Just tried overclocking 1st time, help!

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I went into bios turned off the speed spectrum things, not sure if anything else needs to be off(was using the nvidia guide).

Anyway I set sli rdy to disable and mem clock to unlinked, the I increases fsb to 1120 or 1130, nothing major, I saved settings and started to run Orthos and it failed within 1st few secs :o? If I was to try again but increased the voltage abit would it actually work? :confused:

Im very new to overclocking and very unsure of what to do. Any tips/advice welcome, thanks.
 
I;ve not done any overclocking before but i'm planning to when i get my hands on the e6300/e6600 in a few weeks time so i've been reading up a little. i'm pretty sure you have got your fsb be wrong. for your cpu, the stock fsb for your chip is 266Hz with a multiplier factor of 9 hence 266 x 9 = 2.4Ghz (stock). You can start upping the fsb but no way up to over 1000Hz!
 
serenity888 said:
I;ve not done any overclocking before but i'm planning to when i get my hands on the e6300/e6600 in a few weeks time so i've been reading up a little. i'm pretty sure you have got your fsb be wrong. for your cpu, the stock fsb for your chip is 266Hz with a multiplier factor of 9 hence 266 x 9 = 2.4Ghz (stock). You can start upping the fsb but no way up to over 1000Hz!
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No, he's bang on. The NVidia BIOS shows the quad speed of the CPU and RAM FSB so 266FSB = 1066 on screen.
 
So voltages, its curruntly on 1.3375 which sounds low to me but im no expert oc'er, shall I try raise this to say 1.4? and try overclcoking the fsb again?

And any other settings in bios holding me back etc?

What does the speed spectrm actually do?
 
martin9887 said:
So voltages, its curruntly on 1.3375 which sounds low to me but im no expert oc'er, shall I try raise this to say 1.4? and try overclcoking the fsb again?

And any other settings in bios holding me back etc?

What does the speed spectrm actually do?
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Dude - just stop. Reset the CMOS and start again. You don't need to raise the voltage with that CPU until you're well over 1400FSB. If you start shoving big voltages through it you'll just increase the temperatures and that won't help anything.

How long has the machine been running? If it's less than 2 or 3 days then let it settle down - the thermal paste needs to bed in. Then you need to read the overclocking stickies. Then the only things you need to adjust (in the beginning) are the CPU and Memory FSB.
 
WJA96 said:
Dude - just stop. Reset the CMOS and start again. You don't need to raise the voltage with that CPU until you're well over 1400FSB. If you start shoving big voltages through it you'll just increase the temperatures and that won't help anything.

How long has the machine been running? If it's less than 2 or 3 days then let it settle down - the thermal paste needs to bed in. Then you need to read the overclocking stickies. Then the only things you need to adjust (in the beginning) are the CPU and Memory FSB.
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I have reset it it many times, and pc been running about 2 weeks, I have read the stickies and many other guides.

I do as it says and it just fails when in orthos after 5-10 seconds, Im asking if im doing anything wrong? I set sli rdy to disable and memclock to unlinked, I raise fsb to get about 2.50 - 2.60 and orthos fails. I do only have stock cooler atm, I know silly when overclocking but I have read they can get 2.60-2.80 easily on stock cooler, I will be getting a water cooling setup nearer christmas.
 
The stock cooler shouldn't make a whole lot of difference under 3GHz.

Shall we begin?

1. In the BIOS - load the defaults and restart the machine and then go back into the BIOS.

We are now looking at the same screen as I've just got a new EVGA myself.

2. Just check that the temperatures look OK - in System Monitor - My temps are 28, 40, 41 which I think is OK as I have it on a Reserator in a cold room.

3. We need to turn off anything that isn't necessary for the machine to run flat out - so that's all the power saving stuff.

Go into Advanced Chipset Features then CPU configuration and disable everything except

CPU Thermal Control
CPU Core 0
CPU Core 1

Now come back to Advanced Chipset Features

4. Select System Clocks

Set all the PCIe clocks to 100. Disable all the Spread Spectrum options down at the bottom. Spread Spectrum is there to allow the user to fine tune out electromagnetic interference and I've never needed to use it.

5. Right - we've now locked down most options, we can start on the speed stuff.

Go into FSB & Memory Config

In the FSB-Memory Clock mode select 'Unlinked'

Check what your current FSB and RAM settings are. They should be something like 1067 and 1600. If the system hasn't picked up your RAM SPD timings correctly then it could be reading lower than 1600 - anything between 800 and 1600.

So, now go to the FSB slot and dial it up to 1200.

