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wickerwolf

Apr 29 2007, 08:26 PM

Hey all, ive just orderd the parts for my new rig of overclockers.co.uk and want some help with overclocking it. Heres what parts ive got comming

Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.80GHz (800FSB)
Corsair 1GB DDR2 XMS2-5400C4 TwinX (2x512MB)
Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard

Its all due to be deleverd on tuesday morning, ie got 4 fans in the case so theres enough cooling so were to start?

Thanks.

ripken204

Apr 29 2007, 08:40 PM

this is for amd but still give it a read
http://www.diy-street.com/forum/showthread.php?t=20823

amit_talkin

Jun 11 2007, 02:23 PM

you can push it to about 3.4 GHz with that mobo. but u have got crappy RAM. it wont handle this kinda hard overclocking. go for any 800 MHz RAM.

AMIT

ripken204

Jun 11 2007, 07:37 PM

or just use a memory divider, this will lower memory performance but the cpu will be faster.

nitroshift

Jun 14 2007, 05:00 AM

QUOTE (amit_talkin @ Jun 11 2007, 11:23 PM)