2nd Shot at Overclocking

ste-sim2x9

ste-sim2x9

ste-sim2x9

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Well over this week i have been trying to understand as much as i could about overclocking as i could by reading as many posts as i could and looking through loads of bios templates other overclockers have made to try to make sense of the overclocking bios settings. I have even managed to put my tuniq tower on my cpu the right way round by adapting the holding bracket as it would not fit between the motherboard heatsinks as seen on the pic below.

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I hacksawed the k8 holes from each end of the bracket so it would fit. Pic below.

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Now my temps have gone down a lot, i have overclocked my Q6600 and have it running a 3ghz and left it running on prime95 overnight and 9 hours and 3 mins later it did 356 tests with 0 errors & 0 warnings, Here is my results.

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I tried to up it to 3.2ghz but when i started prime95 it gave me a bsod of 2 seconds saying Page_Fault_in_nonpaged_area. Any ideas what i could do to stop that error.
 
Sounds like you need to either give the CPU more voltage, or the RAM more voltage/drop the divider one at that setting. What speed was your RAM running at on the 3.2Ghz clock?

Hawker
 
Here are my settings i have used for the 3ghz.

Intelligent Tweaker(M.I.T.)
Robust Graphics Booster ...............: Auto
CPU Clock Ratio .......................: 8
CPU Frequency .........................: 3.00GHz (376X8)

Clock Chip Control

Standard Clock Control

CPU Host Clock Control.................: [Enabled]
CPU Host Frequency (Mhz) ..............: 376
PCI Express Frequency (Mhz) ...........: 100
C.I.A.2 ...............................: [Disabled]

Advanced Clock Control

CPU Clock Drive........................: 800
PCI Express Clock Drive................: 900
CPU Clock Skew (ps)....................: 0ps
MCH Clock Skew (ps)....................: 0ps

DRAM Performance Control

Performance Enhance....................: Standard
Extreme Memory Profile (X.M.P.)........: Disabled
(G)MCH Frequency Latch.................: AUTO
System Memory Multiplier ..............: 2.00D
Memory Frequency (Mhz) ................: 752MHz
Dram Timing Selectable [SPD] Manual

Standard Timing Control

CAS Latency Time.......................: 5
tRCD ..................................: 5
tRP...................................: 5
tRAS...................................: 18

Advanced Timing Control - Not Touched



Motherboard Voltage Control

CPU

Load-Line Calibration..................: [Enabled]
CPU Vcore..............................: 1.37500 normal
CPU Termination........................: 1.200 normal
CPU PLL................................: 1.500 normal
CPU Reference..........................: 0.760 normal

MCH/ICH

MCH Core...............................: 1.100 normal
Reference..............................: 0.760 normal
MCH/DRAM Ref...........................: 0.900 normal
ICH I/O................................: 1.500 normal
ICH Core...............................: 1.100 normal

DRAM
DRAM Voltage...........................: 2.0
DRAM Termination ......................: 0.900 auto
Channel A Reference....................: 0.900 auto
Channel B Reference ...................: 0.900 auto
 
OK well I would set the SPD to auto for the moment. Multiplier to 9, FSB to 366, Vcore to 1.4v (3.3Ghz). Leave the rest alone. Then check if thats stable and the temps are ok. If its not stable jump the Vcore to 1.425v, if it is stable you can either up the FSB and go for a higher clock or drop the Vcore a bit and see if its still stable.

Hawker
 
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