Another E6420 conroe overclocking question

WJA96 · 30 Apr 2007 at 05:39

zaza said:
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.

That's fine.

Kaiju said:
Tcase/Tjunction

--70--/--85--85-- Shutdown
--65--/--80--80-- Throttle
--60--/--75--75-- Hot
--55--/--70--70-- Warm
--50--/--65--65-- N
--45--/--60--60-- O
--40--/--55--55-- R
--35--/--50--50-- M
--30--/--45--45-- A
--25--/--40--40-- L

Mid 70's is the max i'd hit as you don't know how hot your room temps will be, especially with Summer coming along.

zaza said:
This is only a 400mhz clock so far.

Why do you think everyone is saying get an aftermarket cooler? And a 400MHz clock is almost 20% - think how many AMD CPU's anyone ever managed to overclock by 20%?

zaza said:
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.. ?

Yes. 8 Hours. And you'll know what it looks like because it will say STOPPED in black on red letters and it'll beep in a most annoying way.

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

If you're pressing CTRL+F1 in the main screen like the instructions say the memory timings are all there to be adjusted in MIT.

I wouldn't adjust the memory timings until after I'd finished adjusting the CPU as the CPU FSB will dictate how slack the RAM timings have to be.

matthew2456 · 30 Apr 2007 at 12:16

hows it doing then?

zaza · 30 Apr 2007 at 15:45

I've got it to 2664 now, and I've been running orthos for 4 hours so far, the temps are idle at 28-35 and when orthos runs at the highest 52.

snazzy_dazzy · 1 May 2007 at 00:57

mine is at 3.7ghz with ram @ 1275mhz

matthew2456 · 1 May 2007 at 01:09

snazzy_dazzy said:
mine is at 3.7ghz with ram @ 1275mhz

wow

how many volts and whats your cooling?

WJA96 · 1 May 2007 at 06:39

snazzy_dazzy said:
mine is at 3.7ghz with ram @ 1275mhz

Brilliant.

You have to post an Orthos shot to prove it's stable if you're claiming a meg-clock like that though. Keeps the riff-raff out

zaza · 1 May 2007 at 18:52

Well, my overclock results suggest I could get to perhaps 3 with stock no problem, but I think I'll take note of a better cooler.. What do you think I'd get with the amanda cooler?