Newbie B-Day question: Help overclocking my P5K3, Q9300 and OCZ Gold DDR3 10666 combo
Hey Guys
I am a newbie at overclocking and it happens to be my birthday, so if I ask stupid questions please be nice and don't flame me. I have tried searches and read stickies but have not found the info I need. If the information I asked is posted somewhere else or if you feel I should read another sticky, please provide a link. In fact I was reading a nice step by step and thought I had it saved to my favorites but now I can't find it. Anyway, let me get to my question:
BUILD:
I have purchase and assembled a new build (about my 6-7th one) consisting of an ASUS P5K3 deluxe motherboard, an intel Q9300, 2-1 gig sticks of OCZ Gold DDR3 10666 (1333 mhz) memory (I have two more gigs ready to go in) and a ATI 3870 video card.
I have built this to do some video editing of my AVCHD high def honeymoon video. Apparently this stuff needs alot of horse power and even though I thought I had built a sufficiently fast build, it is just barely fast enough slightly overclocked. Right now I am using ASUS windows based AI booster to run the CPU by increasing the fSB to 366 instead of 333 and have it going at about 2.8 ghz. Anything higher using this method does not work. However, I have read these cpus can go way past this to over 3 gig (http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/core2quad-q9300_6.html#sect0). In this review they were using an ASUS board. I tried their settings with no luck. I have also read that the memory can be run with a FSB of 400 here: http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=31299?t=32363. Again, I trried their settings with no luck.
So, obviously I am doing something wrong or, as I suspect, something is limiting me and I have a feeling it is the memory. Maybe I should go with the platinum +. Can you guys help me out? Give me any info. I would GREATLY appreciate it. I am trying not to break the bank with a faster CPU, even though that may be the way I have to go.
Regards,
Mario
Hey Guys
I am a newbie at overclocking and it happens to be my birthday, so if I ask stupid questions please be nice and don't flame me. I have tried searches and read stickies but have not found the info I need. If the information I asked is posted somewhere else or if you feel I should read another sticky, please provide a link. In fact I was reading a nice step by step and thought I had it saved to my favorites but now I can't find it. Anyway, let me get to my question:
BUILD:
I have purchase and assembled a new build (about my 6-7th one) consisting of an ASUS P5K3 deluxe motherboard, an intel Q9300, 2-1 gig sticks of OCZ Gold DDR3 10666 (1333 mhz) memory (I have two more gigs ready to go in) and a ATI 3870 video card.
I have built this to do some video editing of my AVCHD high def honeymoon video. Apparently this stuff needs alot of horse power and even though I thought I had built a sufficiently fast build, it is just barely fast enough slightly overclocked. Right now I am using ASUS windows based AI booster to run the CPU by increasing the fSB to 366 instead of 333 and have it going at about 2.8 ghz. Anything higher using this method does not work. However, I have read these cpus can go way past this to over 3 gig (http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/core2quad-q9300_6.html#sect0). In this review they were using an ASUS board. I tried their settings with no luck. I have also read that the memory can be run with a FSB of 400 here: http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=31299?t=32363. Again, I trried their settings with no luck.
So, obviously I am doing something wrong or, as I suspect, something is limiting me and I have a feeling it is the memory. Maybe I should go with the platinum +. Can you guys help me out? Give me any info. I would GREATLY appreciate it. I am trying not to break the bank with a faster CPU, even though that may be the way I have to go.
Regards,
Mario