Overclocking E6600 conroe

mysteryman · 28 Aug 2006 at 23:21

I'm overclocking my E6600 conroe on a DS4 board. This is my first attempt at ever overclocking. I'm following the guide in the sticky. I'm trying to find max FSB by increasing FSB by 5MHz each time and stress testing it using Prime. The multiplier is set at 9. Do i need to change the multiplier, when? And when do i need to reduce the RAM divider? If its not stable i will increase the chipset voltage a bit. Whats a safe voltage to go up to? All air cooled by the way. Thanks

Jokester · 28 Aug 2006 at 23:33

I'm not 100% sure on this as apparently you get some BIOSes for some MBs let you lower the multi on a Conroe, but generally they're locked at x9. As it is, you're overclocking both CPU and FSB at the same time so it's not particularly easy to tell which one is failing other than trial and error (increase the CPU voltage and if that doesn't work put it down again and increase the chipset voltage).

If you read some of the other threads you should be able to get an idea what FSBs need a increase in chipset voltage.

Change the RAM divider so that your RAM is at stock whilst overclocking the CPU.

Jokester

mysteryman · 28 Aug 2006 at 23:47

Do u mean by stock 1:1 ratio with cpu or RAM at normal DRAM frequency?

Jokester · 29 Aug 2006 at 07:37

RAM at its rated speed, or less.

Jokester