Another E6420 conroe overclocking question

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I have it on my Gigabyte GA 965P S3 board, I don't want to invest in a better cooler, keep the stock, I have the advantage that I have a thermaltake armour case with good air circulation and fans, but I still want to keep it realistic in terms of how much I overclock it. I guess 500mhz might be okay. Does anyone know a guide I could read which tells me what to change in bios?
 
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Monstermunch said:
Clocking
1. Make sure that you have the latest chipset drivers and flash the board to the most recent bios version
2. On the main bios screen press Ctrl+F1 to open the advanced options within the menus
3. In the Advanced Bios Features Menu, Disable all of the following: CPU Enhanced Halt (C1E), CPU Thermal Monitor 2(TM2), CPU EIST Function
4. In the PC Health Status menu, set the FAN Speed Control Method to "Legacy" & FAN Speed Control Mode to "PWM" to maintain highest speed
5. Go into the MB Intelligent Tweaker (MIT) menu at the bottom of the page, set the System voltage control to "Manual"
6. These boards have a default VDIMM of 1.8v, set the VDIMM to co-ordinate with your ram. Your Ballistix is specced as 2.2v so set it to +0.4v
7. Set the MCH Voltage to +0.1v
8. Set the FSB Voltage to +0.1v
9. Set the VCORE to 1.375v - Please be aware that this will increase temps!
10. Set the CPU Host Clock Control to "Enable"
11. Set the System Memory Multiplier to "2x"
12. You're set to go, just increase the System bus Frequency to Overclock

I would recommend that you use Intels TAT to monitor temps
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At step 12, it will start off at 266 - increase it to 300 (2.4GHz) and reboot. If that is stable then increase it to 333 (2.7GHz) and reboot. If it still seems stable then run Orthos for 8 hours to prove the stability.

Monitor the temperatures carefully using TAT as advised by Monstermunch. If you're seeing anything over 70C then back off the overclock.

Cooling is everything in overclocking and you really should consider a better CPU cooler.

If your temperatures remain low, then keep turning up the FSB until it becomes unstable or the temperatures exceed 70C.
 
Understood. Thanks guys, what about those drivers/bios? I downloaded the one on the top, presumed that's what I need. It gave me these.
How should I proceed?
965PDS3.11B
autoexec
FLASH895

Also, what will Orthos tell me if it's unstable? Stress CPU&RAM together should I chose?
 
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zaza said:
Understood. Thanks guys, what about those drivers/bios? I downloaded the one on the top, presumed that's what I need. It gave me these.
How should I proceed?
965PDS3.11B
autoexec
FLASH895
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You make a floppy disk with those on it and boot up with that in the A Drive. The AUTOEXEC.bat will update the BIOS and then restart the machine. Follow the instructions on the screen.

You are aware that F11B is a Beta BIOS?

You might want to start off with F10 instead?
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/Motherboard/BIOS_DownloadFile.aspx?FileType=BIOS&FileID=12572

If your system seems fine at the moment, then you might be as well to leave the BIOS as is, especially since it's not been updated since January - you probably already have the F10 BIOS.

zaza said:
Also, what will Orthos tell me if it's unstable? Stress CPU&RAM together should I chose?
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Use Blend. If blend fails then use small FFTs to check if it's the CPU overclock or not. If it passes small FFTs then it's the RAM that's unstable, basically.
 
There is just no excuse in not getting an aftermarket cooler when overclocking C2D.

I mean whats 17 quid for a Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 775)
 
easyrider said:
There is just no excuse in not getting an aftermarket cooler when overclocking C2D.

I mean whats 17 quid for a Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 775)
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Whoah!

Maybe he's not got £17? Maybe he's trying to build the ultimate budget rig? I'd say he's off to a good start.

Once he's used up the capacity of his stock cooler, he can get a better one and get another 500MHz out of his CPU.

Or are you worried he'll start posting in your threads asking why you're wasting money on aftermarket coolers when he's got 3.2GHz on his E6420 with the stock cooler? :D :D

These forums are nuts.....
 
WJA96 said:
Whoah!

Maybe he's not got £17? Maybe he's trying to build the ultimate budget rig? I'd say he's off to a good start.

Once he's used up the capacity of his stock cooler, he can get a better one and get another 500MHz out of his CPU.

Or are you worried he'll start posting in your threads asking why you're wasting money on aftermarket coolers when he's got 3.2GHz on his E6420 with the stock cooler? :D :D



These forums are nuts.....
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I doubt he can't afford 17 quid for a cooler when he splashes out 100 quid on a thermaltake armour case. ;)

The Ultimate budget rig you say?

He could get a much cheaper case than that.

Willing to spend 100 on a case and not 17 on a cooler is crazy.

These forums are nuts...
 
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markyp23 said:
Here's an excuse. I'm using stock heatsink with an E6400 at 3.2GHz load temps 55ish....
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55ish?

what are your actual temps under load?

I wouldn't be happy with a C2D at 3.2ghz not when a cheapo cooler could get 3.6-3.8ghzghz.

Stay in one night and treat yourself :D
 
I should get a cooler, but everybody says you can clock these a lot with stock cooler, so why not? Eventually I might get another cooler, but for the time being, it can wait..
 
Strange. I did everything to the letter, increased the system bus freq to 300, and my CPU is still the same at 2113ghz.. temps still the same too... 34/35. At first I mustn't have changed the thing to 300 and when I came back to desktop, it was running at 1600ghz.. but anyway, 300 just makes it run as it should, is that right?
 
zaza said:
Strange. I did everything to the letter, increased the system bus freq to 300, and my CPU is still the same at 2113ghz.. temps still the same too... 34/35. At first I mustn't have changed the thing to 300 and when I came back to desktop, it was running at 1600ghz.. but anyway, 300 just makes it run as it should, is that right?
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No, you didn't follow the instructions to the letter because you haven't done one or more of these;

In the Advanced Bios Features Menu, Disable all of the following: CPU Enhanced Halt (C1E), CPU Thermal Monitor 2(TM2), CPU EIST Function
 
I did ;) What I didn't do was press enter when I changed the freq, so it remained at 200... Actually, when I set it to manual, it was at 200, I'm sure. not 266. Anyway, I got it working fine, no problems. The Cpu when idle seems to drop down to 30/31c, I did the blend stress test with orthos and after 4 minutes the temps on TAT went to 50. This is only a 400mhz clock so far. I don't know what I am supposed to look for if it's unstable.. Does Orthos tell you? It says GO and is green, I presume it will say something else if it's not stable? Anyway, it seemed okay, no issues so far... How long should I run orthos for with just this small clock? 8 hours.. ?

what about memory, should I change timings and such, if so, where do I go?
Thanks
 
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