My E6600 Overclock

[samzetec-s]

Hi what you guys think of this clock? I know its not the best i expected more from a 29B E6600?

Managed to get it to 3.2GHz on stock voltage.

Struggled from there onwards but have now got 3.4GHz on 1.48V in Bios.

Can i expected much more? Load temps dont go over 60C so far.

FSB is about 377Mhz, rest of rig is in my sig.

 

[Justintime]

Sure it needs that much more vcore for 200Mhz? If so then its not a good 29B at all, i get 3.4 on BIOS 1.3v on the 2 L629B 6600s i've got. shooting for more Mhz might be a bit of a task and might not be worth the voltage needed for it. How're you loading it? I find TAT carries me wayy higher than anything else. What cooling are you using?

 

[samzetec-s]

Thermaltakes bigwater 745. Just failed prime95 testing on 3.4GHz. So ive put it back down to 3.2GHz on stock. Looks like i need to go over 1.5V to get past 3.4GHz lol

 

[samzetec-s]

Ram is on 2.1V recommended, do i need to up the FSB voltage or any other voltages aswell as the CPU voltage? New to this sorry

 

[w3bbo]

Keep all the voltages on auto apart from cpu and memory.

Are you running them ram 'unlinked' or linked and async?

 

[samzetec-s]

Keep all the voltages on auto apart from cpu and memory.

Are you running them ram 'unlinked' or linked and async?

Yes i have only so far altered only the CPU and memory voltage.
Ram is unlinked. What is async?

 

[ASH1982]

Thermaltakes bigwater 745. Just failed prime95 testing on 3.4GHz. So ive put it back down to 3.2GHz on stock. Looks like i need to go over 1.5V to get past 3.4GHz lol

I have the same problem with my E6600 and the same mobo as yourself
Running nicely at 3.3ghz but takes a huge jump in voltage to run 3.4ghz which pushes the temps right up
Its not worth it for the extra 100mhz when I can run it much cooler and lower voltage at 3.3ghz

This might help,
http://www.nvidia.com/docs/CP/45121/nforce_680i_sli_overclocking.pdf
How to overclock the 680i

Also FSB voltage never seemed to effect anything when I used it so ive left it at 1.2v

 

[samzetec-s]

Great thanks for that its interesting. Ive got mine on 3.3GHz now, seems to be where its happy without extra juice. Seems the Mobo is holding us back?

 

[truebluecfc]

Was pretty similar for me aswell, to get mine to 3GHz i needed 1.425v and to get to 3.2GHz needed 1.5. Mine was orthos stable for 8 hours though and never hanged or crashed and after about 2 weeks of it at 3.2GHz i tried lowering the Voltage and it worked, so im at 3.2GHz with only 1.375 Volts now.

 

[marscay]

tbh that sounds poor for a 29B, especially considering you're under water

then again, not ALL chips from a good stepping are equal either.

 

[Justintime]

Yep, not all good steppings are definetly good, just better odds For e.g My first 1Ghz AXIA T-Bird struggled for 1.2ghz at 1.85v while my next one did 1.6Ghz at 1.85v