I get the feeling it's your memory/settings holding you back.
Did you bump up the MCH? If not you may want to try this and then upping the vCore to 1.36V (don't worry about the restarts - it's normal with a failed clock attempt. Sounds worse than it is.)
But TBH, i think we need to bring your memory speed down to ~800MHz (i think 2.66 is next in the multiplier) while we test the CPU’s limits and the voltages it needs.We need to be sure that any instability you encounter isn't due to your memroy). Once we have found a stable platform we could then look at getting the memory above 800Mhz.
If we brought the memory speed down you should be able to post 3.5GHz, hopefully, with 1.35V or less. Fine tuning the memory over speeds of 800MHz with an 800FSB chip is always the fiddly bit. You can sometimes get it to run at its designated 1066 - but it's a long methodical process.
So to summarise - either try 1.36V with an MCH of 1.2V with th epresent settings and see what happens - quite often a mixture of voltage fractions can solve everything. Or lower the memory to 800MHz or under using the divider and leave the other settings as is.
Again, this is a quick fix approach - and if it fails you perhaps need to either stick at 3.2GHz or do this the traditional way - i.e. resetting the system back to stock and upping the FSB incrementally until it buckles (revert back to last known stable FSB), then upping the vCore, repeat process etc then fine tune other settings as required...
Additional:
Did you bump up the MCH? If not you may want to try this and then upping the vCore to 1.36V (don't worry about the restarts - it's normal with a failed clock attempt. Sounds worse than it is.)
But TBH, i think we need to bring your memory speed down to ~800MHz (i think 2.66 is next in the multiplier) while we test the CPU’s limits and the voltages it needs.We need to be sure that any instability you encounter isn't due to your memroy). Once we have found a stable platform we could then look at getting the memory above 800Mhz.
If we brought the memory speed down you should be able to post 3.5GHz, hopefully, with 1.35V or less. Fine tuning the memory over speeds of 800MHz with an 800FSB chip is always the fiddly bit. You can sometimes get it to run at its designated 1066 - but it's a long methodical process.
So to summarise - either try 1.36V with an MCH of 1.2V with th epresent settings and see what happens - quite often a mixture of voltage fractions can solve everything. Or lower the memory to 800MHz or under using the divider and leave the other settings as is.
Again, this is a quick fix approach - and if it fails you perhaps need to either stick at 3.2GHz or do this the traditional way - i.e. resetting the system back to stock and upping the FSB incrementally until it buckles (revert back to last known stable FSB), then upping the vCore, repeat process etc then fine tune other settings as required...
Additional:
- Have you ever memtest your memory at the 3.2GHz settings?
- What is the memory speed/setup in the 3.2GHz profile?
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