Old 08-04-11 | 04:06 PM
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before overclocking i always like to re-install the heat sink with a fresh thermal paste of arctic silver5 just apply lightly a bead in each corner and one in the middle. one tube can do up to 10 cpus. anyway here is the guide i always use from tom's for gaming rigs.

Every motherboard BIOS is different as to labeling each feature so it's your responsibility to discover your motherboard relation to these named settings, I'm not making this long and drawn out so lets get down to business guys!

Disable these Intel CPU features, Enhanced Halt State (C1E), CPU C3 State Support, Package C State Support, Hardware Prefetcher, Adjacent Cache Line Prefetch, Hyper Threading [a 2600K feature], No-Execute Memory Protection, Spread Spectrum, Intel Virtualization (Unless you're running WinXP virtual within Win7, in that case leave it enabled)

Intel Speed Step: Special Instructions> Before you disable Speed Step, which disables Turbo Boost, set Turbo Boost Power Limit to [Manual]
Set Short Duration Power Limit to 140
Set Long Duration Power Limit to 180
Set Long Duration Maintain to the max allowed sec.
Additional Turbo Voltage (Too little is not good and too much is not good, you'll have to figure this one out for yourself.)

Then disable Intel Speed Step.

Leave CPU Thermal Throttling and Internal PLL over voltage, [Enabled]

Active Processor Cores = All

Core Current Limit = 200 (This is a wattage setting.)

CPU Ratio = Manual (This is the control to manually set your multiplier)

Host Clock Overide or Base Clock = 100mhz ( Do not increase this BCLK, you will be increasing the multiplier, not the base clock)

Voltage Settings;
Power Saving Mode = Disabled
CPU Core Voltage = Fixed or Manual (However your M/B lists this setting to give you manual control over it)
Fixed voltage = ?.??? ( Whatever solid voltage it takes to run a certain multiplier, do not use Offset Voltage)
CPU Load Line Calibration = Level 1 (For an ASRock M/B is 1 to 1, you want as close to straight across voltage from BIOS to OP/SYS, since you will not be speed throttling down with these settings)

DRAM voltage = (You've already manually set that)

Leave all the rest of the voltage setting on AUTO, PLL, VTT, etc.
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