Overclocking Gigabyte GA-8IE533

[Jonshandbrake]

G'day all

Could you please help. I have embarked today on doing a little OC and was successful :thumbsup: at OC an Athlon 2500+. Found a lot of help on the net and this forum to ease my self into OC.

Now I want to move onto the next PC. Could anyone give me a step by step how to on OC a Gigabyte GA-8IE533 or supply me with a link that will help. My motherboard came with Easy Tune 4 but I would much prefer to do it all via the Bios.

Any suggestions or recommendations with settings would be greatly appreciated :scratch: .

Kindest Regards

Sally

Yes it's me - don't all fall down with shock as I don't usually post :thumbsup: . Dragon usually does it for me but he is in bed and I would like to get started on this as soon as possible.

PPS I have already updated the bios and currently am running memtest86 as a further precaution.

Thank you all once again.

The Handbrake

[muddocktor]

G'day Sally! Glad to see you post. :thumbsup:

I just d/l'ed the manual for the board and it looks like it will be pretty easy and straightforward to overclock with. Go into bios and go to the Frequency/Voltage control section of it. Set the AGP/PCI bus speed to 66/33 if it isn't already set to that that. That will keep the AGP and PCI busses running at their spec speeds while overclocking. Set CPU Host Clock Control to enabled so you can adjust the fsb speed. I would leave the Host/DRAM Clock Ratio set to auto, at least at first, so you aren't overclocking the ram yet to minimize your problems of what is limiting you until you know what the max overclock of the cpu is. Then, start easing the CPU Host Frequency (MHz) up until it looks like the processor isn't stable, then back it down a couple of MHz. If the temps still look good while folding, then go and bump up the vcore voltage some in the CPU OverVoltage Control and see if you can ease the fsb speed higher stably. I would advise you not to exceed 1.675v vcore unless you have very good cooling though. After you've found the maximum speed of the processor, you try experimenting with speeding the ram speed up.

Hope this helps you out and good luck. :thumbsup:

[dragonV8]

G'day Mudd, thanks for the reply to Sally's request. It appears we are taking it in turn to get some shut eye, lol. Sally crashed a short time after her post. Once she gets into something on the puter she don't stop till it's done. Had been up all day and all night.

Without going into the bios myself, your instructions look very easy to follow. :thumbsup: . Sally spent quite a bit on the XP2500+, trying different settings.

According to Cpu-z, it was running at 1830 stock. She has it running at 2370 now. Temp is at 53-54c, holding it's own quite nicely. Stock heatsink with 60-80mm adapter and SmartfanII.

Once she gets her teeth into a project, there is NO stopping her, hehehe.
No doubt she will get back to it a bit later and may still have a few questions.

Thanks again. :thumbsup:

Jon

[dragonV8]

UPDATE....

Sally had a lot of problems in the bios with this mobo. Everytime she would reboot, the bios went back to how it was before. Ended up using easytune 4. Stock was around 2.4 and it now runs at 2.7, confirmed by Cpu-z. We'll see how it goes.

Also got stuck into one of the P4 3.2c's which she is still playing around with. Initial changes through the bios got her 3.5....getting there slowly, hehehe. :)