Overclocking Intel E8400

After a lot of thinking and reading, I found out that my computers CPU was very good with overclocking. Today I found out just how good it was.

The CPU started off at 3.0GHz. I started pushing it in giant leaps. When I got to 3.2GHz, I was quite content as my old processor only went from 2.4GHz to 2.53GHz.
Then I found out that people were pushing their PCUs to 3.6GHz with no voltage increase. I managed to do this okay. This was the limit of my DDR2-800 RAM. I learned that to avoid bottlenecks, I needed half of the FSB to be the speed of the RAM. At FSB-1600, I was at the limit.
From then, I wanted to go even further. I overclocked tha RAM. After a lot of playing around with voltages, I managed to get the RAM to 950MHz (I know it can be stable at 960MHz). This allowed me to push my CPU even firther. After lots of burn-in tests, The stable speed was at 4.28GHz! The vcore is at 1.24V (on CPU-Z) and the RAM is at 1.94V

I think this might be the best I can do with my RAM but I know the CPU can go further. The load temperature is only 51 degrees. Keep in mind, this is still with the intel stock cooler!


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