Quote Originally Posted by Ruslan View Post
Welcome to xtremesystems. First thing first: you need a very good cooler to clock hight. If you have a 45nm CPU dont go above 1.35 to be on the safe side and 1.45 65nm CPU.
First off I've seen many run closer to 1.4 on a 45nm esp on the P45's because they're a dye of the P35 or something right?

Here's my setup (I tried to have it as my sig)

MOBO: P5Q DLX P45
CPU: E8400 Wolfdale w/ Thermalright 120eX
RAM: 4GB Corsair Dominator PC8500
GPU: 8800GTS (G92) <-- soon to be 4870X2
Monitor: BenQ V2400W 24" 2ms
Sound:Xonar D2X w/ Klipsch 5.1
Storage: Western Digital Cavier 640GB (Raid 1)
PSU: Corsair TX750
Case: Antec 182SE w/ window
Assy: Razer Tarantula & MX510


Quote Originally Posted by Ruslan View Post
PLL is the link between the CPU and the Northbridge but I could be wrons about that one. .Above 400 on the FSB adding some voltage may give you more room to go forward. increase slowly about 20 mhz on the FSB at a time, add voltage as needed and gradually slow down. test with prime for 5 minutes and move forward. most CPU's will do ~3 on stock voltage. All the Core2 based processor I ever worked with did 3.2 on stock stable. I like stability so I leave it at that. I have a Q6600 clocked at 3.2 at 400X8. I lowered the multi to 8 because I wanted to raise my FSB for better memory performance. Keep the ratio of the memory 1:1 to be safe. When you run DDR2 800 and keep it 1:1 you can run the memory in spec until you go over the spec.
Ok I have 1066 so that would be 533FSB then...

Quote Originally Posted by Ruslan View Post
add vdimm am .01 as needed. do not put more 2.2. on budget ram it will burn. remember to watch the temp and it is not worth stability to run it at break neck speeds unless you want the highest scores and nothing else. I hope this helps a little. Good luck and have fun it can get kinda of addicting.
Ok vdimm is voltage to the ram then right? I when would I be doing this at the same time I'm adding to the CPU or after? Wouldn't I rather fry the ram than the CPU so I'd start more aggressively with the voltage to the ram then to the CPU? My ram is great for DDR2 so I assume it can hit 2.2v.

Also what is a sound temp, I heard that 10C over stock will lower the CPU's life by 1/2. But then again with my cooler if I was around 55C that'd be about stock anyways?