BlastRadius said:
Anyone fancy getting me going? WJA...
Hi,
Try these settings for an E6400;
In the Advanced Menu go to;
CPU Configuration
Set CPU Internal Thermal Control to [AUTO]
Everything else except Execute Disable Bit should be set to [DISABLED]
Chipset
Leave all the memory timings on AUTO until you have got the CPU overclock sorted out
Spread Spectrum Control
Work your way through the menus and disable everything
SLI Broadcast Aperture
Leave this at Disabled
LDT Frequency
Leave this at 5x
Onboard Devices Configuration
Turn off the JMicron SATA controller
In USB Configuration
USB Legacy Support [DISABLED]
Then back up to JumperFree Configuration
AI Tuning
Set this to [Manual]
System Clocks - PCIe
Leave this at 100 for stability or upto 125 if you like your graphics as fast as possible
Voltage Control
Set the VCore voltage to 1.375
Set the VCore Offset Voltage to +100mV
Set the Memory Voltage to [2.259]
Set the NB Core Voltage to [1.563]
Reboot and re-enter the BIOS
Then go to the FSB and MEMORY CONFIG menu
FSB - Memory Clock Mode
Select [Linked]
FSB - Memory Ratio - Select [Sync Mode]
Start at 1200, then work upwards to 1400 in jumps of 25 FSB Reboot at each stage.
It seems to be important to work up - if you jump straight in the overclock quite often fails so be patient and work upwards.
Once you hit 1400 (350x8=2.8GHz) then boot all the way into windows and stress test the system for an hour. If it passes (and it should) then go back into the BIOS and work your way upto 1600 (400x8=3.2GHz)
When you reach 1600 do a system stability test with Orthos. At this point you may want to overclock further but you will also be overclocking the RAM.
The alternative is to say - OK, I've got 3.2GHz and try and fine-tune the RAM in which case go back into Chipset and try [5], [5], [5], [15] in the top 4 boxes. This should reboot fine.
The overclocking starts to get riskier here as when the RAM overclock fails it quite often needs a BIOS reset with my board. Save your BIOS settings (OC Profile in the Tools Menu) just in case.
For RAM fine tuning I like to work backwards so reduce the [15] to [14] and so on until the machine is unstable. Then try [4] on the next number back, then [3] and so on. I suspect that will end up with 4-4-4-12 so you could just try that from the outset, but where is the fun in that?
OK - that should get you going and I hope you have better luck than the last two peple who followed my previous recipe. I think that they jumped straight in and became discouraged. It took me 3 days to get my system stable at 3.6GHz (450x8) and there is plenty left once I can adequately cool the Northbridge.
Good luck!
