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E6600 overclocking really that simple?

bobert50

bobert50

bobert50

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I've had my E6600 about a week now, havent really played with overclocking yet apart from briefly on the first night of having it. I tried just upping the FSB to 1333 which would take it upto about 3ghz? (since most people on here are reporting that most can at least do 3.2ghz i thought it'd be reasonably safe). Saved and restarted and it wouldn't post, so had to take the battery out to reset it and havent tried since. I'm taking it that i didn't have success because i didnt up the vcore? (still set at the standard 1.288v. Is there anything else i should do? Would best bet be to wack the vcole upto about 1.35 or so and then try again ?

Spec:

E6600
Abit Fatal1ty FP-IN9 SLi nForce 650
Geil 6400 2 gig
 
It should be easy - it certainly was for me. Have you looked on the thread on the motherboards forum for your motherboard. There may be some hints on there as to what settings are best.

First thing I would do would be to check that speedstep and C1E are disabled. Then unlink your memory so you know that's not a factor. Then just raise the fsb slowly - I went from 1066 to 1200 to 1333 to 1500 then finally to 1600. You should raise it with all voltages at stock, then when you become unstable, up the vcore a step and retest. My vcore is at 1.55, which is safe with the temps I'm getting. Try to keep load temps below 60c. You may need to raise some of the other voltages such as the cpu fsb, spp and mcp. Mine are at 1.3, 1.5 and 1.6 respectively. This way you should reach a good overclock pretty quickly. use TAT and/or coretemp to monitor temps, and orthos to stress test (you need 8-12 hours stable to be confident of a truly stable overclock).

Also may be worth finding out if you have the latest/best bios for your board.
 
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Thanks for the reply.

I've messed about a bit now! needed the vcore upped to get anywhere really but i've happily upped it from 2.4ghz to 3.25ghz so i'll leave it there for the time being. Getting 9450 now in 3dmark06 (8800gts 320mb) which seems pretty reasonable!
 
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