Help with overclocking

Nic Miller · 19 Apr 2007 at 09:22

Just a quick question, I have started to overclock my system - P5N32E-sli, 2Gb GeIL, E6600.

Have done the following:

Set everything to manual and disabled all the usual suspects eg spread, CE1
Have set the FSB:RAM to unlinked
Put FSB at 1,290
RAM to 800
Put RAM voltage up to 2.1v
Put timings as 4-4-4-12 2T - everything else to auto
Put 1.2V HT to 1.3
All other voltages except to auto

This gives me an overclock to 2,902 Mhz and Orthos priority 10 runs with no errors (did for 3 hours last night until I stopped it) - although the system slowed to a snails pace while it was doing it - normal?

My question concerns the Vcore voltage - it is set to auto and with the above settings the computer puts it on 1.38-1.41 (measured by AI probe) - am concerned that if I up the FSB any further the voltage will rise to high - should I set it manually and if so what to?

I only want 3Ghz clock so didn't expect the Vcore to even get as high as it has now!

Any other suggestions welcomed.

Thanks

Nic

Nic Miller · 19 Apr 2007 at 13:01

Any experienced overclockers got any suggestions?

Nic Miller · 19 Apr 2007 at 13:28

Is orthos meant to totally slow the system down when running?

Nic Miller · 19 Apr 2007 at 14:38

Just pushed to 3Ghz and set Vcore to 1.375 to start with. Seems stable and am happy with that - only prob is I still cannot get 3DMark to run - just crashes system. SO I don't know if my system is actually faster !

Just don't want it to lock up as last time I had to reformat the HDD ! - although that was using AI booster from within windows.

Cheers

Nic

Nic Miller · 19 Apr 2007 at 17:56

I couldn't get 3Dmark to run even before I overclocked. Tried 05 and 06 and reinstalled and downloaded a few times to discount those.

Their website mentions this as a possible problem and talks about running it with -nosysteminfo at the end of the target line - but didn't understand what they meant or how to do it.

System is stable in Orthos using priority 10 on small FFt and blend and oblivion for hours !

Bit concerned it doesn't want to play though as it is putting doubts into my mind about my hardware - although it all seems to run fine with no crashes, lockups etc.

Cheers

Nic