Trying to Overclock a Xeon X5460 on Asrock G31M-S R2.0

[SuperIronRanger]

I am just wondering if anyone has ever overclocked a CPU on this board before and if there is more than just a .15 increase.

As of right now I have overclocked my xeon x5460 from 3.16ghz to 3.31ghz but I feel as though I can overclock it more I just don't know what I am doing. I looked for threads and other forums but nothing with this specific board and especially not with xeons.

 

My specs are as follows:

CPU: Xeon x5460

GPU: GTX 970 4GB

RAM: 2 x 4GB G.SKILL DDR2 800

PSU: 700B EVGA

Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO

 

Thank you so much, I understand that this is an old board and I super old CPU but I just want to push it to the limit.

[Ashleyyyy]

huh? that's a socket 771 Xeon on a socket 775 board... how?

[SuperIronRanger]

I used a "hack" where you cut tabs off of the lga 775 board and use a sticker for the lga 771 chip to fit it into the lga 775 board.

[ApolloX75]

You're going to be entirely dependent upon the FSB settings, and a G31 board is not a very capable board for overclocking the FSB in the first place. You can try and take it as high as it'll go just remember every board has a hole where it just won't POST. My 790i board for instance hits it between 450 and 480 while my P45 hits it around 420 or so.

 

I was able to get my X5450 stable at 4.0GHz on my 790i.