Press F10 to save the BIOS settings and reboot the machine. If it boots back up, then let it go ahead and try to load windows, if not then get it back into the BIOS. If it fails to start up, then reset the CMOS and get it back into windows on the defaults again.

I'm just about to reboot my own system so here's hoping!

6. I'm now running at 2.7GHz in the BIOS. I haven't yet got the stage of putting hard disks on it, but the theory is that you just keep nudging the FSB up until the machine won't boot any longer. Then you give it a bit more volts and try again.

Try this and post back to let us know how you got on.
 
Ok did all that, except there was several options for cpu thermal control so left it at disabled which was default.

I set fsb to 1200 and also turned off smartfan, was that good or bad? I have cpu fan set to 100%.

In windows atm and sems to be working, orthos been running for 7mins and cpu temp is 48-49-50 it keep's jumping around these, hopefully I have done it right :confused:.
 
martin9887 said:
Ok did all that, except there was several options for cpu thermal control so left it at disabled which was default.
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Ok. Use the TM1 & TM2 option - this is the throttling mechanism that protects the chip against overheating. With the stock Intel HSF you need to have this turned on.

martin9887 said:
I set fsb to 1200 and also turned off smartfan, was that good or bad? I have cpu fan set to 100%.
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If smartfan is off, the CPU fan will run 100% all the time. I suspect we want that!

martin9887 said:
In windows atm and sems to be working, orthos been running for 7mins and cpu temp is 48-49-50 it keep's jumping around these, hopefully I have done it right :confused:.
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Yes, I now have windows running on mine too. If you are Orthos stable for more than 10 minutes, you're fine at the moment.

When you feel comfortable, take it back to the BIOS and take it up to 333MHz which will give you 3GHz. I think that is about as far as the stock HSF will take you sensibly as I had one before and it was hitting 75C on Orthos and it start to throttle back to protect itself.

I don't think you'll need any nmore voltage at the moment, but when you do hit a point where either Orthos isn't stable or Windows won't boot then give it one extra increment of voltage until it will. If you have used 10 extra increments of voltage and it still won't do what you want then take it back down again as you have definitely reached the limit.

Let me know how you get on please!
 
CarlD said:
Can someone tell me why i can only get stable @ 1.5v - 3.6ghz :@
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Nope - but try asking in a new thread. Easyrider has his running at 3.8GHz under water cooling and I'm burning mine in at the moment with 3.33GHz at stock volts. I think you have to be quite picky about which combination of CPU and Memory clocks you let it use. One of the earlier threads talked about avoiding certain multipliers around 1:1 and I think that's quite valid.
 
Not all E6600s are made equal... my first one (which was possibly dodgy) wouldn't go over 2.6 on stock volts, but it died after 2 weeks of running overclocked so all things considered it was probably a dud... my current one, and commonly for the E6600 reach about 3.15 on stock volts, after that it depends on the quality of your CPU...

I wouldn't overclock more than about 10% on the stock cooler tho - I had mine at 3gig on the stock cooler and at times it could hit upto 70, with the AC Freezer 7 pro I don't see temps above 50.
 
Rroff said:
Not all E6600s are made equal... my first one (which was possibly dodgy) wouldn't go over 2.6 on stock volts, but it died after 2 weeks of running overclocked so all things considered it was probably a dud... my current one, and commonly for the E6600 reach about 3.15 on stock volts, after that it depends on the quality of your CPU...
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Indeed - but I think the OP had made some interesting alterations to the BIOS which is what was holding him back originally. Now, hopefully, he's off the leash and overclocking like a good 'un.

Rroff said:
I wouldn't overclock more than about 10% on the stock cooler tho - I had mine at 3gig on the stock cooler and at times it could hit upto 70, with the AC Freezer 7 pro I don't see temps above 50.
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Yes, I had one clocked to just shy of 3GHz and it would throttle with *** stock cooler. I'm a bit concerned that the BIOS defaults to turning off the Thermal Protection because without that you could do some damage to the processor.
 
Havent done any more oc yet as I went out but kept orthos running, with my brother checking every it 5-10mins, it ran for 2hours 2mins with no alarms so guess its stable at 1200fsb. Il do a little more but won't go to far on stock cooling, will try more when I get some watercooling again.

Thanks for heads up about the thermal control, without you telling me I would have left it off, which more than likely I would have ended up with a dead cpu lol.

EDIT: The maximum temp my brother saw of the cpu was 51, from nvidia moniter, it was also at 51 just before I stopped Orthos.
 
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