E6600 confusion . . .

PhillyDee

PhillyDee

PhillyDee

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Ive been running my E6600 @ 3.15 Ghz for quite some time now, and want to take it further. It has been running at 9x 350Mhz and the ram at 875 Mhz on my DS3 all at stock volts (1.325).

I tried in the past to take it up, but it always failed at 360mhz (3.2Ghz). I tried adding +.1 to vcore, g(MCH) (Chipset?) and FSB with no results. It used to boot into Vista and then just BSOD and die. Also tried this at 370 with no luck.

Today i thought, lets lower the mutiplier and see where to go from there. Im running at 410 FSB and 8x multi at 1.4v. (So i can take it a bit further.)
So whats at fault here. I lower the multi, and can take the FSB much much higher and therefore the cpu,what can be causing this? any idea? Its quite stable (15 mins orthos) though obviously more testing is needed when i turn it up a bit faster. Ive never overclocked the ram yet, kept it as close to stock as possible (820mhz now).

Any pointers?
 
Could be the motherboard, i think after 400 the strap changes and chipset timings are more lax, i've had 2 DS3s so far that hit the wall at around 375-378MHz but came back alive after 400Mhz, you'd have run about 430MHz last i remembered to get back roughly the performance of around 380ish, so was the case in my benchmarks.
 
Would you forsee any problems working with an 8x multi instead of a 9x, apart from the FSB limit for the chip / board / ram?
 
Nope, only little annoyances like windows reporting wrong cpu speed :D Check your my computer properties, bet it says 3.7 or 3.69Ghz or something to that effect? :D
 
Yeah, orthos says its 3780mhz. Its happy at 420 now . . . Lets go higher . . . Pump, pump, pump it up . . . . :D . I do so enjoy doing this . . .
 
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