Slow Ram?

[MetalHead]

Hi,

I have just purchased the Giga-Byte GA-P35C-DS3R with OcUK 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-8500C5 1066Mhz Dual Channel Kit.

I put in my Core 2 Duo E6600 onto the Motherboard.

Now I've NEVER overclocked anything so i'm a complete nub and can you go gentle with me.

At the moment i've got the CPU running @ 2400Mhz 9x266 the bios reports that the Ram is running at 400Mhz i have experimented loads even read through the forums for solutions but i'm lost, can someone please point out the correct bios settings i need for the cpu and ram to run @ 1066Mhz as that is what i'd like it to run at seeing how thats why i bought this ram for my cpu which runs with 1066Mhz.

As i said i tried all sorts of settings i could think of so ANY help will be greatly appreciated.

 

[BillytheImpaler]

There's no need to make the RAM run that fast as running a divider on C2 procs doesn't really yield much improvement. "1066" MHz RAM actually runs at 533 MHz. If you had your FSB clocked up to that speed you'd be looking at 4.797 GHz, a near impossibility without exotic cooling. Your RAM will be underclocked at any CPU speed less than that. That's why I recommend to most Q6600 overclockers that they save the extra money and get good PC2-6400, which is good up to 3.6 GHz.

Did all that make sense?

 

[Trusty]

Theres loads of articles in this forum, use the search function. Just do a bit of hard reading and your knowledge of overclocking C2D's will increase dramatically!

 

[thefishdude]

There's no need to make the RAM run that fast as running a divider on C2 procs doesn't really yield much improvement. "1066" MHz RAM actually runs at 533 MHz. If you had your FSB clocked up to that speed you'd be looking at 4.797 GHz, a near impossibility without exotic cooling. Your RAM will be underclocked at any CPU speed less than that. That's why I recommend to most Q6600 overclockers that they save the extra money and get good PC2-6400, which is good up to 3.6 GHz.

Did all that make sense?

well thats sort of true but looks like he has got his mem divider set at 2:3

any way your cpu is running at 1066 now, its quadpumped soo 266x4 =1066 (giveortake 1) this is the default speed of the cpu. it shoudl overclocl to 300fsb or 1200mhx very easily normally with just a fsb change and nothing more then at your current setting your ram wouyld be at 900mhz

 

[MetalHead]

Ok thanks for the info, i realised the ram speed is in fact 800Mhz it thinks it pc6400 whereas it's actually pc8500, considering it's actually running stable at stock (well it would wouldn't it lol) i'm going to leave it for now, i have read the sticky on overclocking and i'm gonna give this a go at the weekend when i got more time.

Again thanks for the feedback