Q6600 overclocking

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Does anyone know if its possible to increase ghz through windows with this chip its a 2.4ghz 95w energy efficient one. if you cant do it through windows how do i do it on bios pnb i dont have the option to increase volts on bios.

have i hit a brick wall here
 
Im using an asrock mobo if you look on the overclockers website its the only one they have for Intel. i may have made the mistake at the begining i built a cheap budget get of the ground machine and as time has gone ive wanted to upgrade but sem to think this is the brick wall of going anyfurther i cant afford a new mobo just now but if thats the issue il def get a new one when i can.
gfx: geforce 7300le
ram: budget corsair but intenting on some crucial
 
Thats the beast of burdon. do you chaps have any idea on how to start changing it and whats best to do the link above was of good help but at work just now so will give it a bash later any other ideas would be great.
 
Check out the ASRock websites and forums for help with your specific board , i wouldnt do it through windows using the bios is better imo , also read your motherboard manual it will tell you where the fsb and voltage settings can be adjusted ;)
 
last time i read what to do on an asrock related forum the impending doom of not booting up was upon me and i literaly keekt ma pants. but will try most of the things you guys have sugested and let you know the outcome ie if overclockers receive an order for new parts lol
 
This is cut and pasted cause it's from another etailers forum so I can't link directly:

have 2 Asrock boards, the original dual/Vsta and the 4core/Vsta. You will be able to effect a mild overclock but nothing very astounding. Your e6300 is going to be a limiting factor with it's multiplier being only 7. I have the same ram as you OP. You dont mention your gfx card so I'll tell you about both agp and pci-e. These are my settings.
I'm using the stock hsf and 8hrs orthos blend on the hottest day of the year never over 60c

On the cpu bios page
cpu pci-e = async
cpu freq = mine is 8hrs orthos stable @ 294, start a little lower (ie 285) and up it if you find it's stable
pci-e freq = if your card is pci-e dont go higher than 109mhz esp if you've sata h/d's as you can get data loss (sata uses the pci-e bus)
If you have agp gfx then 117mhz was recommended to me and worked well but that was with ide h/d's, same advice about data loss if you've sata drives.
pci = 33.3
spread spectrum = auto
boot faliure = enabled
my multiplier is 9 (e6600) OP's will be 7 (e6300)
max cpuid = disabled
intel virt = enabled
cpu thermal = enabled
non execute = disabled
speedstep = auto

on the chipset page
dram freq = auto
flexibility = disabled
everything else = auto except command rate which is currently 2T (not tried 1T yet)
dram voltage = low (which is 1.8 volts, the voltage of your kingston ddr2 pc667 ram)

Google for a prog called hwinfo32 which reports the correct mem and voltage settings on this board, it's shareware but works without limitations after you click through the nag screen. My report shows that my cpu is at 2646.7mhz and memory is at 294.1 and 4-4-4-12 timings.
Check stability with a prog called orthos by Johnny Lee (it's prime 95 for 2 cores)
Run orthos for about 10mins at a time whilst upping the fbs a few mhz in the bios each time until you start to get errors, then back off to your previous stable fsb and see how long it goes without error. If you can get to 8hrs then your set to go.

I found that agp gfx and ddr1 ram allowed me to run stable at 300mhz but after upgrading to pci-e and ddr2 I've had to lower my fsb to 294.
Assuming you can get to 290fsb then your e6300 will be at 2030mhz, your limiting factor being the 7x multi of the chips 266bus.
The e4400 would be the best clocker for money on this board with it's 200mhz fbb and 10x multi. At 290mhz that would be at 2.9ghz.
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cheers greebo. gota dash just now at work and playinng on the tinternets not classed as hard work many thanks guys will return with my answers to it soon.
 
No problems. It does look like you might bomb out at under 300Mhz with your mobo but 9 x 300 = 2.7Ghz is better than stock. Good luck
 
hey chaps it didnt go so well i set up my bios the same way as the Quote posted by Greebo sugested it uped my ghz to 2.55 from 2.40 but failed to boot i ran throught it all again and it kept freezin on the second screen where it configures if hard drives and everything are comunicting and also gives
the option to F2 boot into bios or F10/11 (cant qite remember *** one) to chose load from options ie safe mode and stuff. after tweaking the frequency to the chip bringing it down from what was recomended it would advance past that but then the screen was blank with a little white line top right flashing and stayed like that i tried everything and nothing worked. even having the processor set to 2.45ghz messed it up

forgot to mention erlier that there is no option for speedstep on my bios

also memorys cheap corsair 2x1gb ddr2 533
as shown here http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...200C5 Dual Channel Kit (2x1GB) (VS2GBKIT533D2)
 
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