Posts by velvetfalcon48

I’m honestly not sure if tweaking the multiplier to 12.5 is worth the headache—it would force me to crank up the FSB way too high. As for the divider, I’ve already cycled through 3.33 and 3.2, and it feels like anything else is just hitting a wall; they either end up being far too large or just too small—I don't want to drop below 800 MHz, but there's really no point going over 900.

The real kicker is this OC issue that only pops up after the PC has been powered down for a while—it’s almost as if the system "cools off" too much and then refuses to boot using my current settings...
I actually tried bumping it up to 1.5V just to see if it would cause any instability, but surprisingly, it was perfectly stable and booted up without a single hitch every time... though, I’m pretty hesitant about leaving it at anything higher than 1.37V.

Anthony Scott93 said:What kind of GPU are we talking about here?

The card is an AMD Radeon 2600XT with 256MB of DDR4—it doesn't require any extra power connectors from the PSU.

The power supply is a Smartbox unit... honestly, it’s pretty bottom-tier. Do you think that might be where the issue lies?

Hey everyone, I have a bit of a puzzle here... I’m running into some persistent issues with overclocking my E5200. It’s a strange one—when I bump the clock speed up slightly, say anything north of 2900 MHz, everything runs smooth as silk, even pushing toward 3.5 GHz. But there's a catch: if I shut down the PC and leave it sitting for a while, things go sideways upon reboot. When I power it back up, the BIOS starts to load, but then the system just restarts itself about 5 seconds in. Then it tries again, only to crash after 2 seconds, and a third time it restarts after 3 seconds. After those failed attempts, it finally boots into the BIOS and Windows normally, but it completely wipes my OC settings and reverts back to the stock 2.5 GHz. Does anyone have an idea what might be causing this loop? Any advice on how to fix it?
My setup consists of a Gigabyte EP35-DS3 motherboard, 2x2GB of Corsair 800MHz RAM, a 400W power supply, and an AC-Freezer 7 cooler. I never push the memory past 900MHz, and I've bumped the CPU voltage up to 1.385V—I honestly don't dare go any higher than that...

Jesse Kern4 said:What kind of temperatures are we looking at?

At 3.8GHz, I'm seeing about 58 degrees under load and 43 while idling—just a bit high, perhaps. So, I just dialed it back to 3.33GHz, setting the BIOS voltage to 1.385V... currently sitting at 53 degrees under load and 38 at idle... though, it just crashed in Prime after a few minutes... oh well, that's just how it goes.

Well, he’s using an outdated version of CPU-Z... honestly, I don't think that's really the issue here. I'm not entirely sure if that's why Prime isn't passing, but look—I've been playing GTA IV for about five or six hours now (which, by the way, runs much smoother than it did on my old processor), and while simultaneously downloading a torrent, everything has been running like a dream. No crashes, no glitches, nothing at all...

I had it running at 3.8GHz with a voltage of 1.5V, but then I came across a note from him suggesting you shouldn't really push past 1.35V once you're inside Windows. I'm not quite certain why that is, or even if a slightly higher voltage is actually doing any real damage over time...

I’ve recently started dipping my toes into the world of overclocking...

Taking a page out of Taian's book, I decided to try pushing my E5200 on a Gigabyte EP35-DS3 board—equipped with 4GB of G.Skill Standard Series DDR2 800 (running at 1.8V)—alongside an AC Freezer 7 cooler.

My initial attempt was aiming for 3.8GHz with a 304MHz bus at a BIOS voltage of 1.375V. The memory was sitting somewhere around 900MHz, though I can't recall the exact number. With those specific settings, the system wouldn't even get past the BIOS; it just rebooted three times before reverting back to defaults.

Currently, I have it running at 3375MHz with a BIOS voltage of 1.375V—though once I'm inside Windows, it drops to 1.344V at idle. The memory is clocked at 900MHz, while the bus is at 270MHz. Temperatures look decent enough—around 54°C under load and 39°C at idle. On paper, everything seems to be functioning perfectly, yet the moment I fire up Prime, one of my two workers inevitably freezes after just a few seconds.

What should my next move be? Does anyone have any advice on how to achieve true stability? I’ve already gone through the introductory guide...