Voltage questions

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jbweldon04

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I understand why you need to up the FSB and the memory frequency to reach the same numbers. But the confusion I'm having is why do I have to up the Voltage? Is it to get more power to the piece of hardware so It can have more juice to run at these higher settings? How do I know what voltage is the correct voltage for that setting? Just a newbie trying to understand the overclocking process.
 
You dont need to have your fsb and ram at the same speed,regarding your question about why you have to add more voltage to get higher speeds here is an easy way to look at it:When you are in a car if you go faster it uses more fuel just like a cpu will use more voltage o get to faster speeds sortof,overclocking on that processor in your sig you shouldnt have to raise voltage for a little while(until around 2.8-2.9ghz maybe not even at all if you are lucky).

Goodluck.;)
 
"How do I know what voltage is the correct voltage for that setting?"

trick question, you don't really. Maybe you can run 3.4 ghz at 1.4v and prime for 12 hours. is that stable (enough voltage? ) ? possibly, but the same OC might run just as well at 1.375, or 1.425. its a very boring process of rebooting, changing voltages, and then staring at prime. :/
 
So, there lies the answer to why overclocking is so tedious. Voltages. I knew it couldn't be as easy as just upping your FSB and memory frequencies.
 
Overclocking IS simply setting Ram, CPU and FSB timings...

Optimizing the OC is what can be "tedious"
 
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