I have set my voltage to 1.45000 for stability. of 333 will fix this, however if you leave the CPU Clock Ratio at its stock 13.5 then you will need a lot more volts, as explained in the next photo. better safe then sorry!) Also, the low FSB of the E5400 means that the stock memory clock defaults at 800MHz. (Why do this? on some boards the auto setting adjusts depending on other aspects. you want the CPU Clock Ratio at 12, the fine CPU Clock Ratio at 0.5, the CPU Host Frequency at 333, and you want to set the PCI Express Frequency at its default of 100. With these settings you will get a nice overclock from 2.7GHz to 4.16GHz. With most gigabyte boards you want the first option: 'Motherboard Intelligent Tweaker'. If I press DEL here it will take me into the setup: I will be overclocking on a Gigabyte GA-G41MT-D3.įirst thing you want to do is boot into the BIOS. You will probably do better with an X38 or X48 mobo instead, But this was my budget build.
This guide will show you how to overclock it on my crappy cheap G41 motherboard. The Pentium Dual Core E5400 is quite an overclocker I've found, taking it to 4.644GHz on air.
This is my first OC'ing guide, so I will keep it short and sweet.
