few o/cing questions:

[SooTyLaD]

how do

finally getting back into overclocking after 3 years of shuttle ownership (say no more) and its great fun but tbh, i don't really know what i'm doing anymore

heres my spec:

• Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB)
• Noctua NH-U12F (Socket LGA775/754/939/940/AM2) HS/F
• Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3P (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
• CellShock 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2 PC2-6400C4 800MHz Dual Channel Kit
• BFG GeForce 8800 GTS OC2 320MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express)

i followed the overclocking guide in that massice "DS3 owners guide" thread, in other words i did this:

• switched of the stuff i didn't need such as visualisation technology
• set vcore to 1.45v
• set DDR voltage to +0.4
• set PCI-E freq. to 100
• set the memory multiplyer to 2
• set DRAM timings to 5-5-5-15 in an attempt to use slack timings so that i'm only stressing the CPU to begin with - is this the correct technique?
• set the fsb to 333, and the system ran orthos quite happily for 5 hours...

THEN...

i upped the fsb to 378 to go for the fables 1ghz overclock (thats all i changed to begin with) and it booted, ran sisoft benchmarks, ran 3dmark etc. but then failed orthos after a few minutes, so following protocol i went back to the bios and upped to voltage to 1.475...

the upon the restart the computer made all sorts of beeps and reset, then repeated, beep, reset, beep, reset... so i reset the bios and went back a few steps...

basically i would like to know the best way to procede from some of you overclocking gurus want 3.4 gig so bad it hurts

 

[Chris Beard]

Overclock slowly. Try 3GHz as a starting point then up the frequency slowly (20Mhz at a time or so until you hit instability then go back and do 5 Mhz, then 1Mhz etc.). Sometimes a lower voltage will get you further rather than a higher one.

Haven't overclocked a C2D so it might be helpful if someone else could offer some input?

 

[SooTyLaD]

i'm currently stable (well, 5 and a half hours on orthos stable) at 3.2 @ 1.4v (400x8) - would the general procedure be to procede with higher clock speeds or whack the multiplier up?

then am i right in saying once i've got a stable cpu clock that i'm happy with, i move on to tightening up the ram? currently its pretty slack at 800MHz 5-5-5-15 (CellShock 4-4-4-12 2.2V rated sticks)

forgot how damn addictive overclocking is

 

[doctoe2260]

Try reading the 'beginners guide to overclocking' sticky. It's awesome, basically you need to find your max stable FSB first, using multipliers to keep the processor and ram speed low. Once you have that you can start applying different multi's.