OC'ing 6600 Conroe

Dyewitness · 17 Nov 2006 at 17:35

Hey all.

I was just wondering. I have a 6600 Conroe at 3.06GHZ with 340fsb. I have my divider at 4:5 425mhz. I have 2gb of Crucial ballistix 1000mhz memory at 5 5 5 12 timings. all at default volts. My cooling is a Ninja Plus. In my bios i noticed i can edit the Ratio CMOS Setting. Its now at 9. But it says i can put it to MAX 20. my mobo is a P5W DH Delux.

What is the best setting for the ratio? or is it ok at 9 ?

c

2bullish · 17 Nov 2006 at 18:58

crazeconnolly said:
Hey all.

I was just wondering. I have a 6600 Conroe at 3.06GHZ with 340fsb. I have my divider at 4:5 425mhz. I have 2gb of Crucial ballistix 1000mhz memory at 5 5 5 12 timings. all at default volts. My cooling is a Ninja Plus. In my bios i noticed i can edit the Ratio CMOS Setting. Its now at 9. But it says i can put it to MAX 20. my mobo is a P5W DH Delux.

What is the best setting for the ratio? or is it ok at 9 ?

c

You cannot change your multiplier. Increase your fsb in increments of 10 until it becomes unstable. Increse your volts a notch on your cpu until it becomes stable. You should be able to get a lot more out of that chip.

Dyewitness · 17 Nov 2006 at 19:53

it says here in bios that i can,

CMOS RATIO 9

Rab · 17 Nov 2006 at 19:56

crazeconnolly said:
it says here in bios that i can,

CMOS RATIO 9

thats there for cpu's that allow it, aint many around @ the moment, think it only the conroe 6800 that allows this, SOMETIMES's lowering the multi thou can give u a better oc & more stable

2bullish · 17 Nov 2006 at 19:58

2bullish said:
You cannot change your multiplier. Increase your fsb in increments of 10 until it becomes unstable. Increse your volts a notch on your cpu until it becomes stable. You should be able to get a lot more out of that chip.

What I should have said was you cannot change your multiplier upwards only downwards.

Rroff · 17 Nov 2006 at 20:04

With the latest BIOS for my board it shows multiple uh multipliers for my E6600 (not sure what the max is but think it goes over 16 in the list) however if I choose anything over 9, it still runs at 9... infact if I choose anything over 9 it disables C1E but still runs at 9 heh...

2bullish · 17 Nov 2006 at 21:13

Rroff said:
With the latest BIOS for my board it shows multiple uh multipliers for my E6600 (not sure what the max is but think it goes over 16 in the list) however if I choose anything over 9, it still runs at 9... infact if I choose anything over 9 it disables C1E but still runs at 9 heh...

The 6600 cannot be unlocked above 9

Dyewitness · 17 Nov 2006 at 21:53

ok thanx peeps anyway

c

Rroff · 18 Nov 2006 at 16:54

2bullish said:
The 6600 cannot be unlocked above 9

great reading comprehension skills...

I know and stated the E6600 can't be unlocked above 9 - but that some newer BIOS will _show_ multies above 9 even tho they aren't useable and only listed at the BIOS level...

2bullish · 18 Nov 2006 at 17:09

Rroff said:
great reading comprehension skills...

I know and stated the E6600 can't be unlocked above 9 - but that some newer BIOS will _show_ multies above 9 even tho they aren't useable and only listed at the BIOS level...

If that was the case why did you try to set the multiplier over 9?

Rroff · 18 Nov 2006 at 17:36

Because I wanted to see what would actually happen - if we don't experiment with things, even if we think we know the outcome, we will never learn anything new.