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Have I damaged it?

CPU-Zebra

CPU-Zebra

CPU-Zebra

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Ok, I was OCing just a minute ago and I accidently booted with 1.45V Vcore and a +.100MV offset. I then got BSOD and then realised I had done that in the BIOS. Could this brief time maybe putting about 1.56V through my E6600 have done any damage to it, I checked Coretemp when I was at 1.45V +.100MV and it was at about 35 something, I'm now back at stock everything and it seems a little funny but I'm just a bit of a worryer, please put me at ease :eek:.
 
Ok, thanks for putting my mind at ease. I am not going to run it at that, I was putting the Vcore to 1.45V and that should have been 1.35V with +.100MV but I set it to 1.45V and then turned on +.100 offset after without thinking. Obviously under load on startup it went to about 1.56V but it was only at that for about 1 minute maximum. I am having real trouble getting past 3ghz, I can do 3ghz with my memory on linked in sync mode running at 675mhz which is slower than stock at 800mhz. Will 675mhz memory affect performance in games, or will a 3ghz overclock more than compensate for it? If it is worth it I will run it at that, as really this is my first overclock and I'm just testing the water, and I've seen with my motherboard I don't want to have to spend ages tweaking, so I'm going to hold back until I buy a more expensive motherboard that will ovrclock a bit easier.
 
Well thing is I have tried quite hard to get higher and it seems whatever I do it's not stable. and I mean it either won't post or boot into windows and if it does it freezes pretty quickly without even stress testing. I've gone to 1.45V (1.35V +.100MV) and it still hard to get it to boot. Only thing I haven't changed is NB voltage which someone has said to do but I'm not sure what to, and also what is the stock NB voltage for my board, I asked in the P5N-E thread but as soon as I did the thread died down again. Basically best I could do was 3.03ghz (1350mhz, 336x9) and memory linked and sync at 675mhz and stock timings, stock volts apart from 1.35V with +.100MV Vcore. I did a 10 hour stress test, 2 instances on prime95 doing small FFTs, temps were 52 after 10 hours, and no errors.
 
Which voltage, Vcore? And your saying 400mhz, so 1600mhz FSB? That is what I was aiming for so I could get memory at 800mhz but it just took me so long just to get 3ghz stable, I knida gave up.
 
Well there's the problem, I was advised to up my NB voltage, but I don't know what stock is for my board, it's on auto now and I have settings on like 1.3XX to 1.7XX, and from what I know about Vcore, you can select a volatge less than stock (seeing as various chips need different voltages) but can you go lower than stock volts on a NB or is the lowest setting stock? I asked in the P5N-E thread what it was after someone told me to raise it but no one told me the stock for my board. Thanks for the help.
 
Ok thanks, and how do I check the temps, speedfan? I get readings on speedfan like this:
Temp1:38
Temp2:37
Temp3:24
HD0:33
Temp1:40
Core 0:29
Core 1:31
And that's on stock at low CPU usage (like media player internet and speedfan and some minor apps in background). Which is the NB temp? BTW I have 3 fans, are the first 3 temps readings from those fans or just probes on components in my PC monitering ambient?
 
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