OCing my e8500

[primitivepete1]

hey all just need a helping hand into this on my ep45t extreme
iv been playin with the bios a bit
i bumped up the mulltiplyer to 422 which gave me 4.01 ghz
and then bumped my vcore up to 1.25
dram to 1.52
CIA2 is disabled and the memory is set to standard as in not fast or extreme
it boots up ok but its nor stable
it will be fine like i run crysis on very high setting for 10 mins or so
look up internet all that stuff after this i turn my pc off
come back later turn it on again then it crashes wen i get to windows so i reboot with out changing the bios and all is fine

[OCX600RR]

Have you stress tested your overclock to make sure it's stable? Sounds to me like you havent. You might need to increase your vcore a tad to remain stable at 4GHz. Also, its your FSB that you changed to 422MHz, your multiplier is set to 9.5. Also, 1.52v on the RAM? Are you running DDR3?

[primitivepete1]

yeah ddr3 default is 1.5
how would i stress test the OC

[OCX600RR]

There's lots of programs out there..I use ORTHOS. Just google it and it'll show you where to download it. I'd also download CoreTemp or RealTemp and see how high the temps go while you run ORTHOS. A good stable overclock (for me) runs ORTHOS for 12 hours.

[imPurpleHaze]

my orthos normally crashes after like 6-7 hours, but not cuz my cpu ain't stable, it crashes cuz windows had found an error....

so i'm using Prime95, which is like the same, but it seems stable to me

[primitivepete1]

at the moment it seems to run alrite at 3.8 with vcore at 1.25
but yeah il get those and c how il go
is there any other settings i should be tweaking to get a more stable outcome
other than the mutiplyer, fsb, vcore and dram

ALSO IS THERE SOME SORT OF IDIOTS GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING THE BIOS FUNCTIONS AS IN WAT DOES WAT OR IF YOU CHANGE THIS THAN IT WILL RESULT WITH THAT
IF YA CATCH MY DRIFT

[imPurpleHaze]

yea the gtls! if u set them correctly u can lower ur vCore!
heres a tut how to use them: >>click!<<