Whats your E6600 oc?

randal24 said:
Well I'm on 362 at the moment, has taken a pretty big volts jump to get here though. Don't remember it being this tricky last time around.

3.0ghz - 1.26v
3.26ghz - 1.35v

edit - just re-read above, 1.45v for 3.4 seems to say i'm on the right track... /gets coat.

Still on manual settings around 37 degrees idle. Going back for more :D
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Carefull with your ram, as iv said befor, anything over 360fsb on manual timings on this ram may cause the overclock to fail resulting in the system not booting.
 
Mine does:

3.2gig at stock vcore
3.4gig at 1.38v
3.5gig at 1.456v
3.77gig at 1.535v

All these are 100% long term Orthos stable.

All fully orthos stable, unfortunatly the current BIOS and vdroop with the board I'm using means that I can't go above 1.6v in the BIOS (1.55 after droop) so I can't get above 3.8gig.
 
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IceShock said:
Carefull with your ram, as iv said befor, anything over 360fsb on manual timings on this ram may cause the overclock to fail resulting in the system not booting.
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Just realised I'm unlinked, so FSB probably isn't going to make that much of a difference is it?? /dribbles

I've been weighing up the pros and cons of linking/unlinking, what's the general consensus? Once I've got my stable CPU top end, I'll think about the best way to go I guess.

3375mhz @ 1.3250v as we speak, aaaand going back for more.
 
IMO you have a bad setup for overclocking an E6600... those P5N series have a hideously unstable North Bridge - feed em enough volts to be stable and they get too hot and crash... and the RAM is far from ideal as well...

I had a problem getting much over 350-360*9 on the one in my sig (since changed for a gigabyte P35 board)
 
Hmmm, see the point you're making there Rroff. Have just tried to get it stable enough to run SP2K4 for more than 5 minutes @ 3375 and temps are climbing due to the volts going across NB and CPU and nothing is settling down. Hey ho. Couldn't agree more about the NB and temps, it was only after committing to purchase that I read just how hot they get. The passive pipe effort they've installed on there just doesn't cut it, it's just about managing with a spot fan and good airflow.

Reckon it'd stabilise around 3.2ghz, but tbh I'm not that fussed having run everything at 3.0ghz and being more than happy with that.

What I am thinking about though is when Penryn hits the shelves, 1600FSB linked in sync should be rather nice. If from a obsessive compulsive standpoint with regards to nice rounded and divisible numbers if nothing else :D
 
IceShock said:
interesting, mines at 1.485v @ 3.5ghz, i bet if i went for 3.6ghz id have to take it up to 1.5v too, our cpu's must be exactly the same :)

you must have good cooling, is that on water?
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yes, got a swiftech apogee block on it. Wierd thing is most of the time it was 'orthos'ing the temps were up to 60ishdegC on each core (see below) but as soon as it passed 12hrs the core temps dropped to 52!?:confused: should have used Coretemp instead of SpeedFan I guess.
 
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3.5Ghz (9x389=3501) 5-5-5-15 RAM.

28-32 degrees Idle
58-62 degrees Full load (Orthos blend)

Very happy and fully orthos stable. :)


EDIT- Using 1.5v by the way. I've actually not tried going higher than 3.5 as I'm happy where I am for now, I'm confident I could get the chip up to 3.7Ghz on air under 70 degrees load.
 
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I'm on 3.4 (378 x 9) at 1.4v. On a hot day (no more of those to be had this year!) that gives me a peak of 58c on both cores at full tilt. To go faster I'd really have to pump up the juice and I figure it's just not worth it.

It appears I've got the exact same Geil RAM as you IceShock if cpuz is to be believed. I'm running at 4,4,4,12 which is what it's supposed to do, though faster than the SPD suggests. I went manual for those settings but left the others on auto. This is on the Abit IP35 Pro, I don't know if your board allows a mixture of manual and auto settings for memory?

Also note that I'm running my two sticks at 2.1v, which is sort of in the middle of the recommended 1.9 - 2.3v range. My board wanted to give them a default of 1.8, which caused lockups with the cpu at stock. Even at 1.9 they weren't 100% happy. I reckon they'd be OK at 2.0 but I had them at 2.1 while testing my o/c and haven't lowered them since.
 
PARUK said:
It appears I've got the exact same Geil RAM as you IceShock
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Yep, the problem with this memory (all ones around week 35 year 06 and earlyer) is that because they programmed the SPD wrong (400mhz @ 5-5-5-18 instead of 4-4-4-12) is that if you have a FSB of more than 360mhz on manual timings it wont boot. iv tryed 2.3v memory, and it doesnt even show life. this doesnt mean they wont do 400mhz @ 4-4-4-12 tho, iv ran 4:5 divider @ 333fsb = 416mhz ram @ 4-4-4-12 which was fine, alltho cpu was at 3ghz back then.

im at 389fsb (3.5ghz) with my ram @ 1:1 divider, 389mhz 5-6-6-18 which is really slack due to having it on auto timings other wise it wont boot.

im going to try edit my SPD some how when i figure it out :)

theres a whole thread on these ram sticks here: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17659100&highlight=giel
 
3.6GHz orthos stable 16 hrs here, 1.575v under water, got phase on the way so hope to be hitting 4GHz. ive still got NB and SB at stock setting and my GeIL is running at stock 800MHz 4-4-4-12 altho ive had it to 1066MHz 2.3v 5-5-5-18
 
3.6ghz 1.39v :D orthos stable

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59 degrees top wack :) ,
 
Can't remember exact figures now but on my P5N32 SLI it did;

3.2 - stock volts
3.4 - 1.35v
3.5 - 1.39v
3.6 - 1.47v
all stable (aprx 9 hrs orthos), ram was at 1066, 2.1v for all of those
it's record is 3.75 on 1.53v, lasted about a minute in orthos. I settled on 3.6 in the end as not so crazy voltage and a good stable clock.

Only just got my new Maximus board so haven't really got going on that yet but already got it at 3.4 on 1.33v so far (everything else auto cept the ram), just to get it warmed up for a better go later :p
 
Hello again, iv just added a 2nd fan to my ninja and its dropped load temps by a astonishing 8-9c :eek: at 1.485v @ 3.5ghz, yesterday full load i was getting 74c, and now im loading at 65-66c :D
and idle im getting 30c where as i was getting 30c @ stock volts, now im getting it at 1.485v where as befor i was getting idle of 35-36c @ 1.485v.

heres where i placed the fan: (pictures taken on my k800i phone)






the fan isnt attached on by anything, its just sat on top, and its blowing air down, which i know isnt the best idea but its working :)
 
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