My first build, OC, and posting here, previously I've just been reading these informative boards. But I got some questions which I can't seem to get a clear answer to with researching and I wanted someinput from experienced folks.
I got an E4500 with a GA-P35-DS3L using a stock cooler. I OCed the system to 2.93 at 1.325v and it's P95 stable for a 6 hour run (short).
1) Is 1.325v too high for running e4500 at 266 x 11 and whether I'm not overvolting too much?
My other questions are about temperatures. I run vista64 so I couldn't use coretemp and used speedfan instead. It reported temperatures of 51C at full load. I would be fine with those figures, but I've read the temperature guide (which was just recently removed from here) and it confused me a bit. The e4500 is M0 stepped, and the way I understood the guide is that for M0 stepped cpus I should use a +15 offset with speedfad, in other places I'm reading that it's only necessary for quads.
2) Do I use any offset values with speedfan 4.33 and e4500?
3) If I don't need to and my temp readings are somewhat accurate, are low 50's C temps alright for the stock cooler to handle at full load?
My idle is 19C but that's because it's bone chillingly cold in my basement. No heat besides the utility room.
Thanks for the help.
I got an E4500 with a GA-P35-DS3L using a stock cooler. I OCed the system to 2.93 at 1.325v and it's P95 stable for a 6 hour run (short).
1) Is 1.325v too high for running e4500 at 266 x 11 and whether I'm not overvolting too much?
My other questions are about temperatures. I run vista64 so I couldn't use coretemp and used speedfan instead. It reported temperatures of 51C at full load. I would be fine with those figures, but I've read the temperature guide (which was just recently removed from here) and it confused me a bit. The e4500 is M0 stepped, and the way I understood the guide is that for M0 stepped cpus I should use a +15 offset with speedfad, in other places I'm reading that it's only necessary for quads.
2) Do I use any offset values with speedfan 4.33 and e4500?
3) If I don't need to and my temp readings are somewhat accurate, are low 50's C temps alright for the stock cooler to handle at full load?
My idle is 19C but that's because it's bone chillingly cold in my basement. No heat besides the utility room.
Thanks for the help.