Overclocking E6600

Robert1986

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If you read my previous thread, you'll see the problems I've ran into. here

I've never overclocked or even changed the bios. So, I'm a complete beginner at this. I'd like to overlocked my cpu to the fastest speeds my pc can handle.

My pc came overclocked but then I had to get the motherboard replaced and I guess my cpu went back to stock speeds.

system specs:
Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 2.40GHz Dual Core CPU Overclocked too a minimum of 2.93GHz and beyond. (9 x 333MHz - 1333MHz FSB)
- Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Intel approved cooler
- Arctic Silver 5 Heatsink compound professionally hand installed by our technicians
- asus P5N32-E SLI PLUS motherboard
- Award winning G.Skill PK 2GB Ultra PC2-6400 CAS4 (2x1GB) Dual Channel Kit (Overclocked at 900MHz+)
- 500GB Western Digital Enterprise 16MB Cache SATA-2 Hard Drive
- NVIDIA 8800 GTS 640MB GDDR3 VIVO HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) DirectX 10 Graphics Card
- NEC 7173 18x DVD±RW Dual Layer LabelFlash ReWriter (Black)
- Black Sony Floppy Drive
- Antec NINE HUNDRED Gamers ATX Case
- BFG 800W Next Generation Power Supply

Any help overclocking this would be very much appreciated.
 
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Could a mod move this to the overclocking forum? Thanks.

some settings.

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Thanks. I read those threads and I think I overclocked everything correctly. Shouldn't my DRAM be higher than 333.3 though?

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You have DDR2 6400 so it should say 400mhz in CPU-Z. You're running 1:1 though which isnt bad. at 400mhz and 333fsb you could have a 5:6 ratio if I remember correctly.
 
keep riseing the fsb

my E6600 gets too 3.24 (360*9) at 1.35v.

you could also try droping the multi to 8x and (400*8) will give you 3.2 but the extra fsb will give a greater preformance boost that the above
9x clock.

Personally I alway keep the ram divider at 1:1 if your ram will clock to 900 you may acheive the 3.6 sweet spot (with .1v extra volts and maybe a little extra on the chipset too)

Edit: but I thing the sli boards don't acheive such high fsb as the intel and/or Xfire boards with this chip
 
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totally got nothing to do with your topic sorry but heres just a screenshot of me overclocking my e6600, might help in some way maybe? by scanning it and the data on it.

voltage in bios is 1.675v but it drops a hell of a lot because of my duff motherboard lol, but it runs stable and has done for the past 3 months so should be stable to run for a while yet. had the cpu at over 3.6ghz now for 20 months at over 1.55v.

 
Robert1986 said:
Don't think it would be safe for me to set the FSB to 4250.

What would I set the FSB to for 3.2mhz?
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for 3.2ghz you would need 355 fsb, and voltage wise you would need to raise the vcore voltage a tad for stability unless you have a really good clocking chip, mine only does 3.1ghz without voltage raises
 
IceShock said:
for 3.2ghz you would need 355 fsb, and voltage wise you would need to raise the vcore voltage a tad for stability unless you have a really good clocking chip, mine only does 3.1ghz without voltage raises
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So I just change the FSB QDR from 1333 to 1335?

What clock speed do you think would be best?

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It depends what you want to do with it, as to what clock speed would be best for you.

For general use, 3Ghz would be enough. For gaming, 3.2-3.4 would be best. Anything higher is for epeen benchmarks or an extra 2fps in Crysis (my reason :D)
 
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