Hi there. I need some help in overclocking my pc. As I'm a noob in overclocking that is why I need to get some guide from all the gurus here. I hope someone out there can give me a step by step guide. The following is my pc hardware that I'm using.

Intel E8400 processor
Asus P5QL Pro Mainboard
2GB Kingston DDR2 800Mhz RAM x 2
iCute case with stock power supply (450W)
and the processor heatsink and the rest are also stock

I hope someone here can give me a very detail guide in overclocking my pc. Please let me know if there's something I need to upgrade for better stability.

Many thanks.

google is your best friend . Look around & read the comments here as well. No need to open thread bro.

But 1 advice i can give you now itself. Get better cooling and psu

To overclock u need to:
1. Get a better PSU, ur iCute won't cut it in the long run.. It's not a true power psu, get silverstone, vantec, fsp, corsair, ocz, CM etc..
2. To be safe buy a 3rd part HSF to keep ur cpu cool..
3. in o/c intel just raise ur fsb bit by bit n see where's ur wall..

Hi thank you for the fast replies to joe_star and cloudwan. Just now I tried to increase the fsb from 333mhz to 400mhz and PCIE from auto to 100mhz. After that I tried to test it with Prime95 and supervise the temp with coretemp. While the test is running, the temp went up to 71 Celsius. I think that is very hot then I shut it down. Am I doing the right thing? Actually I did quite alot of research in google like what joe_star said but those guide are not detail enough for me as I am really a noob in such thing. Hope to get more guidelines. By the way, any specific model of hsf and cooling system to recommend me? Thank you.

u want a guide???

a guide i shall give.


http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?act=ST&f...0#entry15451675

credit to kmarc.

Hi hilmiangah. I will check out the guide u gave. thank you.

hi attached is the result of overclocking. i installed a new hsf and the temp remain at 59-60 while running on prime95 small FFT test. pls comment on this.


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let the prime95 run until 8-12hours... if there is no problem, that mean stable lo... but if blue screen appear, that is not stable lo...

running prime95 on small fft would take a long time to test stability... try orthos or linx, these software stress to the maximum, and if u pass, u can be damn sure ur oc is stable

Use pinned threads and search function, thanks

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