E6600 overclocking help please

sativa1874 · 17 Sep 2006 at 15:40

Hi this is my first attempt at overclocking and to honest i am struggling to get my head round all the guides and stuff.

All i have done so far is raise the Bus speed to 300 and changed the pci frequency to 100 but im not sure what do do with my ram or voltages.

Could anyone advise me if i should change aything else in the bios?

Should i have better ram for overclocking?
Any advice would be great as its frustrating knowing i can get more out my cpu but i dont have the confidence to do it :confused:

thanks

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Jokester · 17 Sep 2006 at 15:45

First thing is change the CPU Vcore Voltage to something other than Auto, 1.35V should be a good start I think.

Jokester

sativa1874 · 17 Sep 2006 at 16:25

Thanks done ive done that. Is it ok to have multiplier on 9 or should i lower it and up the cpu frequency. I only have the option of between 6-9 on the multiplier.

Jokester · 17 Sep 2006 at 16:27

Keep it on 9 at the moment and start increasing the FSB slowly (reducing the RAM divider as you go to keep it in spec).

Jokester

sativa1874 · 17 Sep 2006 at 16:39

Jokester said:
Keep it on 9 at the moment and start increasing the FSB slowly (reducing the RAM divider as you go to keep it in spec).

Jokester

Thanks, To reduce the ram divider do i lower the DRAM frequency?

Jokester · 17 Sep 2006 at 16:42

Yes, DRAM frequency, not sure if that board shows the actaully RAM speed or just the divider valve (at the moment it looks like the RAM is running 1:1 with the FSB).

Jokester

sativa1874 · 17 Sep 2006 at 17:14

Thanks for the help Jokester
Sorry for all the questions but i just ran sp2004 smallffts for 30 mins with no errors and cpu core never got above 47c is that ok and what sort of temps are considered unstable?

Jokester · 17 Sep 2006 at 17:16

Once you're hitting 60C in my opinion.

Jokester

sativa1874 · 18 Sep 2006 at 22:26

I have raised it to 2779mhz with the vcore at 1.36 when i run sp2004 i get no errors and temp stays at 47c, when i try to run prime95 on both cores at realtime it runs ok but i cant do anything else as everything else freezes so i have to reboot.
How do i find out if there has been errors if i cant stop them running?

Jokester · 18 Sep 2006 at 22:30

If you run it realtime, it will use all your CPU cycles, so it will make your system extremely sluggish. It will only stop if you manually stop it or if it errors.

Jokester

FreeStream · 18 Sep 2006 at 22:32

Frist update to 614 BIOS from Asus website.

Then:

400 FSB
7x CPU Multi
1.25V
800Mhz Memory divider
2.2V mem
1.45V FSB Term
1.55V NB
1.6V SB

Once thats done (stable), 1.375V CPU and a 8x multi. you can try for 400x9 aswell, but that will be pushing it.

Once past 401 mhz it sets 1333mhz boot strap which - looser chipset timings = worse performance (by about another 20mhz FSB).

sativa1874 · 18 Sep 2006 at 22:34

Thanks for reply but how can i stop it if i cant move my cursor?

sativa1874 · 18 Sep 2006 at 22:37

Concorde Rules said:
Frist update to 614 BIOS from Asus website.

Then:

400 FSB
7x CPU Multi
1.25V
800Mhz Memory divider
2.2V mem
1.45V FSB Term
1.55V NB
1.6V SB

Once thats done (stable), 1.375V CPU and a 8x multi. you can try for 400x9 aswell, but that will be pushing it.

Once past 401 mhz it sets 1333mhz boot strap which - looser chipset timings = worse performance (by about another 20mhz FSB).

I have the 509 bios i only have the P5B