Yeah, staying a bit conservative is probably not a bad approach. I do want to see how this current combination runs for awhile however.
Well, after about 4 hours of running prime95 at 12 x 200 1.825 vcore, no errors so far. I'm currently dialed-in and running Mozilla and Outlook on top of Prime95 to see what that does. Current cpu temp is 38C. Nice cool room helps too.
Funny but when I started to OC, I would just try combinations that others had posted, starting with ones that seemed most conservative and working up. I had this long list on the whiteboard behind my computer. It didn't really sink in to me that a higher fsb might be interesting. At first I was simply thinking in terms of max mhz. I think I have been Intel-ed.
BTW, this is mostly a question for chizow (I think he has the same case, Lian-Li PC65plus from pcmods.com), but I'm sure others can answer as well. I have a 3.5 bay mounted temp monitor with 2 long blue wires and plastic covered sensors. How in heck do use one of those to monitor cpu temp? All I can think of is to sort of wedge/slide the sensor between the heat spreader and the cpu. But that makes me very uncomfortable. Any tips there?
And one other case related question. I have two from intake fans, one top intake fan, and a back exit fan. I put in two more fans on the side, and I currently have both running as intake fans. Should one of those be another output, or do I have that right? Regardless, I like the temps with the current configuration. Not a quiet machine though.
Sorry to have so many questions. I'm slowly starting to get this stuff (I think). A little over 3 weeks back, my only idea of a new computer was to order one from Dell. I didn't even consider anything besides Intel cpus. Building an AMD based system and then OCing was not in any of my brain cells yet. Still not sure how that all changed, other than I am cheap and started to research upgrade options which led me to...
Well, after about 4 hours of running prime95 at 12 x 200 1.825 vcore, no errors so far. I'm currently dialed-in and running Mozilla and Outlook on top of Prime95 to see what that does. Current cpu temp is 38C. Nice cool room helps too.
Funny but when I started to OC, I would just try combinations that others had posted, starting with ones that seemed most conservative and working up. I had this long list on the whiteboard behind my computer. It didn't really sink in to me that a higher fsb might be interesting. At first I was simply thinking in terms of max mhz. I think I have been Intel-ed.
BTW, this is mostly a question for chizow (I think he has the same case, Lian-Li PC65plus from pcmods.com), but I'm sure others can answer as well. I have a 3.5 bay mounted temp monitor with 2 long blue wires and plastic covered sensors. How in heck do use one of those to monitor cpu temp? All I can think of is to sort of wedge/slide the sensor between the heat spreader and the cpu. But that makes me very uncomfortable. Any tips there?
And one other case related question. I have two from intake fans, one top intake fan, and a back exit fan. I put in two more fans on the side, and I currently have both running as intake fans. Should one of those be another output, or do I have that right? Regardless, I like the temps with the current configuration. Not a quiet machine though.
Sorry to have so many questions. I'm slowly starting to get this stuff (I think). A little over 3 weeks back, my only idea of a new computer was to order one from Dell. I didn't even consider anything besides Intel cpus. Building an AMD based system and then OCing was not in any of my brain cells yet. Still not sure how that all changed, other than I am cheap and started to research upgrade options which led me to...