1st ever overclock ...noob alert

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....and 1st post, so hi all :)

Picked up my new gear yesterday, consisting of
E6600
DS3 rev 3.3 F10 Bios
2 x 1GB Geil 6400 ultra pc4000
BFG 8800 GTS.
Arctic freezer 7

So far i have it running at 9x370, 3330 Mhz/1480 FSB, @37/53C idle/load using TAT, so am pretty happy so far, super pi is about 15 secs and has run orthos for 8 hrs with no errors.

But as yet i cant get it to go much higher without instabilities, ie cycling on boot and locking up when entering windows, even by upping voltages etc, the best i've had so far is 9x375 & 8x425 but neither of these were stable and caused errors in orthos within 5-10 mins with load temps of around 56C

my Vdimm is at +0.3, core volt is 1.4, +0.1 on chipset, memory timings are 5-5-5-15.

so roughly a 39% increase in cpu performance, so any suggestions on what else i may try to reach 3.5-3.6 would be great, if not i'll be happy to leave it as is.
 
Managed to get 400x9 at 1.4875, any lower and orthos has errors, just found out my intake fan has packed up so on hold till i get a new one, temps were approaching 60c and ideally i'd like the around 58-59 max, also it's damn noisey lol.

Will try again when i have a new case fan, thanks for the pointer sms
 
gargamadua said:
Managed to get 400x9 at 1.4875, any lower and orthos has errors, just found out my intake fan has packed up so on hold till i get a new one, temps were approaching 60c and ideally i'd like the around 58-59 max, also it's damn noisey lol.

Will try again when i have a new case fan, thanks for the pointer sms

Mine reaches 70C only when running TAT and around 68C in orthos. :D
 
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