E6600 Vcore

ASH1982

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Up to 3.4ghz at the moment but im having to use 1.45v in bios... CPU-Z reports lower in windows but im trusting the bios

Is 1.45v too much?

Nobody seems to be able to tell me what the max Vcore should be for this core
 
What's your cooling?

Temperatures are more likely to be an issue unless you're on phase, so make sure that it stays under about 60 when under full load.

1.45V is certainly safe enough and you shouldn't have any problems upto 1.55V as long your temps are ok.

Jokester
 
Well i tryed 3.4ghz and it took 1.45v vcore (bios) and that froze on prime after 15mins
Works fine at 3.2ghz and 1.4v vcore, can throw anything I like at it and it just takes it

Temps are hovering around the 50oC mark at load and im air cooled
 
Thanks its been really easy to get it to 3.2ghz just seems to want to eat voltage if I want to go slightly over 3.2ghz :(
 
ASH1982 said:
Thanks its been really easy to get it to 3.2ghz just seems to want to eat voltage if I want to go slightly over 3.2ghz :(
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Ah same with mine.... 3.2Ghz on 1.4v (probably go lower, but max load temp is only 50, idle 32), 3.6Ghz takes 1.65v and 3.8Ghz needs 1.70v or so get stable (Max load temps 70, idle 35).
 
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ASH1982 said:
Well i tryed 3.4ghz and it took 1.45v vcore (bios) and that froze on prime after 15mins
Works fine at 3.2ghz and 1.4v vcore, can throw anything I like at it and it just takes it

Temps are hovering around the 50oC mark at load and im air cooled
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are these settings just changing the fsb and the vcore changed then in the bios?
 
ASH1982 said:
Well i tryed 3.4ghz and it took 1.45v vcore (bios) and that froze on prime after 15mins
Works fine at 3.2ghz and 1.4v vcore, can throw anything I like at it and it just takes it

Temps are hovering around the 50oC mark at load and im air cooled
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what are you using to measure temps? if you arent already use coretemp or intels TAT for more accurate readings :)
 
I'm at 3.6 with vcore at 1.55 (shows 1.51 actual). Load temps in TAT are around 55c, so I'm happy with that. You should keep going a bit further - you could probably reach 3.6 easily. I feel that 1.55 is about as high as I want to go on air cooling, as the 55c load leaves a bit of headroom for those warmer days ;)

Although knowing what I'm like, I may be tempted to try for 3.8 with a higher vcore at some point :D
 
Im alreayd using TAT thanks

Ive hit 55oc when ive got the heating on full blast and CPU under full load already so dont really want to increase voltages any further
 
My e6600 can run @ 3.5ghz with stock volt`s when i was on air cooling,try putting you ram volt`s up a bit.
 
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My e6600 can run @ 3.5ghz with stock volt`s when i was on air cooling,try putting you ram volt`s up a bit.
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I think I need to do the pencil mod on my Asus P5N-E as the vdroop is horrendous. (0.09v!)

With my E6600 @ 3.6 I need 1.55v which drops to about 1.46 under load.

Any tips on what pencil and how many strokes you did?

Cheers

Mike

<edit> forgot to mention my temps are approx 36 deg idle and around 63 deg under orthos load using tuniq tower as approx 1800rpm. I'm a bit uncomfortable with these temps but to get 3.6mhz I have to live with it
 
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hmm...my 4300 gets to 72C load with 1.425V !! and thats with a vanessa-L

**should have never sold my big-typhoon**
 
Been doing a bit of testing and had to revise my settings. I thought my temps were steady at 63 deg. Well with the room warm central heating on this weekend I looked through the temp history and the cores had peaked at 76 deg!!

So have gone down from 400 X 9 (3600) to 425 X 8 (3400) and now running memory at 425 mhz 5-5-5-15 1T. This has let me knock the vcore from 1.55v to 1.4v +100mv.

At these settings have run Orthos stable for 2 hours (need to do an overnight run) at max temps at around 65 deg

Deks
 
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Been doing a bit of testing and had to revise my settings. I thought my temps were steady at 63 deg. Well with the room warm central heating on this weekend I looked through the temp history and the cores had peaked at 76 deg!!

So have gone down from 400 X 9 (3600) to 450 X 8 (3400) and now running memory at 425 mhz 5-5-5-15 1T. This has let me knock the vcore from 1.55v to 1.4v +100mv.

At these settings have run Orthos stable for 2 hours (need to do an overnight run) at max temps at around 65 deg

Deks
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450 x 8 = 3600
 
Used this in another topic, quite a good guide really - cant find the damn link, but I saved this as a word file for reference.
E6600 – Maximum Volts / Temps

1.3525V is the maximum recommend +10% giving just shy of 1.5V (1.488V).

0.05V above the 10% is assumed to give an average increase of 3C in temp for an overclock of about 100Mhz

Maximum sustainable safe temp is 65C, 80C is throttle temp and 85C is thermal limit.

Data courtesy of Tomshardware.
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Nelly said:
Used this in another topic, quite a good guide really - cant find the damn link, but I saved this as a word file for reference.
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These figures tie in quite close to what I found with my experiments. Altho I am on 1.4 +100mv (1.5v) I suppose it depends on how good cooling is. As far as I'm aware I don't go above 70 deg on throttle which was my main concern.

The only thing now is to keep my eye on temps as summer approches

I might even try to drop my vcore volts one more notch to see if its stable

Deks
 
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