clocking my quad

Gerard · 26 Nov 2007 at 22:47

Ben using the following settings for months now with the quad at 3.2

Just want to know the best way to eek some more out of it, been on the amd fence for ages so it feels a little weird clocking up an intel chip again.

Gerard · 27 Nov 2007 at 16:00

Anyone? Really just looking for some settings.

sammie377 · 27 Nov 2007 at 16:10

Need to have some info:

Motherboard
CPU model
RAM make and speed
PSU
AIR or Water cooled
Case

Gerard · 27 Nov 2007 at 16:16

asus p5k
q6600 b3
OCZ PC2-8500C5 1066MHz 4x 1 gig sticks
Thermaltake 850
Air artic freezer (soon to be tuniq tower)
lian li v1100 plus

sammie377 · 27 Nov 2007 at 16:30

Gerard said:
asus p5k
q6600 b3
OCZ PC2-8500C5 1066MHz 4x 1 gig sticks
Thermaltake 850
Air artic freezer (soon to be tuniq tower)
lian li v1100 plus

Ok

We need to start by reducing the RAMs speed, you won't get much more with 4x 1bg sticks, so use a divider to take the ram speed below 1000.
Then up the FSB by 10MHz then run either prime 95 or Orthos or OCCT to test for stability, then repeat until it fails you then up the CPU voltage by a notch and retest keep upping it until it's stable then away you go upping the FSB until it fails again then repeat.

You need to keep an eye on your temps 70c is where I leave it for 24/7

You will come to a stage where you will need more and more volts for less and less increase in MHz that's where you are near the end, the temps rise quickly when volts are added.

Hope this gets you going, it should take about a week of messing to find the sweet spot, then you make a note of your settings and do the same with your RAM.