How to fry a chip...

holymoly

holymoly

holymoly

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Hi All,

Being an overclocking noob I was wondering if you could give me a few pointers.

I have read the overclocking guide which was very helpful.
Was just wondering what sort of speeds I could expect from the bundle below which Im running at present befire I fry it later on tonight!!!

Intel Core 2 DUO LGA775 E6600 2.40GHz Retail
Abit IP35-E
2GB Corsair XMS2-6400C5 DDR2 Dual Channel Kit
Nvidia 8800GTS 320 <---- more scared of overclocking the gcard than the cpu :eek:

Im using the stock fan and hs.
 
It depends. Stepping of the CPU will be a major factor, the RAM will do 400 fine so that makes 9*400=3.6GHz. The board should do 400 so that means providing your CPU will do that kind of speed, why not? Most E6600s do 3GHz, mainly the older ones. Aim for 3.2GHz, but 3.4-3.6 are also attainable if the stepping is good.

A big factor for you is temperature under load, pushing it too hard might result in the CPU being unstable so that will probably be the deciding factor on how far you can push it. Don't go above 1.45-1.5v for 24/7 usage either, this should raise the temperature further.
 
I clocked a customers E6600 @ 3.33Ghz on stock cooler with just a small increase in vCore. Giving them a 6.66Ghz computer :eek: :p
 
Hehe 6.66Ghz, I could imagine a rep at PC World saying soemthing like that:

"Get this quad core sir, it has 4 processor thingies in it, so that's like...9.2Ghz!"
 
Well on software that is properly multi-threaded (like vidomi) then effectivly they do indeed have 6.66Ghz all-be-it 2 x 3.33 Ghz of cycles.

I called the computer Damien as well ! lol
 
V3g3tto said:
Hehe 6.66Ghz, I could imagine a rep at PC World saying soemthing like that:

"Get this quad core sir, it has 4 processor thingies in it, so that's like...9.2Ghz!"
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on the well known auction site they all seem to list them like that now, seen some at over 12ghz on pre built rigs.
 
Happy days :) Thanks for the replies.

On further reading it seems like most of these will do 3Ghz at nearly stock levels.
Anything wrong with pushing it to 2.8Ghz to see if it will boot in at stock voltage ?
I will have to take a look at the chip to see what the stepping is. I bought the bundle in Sept 07 and put it together. I just havnt had the time to play with it properly until now.
 
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