PC came overclocked but I reformated and now its back at stock.

Robert1986 · 29 Sep 2008 at 22:05

Ok, I found my full system specs.

Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 2.40GHz Dual Core CPU Overclocked too a minimum of 2.93GHz and beyond. (9 x 333MHz - 1333MHz FSB)
- Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Intel approved cooler
- Arctic Silver 5 Heatsink compound professionally hand installed by our technicians
- ABIT FP-IN9 Fatal1ty NVIDIA 650 (Socket LGA775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard ( This got replaced to a asus P5N32-E SLI PLUS )
- Award winning G.Skill PK 2GB Ultra PC2-6400 CAS4 (2x1GB) Dual Channel Kit (Overclocked at 900MHz+)
- 500GB Western Digital Enterprise 16MB Cache SATA-2 Hard Drive
- NVIDIA 8800 GTS 640MB GDDR3 VIVO HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) DirectX 10 Graphics Card
- NEC 7173 18x DVD±RW Dual Layer LabelFlash ReWriter (Black)
- Black Sony Floppy Drive
- Antec NINE HUNDRED Gamers ATX Case
- BFG 800W Next Generation Power Supply

I'd very much appreciated any advice on how to overclock my cpu and it looks like my ram needs to be overclocked aswell, again.

PwnDirect · 30 Sep 2008 at 03:35

james.miller said:
it worries me more than you dont know what cpu was shipped with your grand's worth of pc when you bought it lol

Indeed I have heard horror storeys of less scrupulous people basically striping the internals of pc if they can get away with it.

willhub · 30 Sep 2008 at 04:44

Robert1986 said:
Ok, I found my full system specs.

I'd very much appreciated any advice on how to overclock my cpu and it looks like my ram needs to be overclocked aswell, again.

So you thought you where buying the PC in the OP and you got the above?? :confused:

<Dubz> · 30 Sep 2008 at 06:34

i'd use Coretemp just to check your CPU temp is still okay before overclocking it.

It's a straightforward overclock aswell.

muon · 30 Sep 2008 at 09:44

At stock voltage 3ghz shouldnt be a problem. Just change the fsb to 333mhz and you'll get 3ghz e6600 and the RAM will be at 500mhz. So youll want to reduce the timings of the RAM to 5-5-5-15.

If you want to clock higher, drop the fsb:dram ratio to 1:1. And then see how close you can get to 400*9 (3.6ghz). Upping the voltage where necessary.

Shrapnel · 30 Sep 2008 at 09:51

Robert1986 , I suggest you take Yewen's advice and phone the OcUK number. They'll sort you.

Montegue · 30 Sep 2008 at 10:04

Yewen said:
I would recommend calling our technical support line on 0871 222 8528 and they will be happy to help you clock the system back to what it was sent out at.

james.miller said:
it worries me more than you dont know what cpu was shipped with your grand's worth of pc when you bought it lol

What is more distressing is the fact a valued customer spends a grand or more and has to spend even more "pounds" on the telephone and @ 10p per min it surely will go into the pounds. There is always a huge queue.

Also to the OP, if your system is anything like mine then OcUK places a saved OverClock setting in the bios on the mobo.

Robert1986 · 30 Sep 2008 at 10:21

willhub said:
So you thought you where buying the PC in the OP and you got the above??

Yea, crazy huh? No, I knew exactly what PC I bought. Just didn't know why my order page changed.

Thanks for the above replies.

Montegue said:
Also to the OP, if your system is anything like mine then OcUK places a saved OverClock setting in the bios on the mobo.

Cool. Where in the bios do I change the setting to? I don't want to mess around with anything.

<De@thW!sh> said:
i'd use Coretemp just to check your CPU temp is still okay before overclocking it.

It's a straightforward overclock aswell.

willhub · 30 Sep 2008 at 13:34

How much did you pay? I'm sure 1100 for a system like that is a rip unless it was the 3870X2 system.

Robert1986 · 30 Sep 2008 at 14:09

willhub said:
How much did you pay? I'm sure 1100 for a system like that is a rip unless it was the 3870X2 system.

£950 back in April 2007. Is was a good deal back then, now my set-up costs around £500.

Robert1986 · 30 Sep 2008 at 15:09

Overclocked. Hope I did everything right. I'm pretty sure I did.

Heres the new settings.

memphisto · 30 Sep 2008 at 16:19

looks right to me mate

Robert1986 · 30 Sep 2008 at 16:21

Nice, so the DRAM is at the correct setting? Should I dare up the CPU 3.6?

muon · 30 Sep 2008 at 20:15

You should be able to run your RAM at higher speeds. Try 2.4 (1.2:1) setting and youll be running your RAM at 400mhz, and should be able to reduce the timings to 4-4-4-12.

Robert1986 · 30 Sep 2008 at 21:40

ghost101 said:
You should be able to run your RAM at higher speeds. Try 2.4 (1.2:1) setting and youll be running your RAM at 400mhz, and should be able to reduce the timings to 4-4-4-12.

Would I see much a difference though?

muon · 1 Oct 2008 at 16:38

Robert1986 said:
Would I see much a difference though?

Well you spent the money on getting good RAM, may as well use it at its stock settings. At the moment, it is way below stock settings.