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Geting my E6600 stable at 3.5Ghz

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Mobo- Gigabyte 964P-DS3
Ram- Kingston HyperX 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 8500C5 1066MHz Dual Channel

CPU Multiplier: 9x
FSB: 389
PCI-E: auto
Memory timings: 5-5-5-18
Memory Multiplier: 2.5
Memory speed 975Mhz
System Voltage Control: [Manual]
DDR2 OverVoltage Control: [+0.1V]
PCI-E OverVoltage Control: [Manual]
FSB OverVoltage Control: [+0.2V]
(G)MCH OverVoltage Control [+0.2V]
Cpu Overvoltage - [1.575v]
=3.5Ghz (stable under prime 95 for 16mins then core1 fails core 2 keeps going is that normal?)
Temps never go over 70c.

anyone help geting it stable???
 
If it's not your memory, then it's your CPU... you're already putting 1.575 volts through it, so I think you pretty much reached your limit on air (I presume).
 
That's a lot of voltage for a E6600 that is'nt even stable at 3.5Ghz. My old one did 3.6Ghz with 1.45v and 3.8Ghz with 1.5v. Drop back to 3.4Ghz and see how low you can drop the voltage before it get's unstable.

Lock your pci-e frequency to 100 or 101 as well.

On a side note, you are only giving your ram 1.9v (normal on a Gigabyte is 1.8v and then you gave it an extra 0.1v=1.9v). Should'nt your ram need 2.2v?
 
That's a lot of voltage for a E6600 that is'nt even stable at 3.5Ghz. My old one did 3.6Ghz with 1.45v and 3.8Ghz with 1.5v. Drop back to 3.4Ghz and see how low you can drop the voltage before it get's unstable.

Lock your pci-e frequency to 100 or 101 as well.

On a side note, you are only giving your ram 1.9v (normal on a Gigabyte is 1.8v and then you gave it an extra 0.1v=1.9v). Should'nt your ram need 2.2v?

Ok ill try that later.The ram only needs 2.2v when its running at 1066Mhz but for some reason i cant get it over 1000Mhhz
 
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if anything theres too much voltage for that chip, its probably causing it to overheat thereby giving errors. I clocked one the other day to 3.4ghz and only needed 1.3875v. Also pci-e should never be on auto as it may increase with your fsb.
 
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