGhz on stock voltage at 400Mhz FSB, If its stable at this voltage i would lower the voltage in small increments and use Orthos grommacs core to test for stability, On auto settings the mobo generally overvolts the processor.

Reply to Mogwilson
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wow thats nearly identical to my future system except for ya PSU and m/b....

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