Approach to overclccking

beast · 22 Dec 2006 at 23:15

I've come to a decision that I only want my E6600 to be overclocked to exactly 3GHZ. From the signatures on here I gather this will be rather easy! But Am I better off just finding out what the FSB is for that overclock and entering that amount in the BIOS, or do you have to just keep increasing the FSB in small increments and testing frequently?

furnace · 22 Dec 2006 at 23:52

each cpu will overclock slightly differently, so you should go up in small notches

malccy · 23 Dec 2006 at 11:25

Remember to test it for stability - a good overclock is nothing if it's not stable.

Cob · 23 Dec 2006 at 11:38

3Ghz will be simple for an e6600. It might even do it on stock volts. Go straight in at 375x8 and test stability.

Bomag · 23 Dec 2006 at 15:40

Since the 6600 has a 9 multi I would go 333*9. It would require less volts on the chipset and some boards don't like memory at greater than 1:1 at high FSB

thefishdude · 23 Dec 2006 at 17:27

my e6700 i just changed to 330mhx fsb in bios and is running stable at that at stock volts,