Overclocking with Stock Coolers

swhile

swhile

swhile

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I'm extremely new to overclocking so forgive how puny this potential overclock may appear. I currently have a 2.4Ghz E6600 Core 2 being cooled by an intel stock cooler. My current FSB is 266Mhz and my processor has multiplier of 9. l want to raise the FSB to 278Mhz so that my cpu clocks at 2.5Ghz (? hope this is right :rolleyes:). Is this asking for trouble whilst using a stock cooler?
 
nope, just keep an eye on the temps and set the voltage manually in the BIOS

you just won't get to clock as high as with a cooler running better aftermarket cooler
 
read other similar threads on these forums about your chip and gain a mental image/research also trial and error, if it won't post, it needs more!
 
Ok, after raising the FSB and keeping the voltages on Auto it lowered the CPU clock speed to 1.6GHz with a multiplier of 6 :confused:
 
swhile: It appears you have just discovered the EIST feature (Enhanced INTEL Speedstep) which throttles your CPU's speed down when it's not under load (it lowers the chips multi to x6), as soon as you put any load on the system the speeds will increase back to normal.

Download Core Temp and run it, you should see a STAT called VID (guessing it will say 1.35vCore). Manually set the voltage of your E6600 in the BIOS to the same value as the VID and start testing.

Using the Stock cooler is fine when doing smaller overclocks but once you start having to add more processor voltage (vCore) and really increasing the chips frequency you will find the stock cooler starts to struggle.

Using Core temp to keep an eye of things you should stop overclocking further once temps hit about 65c full load.
 
3ghz should be ok at stock volts, temps should be similar as no more voltage is being put through
 
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