What have people taken their 6700's to on stock cooling?

[AnastieByte]

I ask as I am using MSI's DOT, or Dynamic Overclocking Technology, which overclocks your CPU automatically if you are utilising 100 percent of its capacity. On an MSI P6N SLI. I crashed out of CSS at 10% overclock. But so far at 5% it ran at 2.88 in game and stable. Just intrigued.

 

[AnastieByte]

What are you using to overclock? How are your temps?

I am using MSI's DOT, or Dynamic Overclocking Technology, which overclocks your CPU automatically if you are utilising 100 percent of its capacity...

As for temps 67 on load.

 

[AnastieByte]

don't faff about with software ocing tools... just go into the bios, up the fsb, and do it the proper way

Ok stopped using MSI overclocking tool and went into the bios and raised FSB -nothing else. At present I have it at 1200 and mem unchanged at 800. In CPU-Z it shows clock running at 3000.00. Which is the number I was looking for. This is reinforced in the MSI utility that reads clock frequency.

But...

In CPU-Z I see that the multiplier is fluctuating between x6 and x10. So this shows the frequency alternating between 1800 and 3000.

Why is this?

 

[AnastieByte]

Thanks for that.

Ran orthos for 20 mins temp on cpu went up to 75 C. Is that ok under stress testing?

 

[AnastieByte]

Cheers all. I will knock it back slightly. All stable though, no crashes or burnt electrics smell

 

[AnastieByte]

A bit of advice ditch the stock cooling if you want to overclock.

Look at either the Tuniq Tower or Atctic Cooling Freezer 7 if funds are a bit tight.

Cheers. Already decided to do that.