“I can’t get this puppy to take anything over 280.”
While there are too many variables to really help you out, I’d start with memory, particularly if you are letting the mb set the timings for you. I’ve seen motherboards guess wrong with the auto settings more times than I care to remember. If you do have the memory timings set to auto, then manually set them to whatever the manufacturer recommends. If you don’t know the recommendations, download CPU-Z (if you are overclocking this is a must have program anyway). It should show you the recommended memory timings under the SPD tab. If your motherboard allows you set timings other than those listed, just leave those particular timings on auto. Also, remember if your fsb speed is at 400Mhz, your memory is running at 800 (ddr2). Again, you probably want to set this manually to the manufacture spec (or below if u r having problems). The run memtest86 overnight. If you dont have errors, you are good to go.
To the person who is getting a 6x multiplier instead of 9x: Just go to control panel and set the power options to performance. The CPU will not drop down into power saving mode (6x) after that. It is however a good thing for the CPU to go to 6x when it is not being taxed so I wouldnt leave it that way
Overclocking is half science, half art, so perservance is most of the battle.
cpu core duo e6400
memory ddr2 2048 mb freq 427 5-5-5-12
cpu cooler gigabybte Galaxy II liquid cooling
Case Gigabyte 3D aurora 570
power supply 650 watt
I started off with the machine the same way i O/Ced my 965 ds3
With these settings Cpu max to 3 disable
Cpu enhance halt disable
cpu thermal monitor disable
cpu eist disable
then cntr f1
i started @ cpu host freq 320 for first test to see if it would boot
c.i.a 2 diasble system mem multiplier 2.00
high speed option 1
after being able to get this beast to 376 = 3.08GHZ
i decided to try taking it a bit further as u do when everything boots fine n will run performace benchmarking
atm my host freq is 427 giving a overclock off 3.4 GHZ
Rated Front side bus = 1708 mhz
Do u think this is the most i could get out off this system
with the setup i have
Btw system is running home premium
cpu temp is 28 deg at idle 35 at full load…
any comments pls
ONE BIG Question? ok enough over-clocking talk…how bout using two core 2 x6800’s? are there mobos that will take two x6800’s? any benifit…and prices KEEP DROPPING!!! a $999 x6800 last Oct is down $300! so should i wait a year put back the $4400 for my dream system at cost now and end up spending…$3200 for the same or better and smaller tech??? White Death~ Money drives these companies let bill gates have a couple of years (like 4) and buy that, then instead of EVERY DAY!UPGRADES! its a waste and we pay for it ;(
I have just built my pc and this was my first and it seems everything perfectly went well. I tried to OC my E6600 from 2.4 to 3.4 and it was stable.(35cc @ idle and 45cc @ full load). MB is about 45cc.The only problem i had was the onboard LAN isnt working after OC’ing over 3.0, so i pull it back to stock speed which is 2.4 and will just probably OC it sometimes when im not satisfy with the stock speed. Means right now i am satisfy with stock. I OC mine just for curiosity. CPU stock spd temp is 30cc @ idle and 37cc @ full load. MB is 35cc.
Here are the spec. of my rig
Intel Core Duo E6600
Asus P5L motherboard
2 GB OCZ 667 memory (2 x 1 GB) w/ HS
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro HSF
Rosewill 550 PSU
ATI Radeon X1950XT (not OC and will OC sometimes also when not
satisfy)
I use my old pc case, i painted it with black SP and modified it
with side panel window.
PC case has 2 92 mm fan (front and back)
Just looking into building a nas box out of a core 2 duo 4300 which I already have thought it would be nice to keep it cool, quiet and not too power hungry so does anyone know if there is any point underclocking this as it will remain idle most of the time or does power usage only really go up when its not idle. Thanks for any advice.
probably not related to an e6600 but i overclocked my e6300(1.86ghz) to 2.62ghz with 375 mhz FSB, motherboard is an ASUS Striker and ram is OCZ pc6400 2gb. This was done at a cpu voltage of 1.213v.
Increase voltage to the CPU, and memory in the BIOS.
To goose that extra bit of performance out of your system, increase
voltages in the BIOS across the board. Don’t worry, I’m not talking
about massive increases here-- just slight boosts. I’m using 1.425
volts for the CPU (up from 1.35v), and 2.1 volts (up from 1.8v) for
the memory. If what you want to do doesn’t work with these modest
voltage boosts, it probably won’t work at all.
You just don’t know what are you doing. This IS a massive increase.
You only need to increase voltage if your system runs unstable. In fact you may want to decrese voltage if your system runs stable on the desired freq.
If you’re looking for cooling and plenty of case space I can’t say anything bad about my new ThermalTake Kandalf LCS. It came with the full Kandalf Liquid Cooling System and it keeps me at a toasty 36C. I put an old setup into this case just to see how much I could really get out of it. I have an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ running an extremely stable 2.7 GHz sitting nicely in an ASUS A8N-SLI Premium board. Everything is liquid cooled to include the 8600 GT that is on board. I can’t complain AT ALL about this setup. I don’t even have a complaint about how HUGE the case is. It easily sucks up all 4 hard drives I have in it, as well as the DVD burner and the Blu-Ray burner. You can’t ask for a nicer case setup.
Even at stock speeds the machine felt much better than my x2 3800+. My next step is to get 2GB of ram to replace this 1GB. Even with 1GB less memory, my virtual machines run better than the on the AMD setup.
I am doing ALOT of re-encoding video to H.264 for my HTPC (I’ve ripped all 350 of my movies on to 2TB of storage and it’s nearly full). So far it’s averageing 2-2.5 hours per movie running x264 using HQ-Slow aiming for 90% quality. First pass is 60-70 frames per second, second pass is 25-30.
This was well worth the cost to upgrade, after selling my old setup I paid around $250 to upgrade.
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What’s the use of overclocking the CPU alone? Use MSI Afterburner to easily <a href="http://mytechencounters.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/gpu-overclocking-overclocking-your-graphic-card/"overclock your GPU too.
