E6600 voltage problem

socreative · 2 Mar 2007 at 22:30

i have FSB on my P5W DH set to 410 with all mobo voltages set to max

i set the vcore to 1.6 but when windows boots up cpu-z shows only 1.213
what am i doing wrong ?

SpudMaster · 2 Mar 2007 at 23:30

its a bug in cpuz. on my e6600, when i set voltage in bios more than 1.45v cpuz doesnt read it properly and displays similar results to yours.

What cooling are you using btw? 1.6v is kinda high on a volts

edit - doh just seen your sig, water

hai · 2 Mar 2007 at 23:30

CPU-Z says 1.213 a lot, don't trust it

hai · 2 Mar 2007 at 23:31

He's using watercooling as in his sig I'm guessing, so 1.6 is probably the max he wants to put through.

socreative · 2 Mar 2007 at 23:48

currently set the voltage down to 1.55
tested with ORTHOS for 20 mins all seems ok

idle temps 33-35
100% load 52-54

i don't think i should try any further, my PC runs 24/7 , what do you reckon ?

water yes

can you guys give me some advice on the memory ?
this is what i get with my FSB set to 400 and the memory set to DDR2-800Mhz. I have 2Gb Cellshock PC6400

any suggestiong on speeding the memory up ?

netby · 3 Mar 2007 at 09:19

I mate

Cellshock run at 18-5-5-5 fine

or you could tray to run it at 12-4-4-4

no problem to tray

socreative · 3 Mar 2007 at 11:05

set it to 4-4-4-12-4 seems to be working fine
not sure if i'm doing it right , never played with memory before. does it mean it runs at 800Mhz still ?

WJA96 · 3 Mar 2007 at 11:23

The latest version of CPUz fixes some issues, possibly including the voltage one you're reporting.

netby · 3 Mar 2007 at 11:38

yes CellShock 6400 runs fine at 400mhz( DDR 800) fsb cpu/ ram at 1:1 at 12-4-4-4
however TRC should be between 20 and 42
seems you put it to 4,I think it´s to low

Cellshock PC2 6400 is a great RAM with Micron D9 chip´s ,wich means that could overclock at 1000mhz( and even more like 1050/ 1100mhz)
in that case with relaxed timmings( 18-5-5-5) and a little more Vdimm ( 2.3 / 2.35 / 2.40V)

a review on that
http://www.hwupgrade.com/articles/m...-800-an-11-kit-overclocking-comparison_8.html

note: GEIL ram PC 2 5400 and PC2 6400 used in this test is not the normal Geil LL stuff ( I think),because they said this ones have Micron chip s ,but Geil DDR2 Ultra normally have Elpida or Aeneon chip´s ( unless GEIL have changed their chip´s for Micron wich is nice

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socreative · 3 Mar 2007 at 12:45

pardon my noobism but how do i set it up right ?

netby · 3 Mar 2007 at 13:28

I mate

I have a P5B dlx ,so my bios ram settings are not exactly the same

your first pic is ok
write recovery time is set to 4 ( could be 5 or 6) but 4 seems ok
the other settings are 12-4-4-4 wich are pretty good timmings for DDR 800

in the second pic I think you have to put Dram Frequency to 400 ( instead of auto) in order it works at 1:1 with tre frequency of the cpu ,wich is set to 400 too

the vdimm is set to 2.2V( wich is the default of Cellshock)
for DDR 800 I think this is enough

if you overclock more the ram( like 450 / 500mhz) then you could need to do a little more vdimm ( like 2.3 / 2.4V)

anyway a 3600mhz in a E6600 is a very good overclock,specially on that board( intel 975 can not get as high fsb as 965 chipset)if it is Orthos stable

but i think you could reach more fsb on that board( i´m not sure though)
my P5B does 475/480fsbx8 easily

w3bbo · 3 Mar 2007 at 21:48

socreative said:
set it to 4-4-4-12-4 seems to be working fine
not sure if i'm doing it right , never played with memory before. does it mean it runs at 800Mhz still ?

Your memory is way under spec there. Yours is currently set at 600mhz(300x2), your memory is specified to run at 800mhz(400x2).