Intel E6600 C2D 2.4GHZ

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I would like to know how people are getting 3.2 from these cpu's I had never over clocked mine or tried until a while back and could only get it to 2.7 with the Abit AW9D-Max MB if I try to increase any thing like fsb to say 8x 400 and up cpu volt to 1.4 ram volt 2.1 it just refuses to boot, I have to clock it through the windows prog uguru just to get 300mhz over stock, so if any one has an idea of the board I use and could help with all the settings in the diff areas I would be eternally gratefull, I have been told all these chips should do 3.2 min, very frustrated lol...:(:confused:
 
If it will do 3.2 it would be sold as such...

Overclocking is never guaranteed regardless of what anyone says.

It could be that the PSU is not up to the extra load, or the current BIOS you are using, or the cooler on the CPU...
 
My psu as always coped well with what has been thrown at it and all voltages when checked are always spot on or just over, so like the 12 volt rails they are spot on for the graphics and such so I do not think its the psu, Not saying I am not gratefull to your reply which I am thank you very much.:)
p:s The bios is the latest one they have but is about a year old its number 17..
 
I had 3.8Ghz from mine but it was a good stepping SL9ZL. Ran it full time at 3.6Ghz (9x400) with 1.45v vcore. Did'nt have to touch any other voltages. Motherboard was a Asus P5E X38. With your board you may have to increase NB voltage as well. Don't forget that when you increase the fsb you increase the speed of the ram as well. You need to adjust the ram speed by using the ram dividers/dram frequency as well.
 
When i had the E6600 i was running it at 3.60 GHZ on a Asus P5Q Deluxe P45 24/7 it just depends on which stepping you get, what model your motherboard is and what your CPU cooling is like and case cooling also helps.
 
Tbh an E6600 should be doing atleast 3ghz on stock volts (ofcourse YMMV).


I would look at your memory settings to ensure that it's not being pushed over spec as you raise the FSB.
 
I've had a quick play with a Abit AW9D-Max MB and I didn't rate it that highly tbh

I think I had similar issues getting a E6600 over 400fsb with it.

In my old P5K, I had the fsb up to 530Mhz
 
I had my 6600 at 3.4 for over a year. I was on a 680i though. If you set all voltages to "auto" and bump it up you will see if you can get higher.
 
pastymuncher said:
Bad idea as a lot of boards will overvolt components. Always better to set voltages manually.
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Yes of course but if you set it to auto you will see if your chip is capable of reaching a higher speed, once you find this out gradually lower the voltages until you find the minimum.

It was the only way i could bump my e6600 over 3.2ghz without spending hours doing testing.
 
I had a E6600 in that board - form memory the board did not post above 380ish
376x9 was what I used (I find fsb divisable by 8 very stable)
Need 1.35v on the chip and extra .1v on the NB
was running geil ULL 4,4,4,12@752 (1:1 ratio)

It's also worth doing the bolt mod on the chipset cooling as the stock thermal pads are not great.

Edit: just noticed you have OCZ ram - never had any sucess with ocz in my Abit - wouldn't even post :(
 
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Thanks for all the reply's guys, I am going to leave it at 2.7 for the time being and wait untill I get a new board and a new cpu maybe a high clocking c2d E8 series...;)
 
garylouden said:
Yes of course but if you set it to auto you will see if your chip is capable of reaching a higher speed, once you find this out gradually lower the voltages until you find the minimum.

It was the only way i could bump my e6600 over 3.2ghz without spending hours doing testing.
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I would rather do the testing than have a component fail because the board gave it too much voltage. Even more so with 45nm cpu's. There are plenty of sources available to get base line settings from. All you need to do is tweal those.
 
I have now managed to get my cpu to 2.8 with stock volts and ram @ 1.90 and it has lowered temps so I may try a bit more tomoz and see what happens I have it x7 atm will try and go for 8x and see if thats any better, thanks for all your advice and help with this...:):)
 
I have just bought this from the MM.
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler, which has a 45 cfm and the one I have is just 35cfm, would I be able to fit a diff fan to the Artic cooler for more cfm like the Noctua, any help appreciated, thank you..
 
wnm0 said:
I have just bought this from the MM.
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler, which has a 45 cfm and the one I have is just 35cfm, would I be able to fit a diff fan to the Artic cooler for more cfm like the Noctua, any help appreciated, thank you..
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I had one of these and used some dental floss to attach a 120mm fan to it ;)
 
HarryPainful said:
If it will do 3.2 it would be sold as such...

Overclocking is never guaranteed regardless of what anyone says.

It could be that the PSU is not up to the extra load, or the current BIOS you are using, or the cooler on the CPU...
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99.99% of E6600 CPUs will do 3.2gig or beyond.
 
I will try for more when I can get more cooling on the cpu, I managed to get the over clock so far then turned down the core volts to default..so its 2.8 atm..
 
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