P5N-E overvolting?

waso_dude · 14 Jun 2007 at 18:09

I've set my mobo in the Bios to 1.325 for my e6600, and Asus probe, Everest and Speedfan are displaying it being at 1.39.

Now this is worrieing me. As i'll prob end up over volting my CPU.....

Anyone got any ideas?

I'm running 6004 bios BTW iirc.

waso_dude · 14 Jun 2007 at 18:26

Sorted it now....

+100mv......

God dam it! got me worried!

BUFF · 14 Jun 2007 at 19:12

if you overclock you'll need that back under load, horrible droop ...

waso_dude · 14 Jun 2007 at 19:51

doens't matter, it won't clock for me anyhow....

***** thing IMHO.

WJA96 · 16 Jun 2007 at 14:52

waso_dude said:
doens't matter, it won't clock for me anyhow....

***** thing IMHO.

There are enough people who've got big overclocks with the P5N-E SLi for me to be able to say that statement is not correct. Either your CPU isn't a good clocker, you have inadequate northbridge cooling or you've missed a vital setting. Those motherboards are right up there with the DS3 and the P5B for big overclocks so it's not the motherboard.

pegasus1 · 17 Jun 2007 at 08:56

waso_dude said:
doens't matter, it won't clock for me anyhow....

***** thing IMHO.

Well its got my 6300 to 3.5ghz with a little tinkering.

waso_dude · 17 Jun 2007 at 11:33

i was refering to mine.

Not others, what overclocks other people were getting is what made me buy one.

pegasus1 · 17 Jun 2007 at 13:08

waso_dude said:
i was refering to mine.

Not others, what overclocks other people were getting is what made me buy one.

Well unlike CPU's i dont think you generally get good or bad Mobo's, its not like they are speed binned.
They things that made a big difference for me were active cooling of the NB, lapping the CPU (earlyish 6300 so mega concave IHS), avoiding the FSB holes and applying Walters bios recipe.

WJA96 · 17 Jun 2007 at 13:09

waso_dude said:
i was refering to mine.

Not others, what overclocks other people were getting is what made me buy one.

If you think yours is broken/not as good as everyone elses, then maybe you should consider RMA'ing it?

stickroad · 17 Jun 2007 at 13:13

WJA96 said:
If you think yours is broken/not as good as everyone elses, then maybe you should consider RMA'ing it?

If it works fine at stock you wont be able RMA it.

Its unlikely the board that is preventing your overclock, most likely the CPU mate.

waso_dude · 17 Jun 2007 at 13:29

I got the CPU off gt_junkie.

Well i've just tested something.

My memory will now run at 950mhz @ 5-4-4-12 stable.

So it def isn't the board.

Looks like its the CPU.

Its just dieing as it enters windoes now. Just not working after that.

Anyone got a link to walters recipe?

Hedge · 17 Jun 2007 at 13:29

Im totally clueless about my board, all i know is that i put my fsb up, and it sits happily at 3.0ghz

WJA96 · 17 Jun 2007 at 13:50

stickroad said:
If it works fine at stock you wont be able RMA it.

That just displays a lack of imagination.

stickroad · 17 Jun 2007 at 13:52

WJA96 said:
That just displays a lack of imagination.

I didnt say you wont be able to get around it now did i.

WJA96 · 17 Jun 2007 at 14:09

I think (and I've tried ALL the 650i boards now) that the P5N-E SLi is still the best of them although the DS4 is better laid out (you can still use the SATA ports with two graphics cards in there).

Cooling the Northbridge is the key to getting good overclocks on these boards I reckon. All my best overclocks have been with water-cooled Northbridges.

waso_dude · 17 Jun 2007 at 14:17

come the 29th i'll be ordering the rest of my watercooling kit - just need a resi and some fluid. A new CPU by the looks of it, - prob a quad.

I really can't believe that my CPU has gone.