First time Clocker

[Kubix]

First time Clocker (needs advice)

I have a E6700 at stock paired with 2GB Geil Ram and an Asus Commando Motherboard. I was looking to push this a bit further but tbh i dont even know where to start.

the cpu sits about 28 idle just now on an Arctic cooler 7 hsf, any tips or advice anyone can give me would be great.

Thanks

 

[Cob]

It's pretty easy. Set your ram divider to 1:1/ddr533 and start raising your FSB til it stops posting. Then up your vcore and continue.

But have a read through the sticky at the very top of this forum.

 

[gbdtil1]

Noob question:

Why set the divider to 1:1 / 533? Is he not better off setting to unlinked and pushing both components as far as they can go?

In real world performance does a 1:1 ratio actually make much difference over a ratio such as (as I currently have on a different set up) 11:16?

Welcome your views

I have the same processor (2.67Ghz) and have 2 gig of Ballistix 800mhz ram. Would I be better off underclocking my ram to 533, saving and then setting to linked before cranking up fsb? Not even sure my mobo / bios will allow this (p5n32 sli se deluxe) as I'm sure that the ram frequency will revert back to 800mhz the moment I set to 'linked'.

 

[Cob]

The ASUS Commando is an Intel P965 chipset board, and can't run the memory unlinked or under 1:1.

So setting it to 1:1 takes the memory out of the equation (well as much as you can with linked memory) when trying to find the highest CPU FSB.

Once the highest FSB has been found you can start fiddling with the memory multipliers (I think they're listed as 533mhz, 667mhz, 800mhz etc in the P965 ASUS BIOS's).

You yourself are not limited to the memory divider/multiplier settings as you have an nVidia 680i chipset board and can run your memory unlinked to the CPU FSB.

 

[Kubix]

should mention my Ram is PC6400C4 800Mhz, so i should set this back to 533?

 

[Cob]

In that case you can run your E6600 at upto 400x9 on the ddr533 memory divider before your memory starts to be overclocked.