Overclocking e6700 and Memory

MFrost

MFrost

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Hello.

I've been attempting to overclock my system. I've never overclocked before but i changed quite a few settings in my bios and saved it and it seemed to start up okay.

The system is:

e6700
OCZ 4gb dual channel vista ram
Gigabyte DS3 Motherboard

i set the multiplier to 10x and the FSB to 310. I set the memory timings to what is supposed to be stock for my ram: 5-6-6-15. I increased the CPU voltage to 1.45. The BIOS showed my RAM as 930/920 (cant quite remember)

The strange thing is, when i run CPU-Z it gives me some strange results:

My CPU Core Speed only goes to 3100MHz when i do some stress testing. Then down to 1860MHz when i'm not.

And my RAM never changes from 465MHz, when i know this is supposed to run at 800MHz.

Any help would be greatfully appreciated!

Thanks a bunch!

Frosty
 
Make sure anything that throttles the CPU is turned off. Might be called speedstep but different boards have their own ideas.
 
Hmm, thought you two had cracked it with that one....i turned EIST and C.I.A.2 off but still, in CPU-Z im getting the basic 1860MHz clock until i do something.

Also is my memory set up correctly?

Frequency 465.0MHz
FSB:DRAM 2:3
CAS# Latency 5.0 clocks
RAS# to CAS# Delay 6 clocks
RAS# Precharge 6 clocks
Cycle Time (Tras) 15 clocks

Command Rate 2T
 
Hmm i'm not sure then. When I had a similar issue it was something to do with version 1.38 but they fixed that in 1.39.
 
Thanks for your help!

Interesting....oh well i guess i can live with the CPU speed changing thing.

Another little question. Is raising the VCore voltage from 1.3 to 1.45 supposed to increase the temps by about 15-20 degrees i ended up hitting 67'c at one point after running sp2004 for about 2mins (3.2ghz clock)?

And how is my ram? Posted the CPU-Z readout in a previous post.
 
Raising the voltage that much will cause temps to go quite high, couple that with the actual overclock and yes you can reach upwards of 60C.

My E6600 is at 3.3GHz and doesn't go above 60C at all. But my voltage is only at around 1.4v and I suspect my HSF is better :p
 
My computer wont get into windows if i put my voltage at 1.4 i get a disk error. But 1.45 works and gets in.

I'm using a tuniq tower, but the fan is on minimum at the moment - Temps are mid to low 60's at the moment after SP2004 for 10mins on 1 core each.

I'm still havn't really got the faintest clue what sort of memory speeds I should be getting, or COULD be getting. Can anyone advise me on this?

Thanks
 
I can advise you a bit about the memory :)

cpu-z reports the memory speed as non ddr - so your 465 is actually doubled to 930 (as your bios reported), not a bad overclock from 800 but probably not at its limit either.

If your temps are getting high the next thing to tweak is your memory timings, as the current ones sound... slow ;) . Manufacturers program memory to run at a speed it will run at with the standard 1.85v, but it is usually meant to run faster with more volts. Post what RAM you have and I'm sure someone will give you some idea what you can hope for :)


Hope that helps,

Suicidal_Orange
 
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