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I bought the intel e4300, 2 gigs of Super Talent RAM, and the Gigabyte 965P-DS3 Rev 1.3 MoBo (because I couldn't find anywhere that could keep the DFI Infinity P965-S in stock for long enough for me to order it) in order to build an overclocking system on a budget. I understood that there were some problems with the DS3 which seemed to be getting a little better with the newer boards. I was under the assumption that a Rev 1.3 board would be a newer one, but now, upon searching further, I only find people talking about R1, R2, and whole numbers....
Anyway, I've always built using overclockable components, but not actually tried to overclock until now. Using this guide I attempted to overclock my machine. Everything seemed to be fine, fired up CPU-Z, RAM is running at 4-4-4-12, but the CPU winds up not being overclocked.
CPU-Z images follow:
When I reboot and go back into the bios settings, memory setting keep the changes I made, but others have reverted back to automated settings, I guess for the safety of the board. I tried setting the CPU Host Freq to both 376 and 365 as suggested in the guide, but both settings resulted in the same reversion. Yes, the guide I followed is for an intel e6000 series chip, but is that really the only problem? Can anyone tell me what's going on and how to fix it(if I can do so by doing anything other than getting another motherboard)? If I can keep this setup and get more speed out of it I would prefer to as I don't really have the extra $ to spend on a new Motherboard right now.
Help me o wise ones!
[edit] I'm running this all on a Corsair HX520W power supply that I bought along with my other stuff to make sure I had a PSU that could supply solid V rails to this build and most builds that I might choose to do over the next couple of years. It is being cooled by a Cooler Master Aquagate WC system(first time to WC and I already want to go spend a ton of $ on Aqua Computer stuff and build my own if I weren't hindered by my sadly empty wallet) that has never shown me a temp above 29.9C on my CPU.
Anyway, I've always built using overclockable components, but not actually tried to overclock until now. Using this guide I attempted to overclock my machine. Everything seemed to be fine, fired up CPU-Z, RAM is running at 4-4-4-12, but the CPU winds up not being overclocked.
CPU-Z images follow:
When I reboot and go back into the bios settings, memory setting keep the changes I made, but others have reverted back to automated settings, I guess for the safety of the board. I tried setting the CPU Host Freq to both 376 and 365 as suggested in the guide, but both settings resulted in the same reversion. Yes, the guide I followed is for an intel e6000 series chip, but is that really the only problem? Can anyone tell me what's going on and how to fix it(if I can do so by doing anything other than getting another motherboard)? If I can keep this setup and get more speed out of it I would prefer to as I don't really have the extra $ to spend on a new Motherboard right now.
Help me o wise ones!
[edit] I'm running this all on a Corsair HX520W power supply that I bought along with my other stuff to make sure I had a PSU that could supply solid V rails to this build and most builds that I might choose to do over the next couple of years. It is being cooled by a Cooler Master Aquagate WC system(first time to WC and I already want to go spend a ton of $ on Aqua Computer stuff and build my own if I weren't hindered by my sadly empty wallet) that has never shown me a temp above 29.9C on my CPU.