E6300 and Asus P5N32 SE SLI overclock!

Arclite

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Hi

I thank everyone who have helped me ditch my old agp rig! Im glad to say that with your help i have finally built a new system. I have dumped my aging AGP rig and have built the following (not the best, but this is all i can afford at the moment):

Asus P5N32SE SLi Deluxe motherboard
Inter core 2 E6300 @ 1.86Ghz (at the moment)
Geforce 7600gt ( not great but its a start)
2x512mb corsair DDR2 PC6400 @ 800mhz
Enermax 535W (sli ready) PSU
2x80gb sata II @ 7200rpm WD HDD in Raid 0+1.

Now my question, As my system is fairly new ( 2 days old )i really dont want to try overcloking on my own, so i would really appreciate if someone could direct me in the right direction. By that i mean, a step by step guide to overclocking my C2D to stable clocks under stock cooler and keeping the rest of my configuarion in mind. Perhaps an internet link or from your own experience.

Thanks in Advance
 
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Welcome to the club conroe :) Thats a nice rig in all fairness, the 7600GT is a ncie card, that will overclock some as well :D

What CPU cooler are you useing? Stock is not great but it will OC to around 2800mhz.

Im not sure with overclocking useing the asus bios but look for the following things, MCH Voltage +0.1, PCI Express freq 100, Mem multiplier 2, hmm and increase the FSB slightly, with a 1:1 ratio of the ram:fsb you will need to have 400 x 7 and that will give you 800mhz ram and 2800mhz cpu but im talking aload of rubbish now so wait for some one else lol
 
Hi,

Yes i have oced my 7600gt to 600/1600mhz (from stock (560/1400) running o.k at the moment.

Anyway, the motherboard has numerous tweaking options at boot up but im not sure what exactly to do there, however a windows based programme called Ai Booster was provided by Asus. Looks easy to work with But kinda hesitant to fiddle around, not sure what to do.


Thanks in advance
 
Hi,

It is a very easy board to work with, but you are very unlikely to get a mega-clock out of it. The NForce 4 chipset just doesn't clock as well as some others, but never mind.

1. Boot into the BIOS and Press F5 to load the Setup defaults
2. Restart the machine
3. Arrow across to Power and then arrow down to Hardware Monitor. This will allow you check your CPU and motherboard temperatures. They should be somewhere between 20C and 40C. If any are higher than that then you should be loking at the CPU cooler and or possibly you need better case cooling.
4. Assuming those are fine use the left arrow to take you back to Advanced
5. Under Advanced, find CPU Configuration. Find Intel Speedstep Technology and set it to Disabled.
7. Press Escape to go back to the Advanced menu and go to Jumperfree Configuration
8. Set AI Overclocking to Manual
9. Set CPU Lock Free to Enabled
10. You now have a couple more options - Select Spread Spectrum Control and set everything to Disabled.
11. Press Escape and select Performance Options. Set FSB Optimise Mode to Disabled and Memory Optimise Mode to Disabled.
12. Set System Clock Mode to Manual
13. You should now get the option to set the System (CPU) FSB. On the early boards this is limited to FSB 400/1600, later revisions allowed 450/1800. Annoyingly, the FSB is shown as it's quad multiplied figure, so 266FSB = 1066FSB. Set it to 1200 to begin.
14. The Memory is theoretically unlinked on these boards, but in reality there is a degree of linkage. You have good, fast RAM so just set this to 1600 from the outset.
15. Set the memory timings to manual and enter your values - 4, 4, 4, 12, 20, 1T - try 20 for the tRC to start then reduce it to 16 or 12 if it works fine.
16. Press Escape again and set the Memory voltage to your memory voltage requirements (probably 2.0 or 2.1V).
17. Press F10 to save and reboot and then check that's all stable in windows. If it is, keep tweaking up the CPU FSB until you hit the maximum it will boot into windows. You may be very lucky and it will hit 1600 or 1800, but I suspect that it will stop booting somewhere in the mid 1400's.

Try it and report back what happens and we can do some fine tuning!
 
Thanks again,

It is called Enhanced C1 control ( the caption reads: if set to auto then bios would auto check cpu's capability to enable C1E support. IN C1E enabled mode, the cpu power consumption would be lower in idle state). There are only two options here, Auto or disable?
 
Disabled. You need to stop the CPU dropping the multiplier automatically. On the X6800's it's done with CPU Lock Free, on yours it's C1E.
 
okay strange thing here, i have set the system clock mode to manual and now i have two more options: first is fsb clock @1066, second memory clock @ 800. When i press enter on either of them noting happens, i cant change them?
 
Thanks


okay have done first run, fsb running at 2100MHZ @ 26C, using Ai booster and cpu z to monitor it. One question though, do i need to change my cpu voltage at all?
 
Oh - and use TAT or Coretemp to monitor your CPU temperatures as the other monitoring programs are inaccurate.

Are you going to try for 2.4GHz?
 
Arclite said:
FSB 1300 ran ok but after turning to 1400 system failed to boot up. what should i do now to get it back up?
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Oops - overlapping posts! This might sound daft, but try 1500 or 1600. There are 'bad' combinations of FSB and RAM speed. Sometimes it will boot up higher rather than lower.
 
I pressed ctrl few times to get to boot up, it says overclocking failed or overvoltage failed, then press f1 to run setup or f2 to load defaults, i guess its not gonna be 2.8ghz
 
To boot it back up you may have to reset the CMOS (try pressing F1 when you start the machine).
 
okay i have reduced it back to 1300 fsb and 800 memory working now, i guess something is not right here. 1400-1600 fsb didnt work.
 
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