overclocking my old e6750

[ck88]

Got it to 3.5ghz @1.35v, memory is at 1050mhz 5-4-4-15 completley rock solid, have been trying for ages to get 3.6 stable and it just won't have it at all.

no matter how much voltage i put through the chip and loosen timings on the ram it's still unstable, p95 errors after about 2 - 3 mins on the 2nd core everytime.

temps are 50 - 52 full load which are fine to me

It boots up until about 3.85ghz and anything more than that just results in a blank screen.

I went a bit drastic earlier and put the maximum voltage the board would allow (p5n-e sli)through the chip and NB, 1.6v + 1.674v , also dropped the ram down to 600mhz and auto'd the timings which are ridicliously loose.

Still isn't stable and fails p95 in a few minutes. Is this the board or chip that's limiting me, I personally feel that it's the board but what do i know .

Spotted the Foxconn BlackOps for £80, debating wether or not to take a shot with it, is it a bargain at £80 or forget about it?

not gonna bother changing the chip as goin for i5/i7 in a week or so. Just wanna see what i can get outta this badboy

 

[bifday2k]

IF u hav'nt tried upping the vcore for the 3.8ghz clocking that might help.

About the blackops mobo, at £80 its cheap as hell as when it first came out it used to cost double that and then some.

But if you do get it, remember it works with DDR3 and not DDR2.

 

[johnerz]

change the ram to 1:1 800 mhz to only over clock the cpu, up the vcore and nb 1 or 2 notches, excessive volts is as unstable as not enough volts

if it boots then its not to far from stable providing you psu is man enough

When its stable move to the memory and push that. Trying to clock two components at the same time is flawed.
Try dropping the multi and upping the mhz to see if its a cpu limit you have reached

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