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OK something is not right!
I set it to 8x385 upped the MCH to +.1 like you said and it wouldn't boot. ok no prob
I put it to 8x375 wroked fine booted up. Now this is where it gets weird I ran orthos along with coretemp and it read it as:
421.88x8.0 ran Orthos for 5 mins and got 21C There is no way it can be running at 3375Mhz lol so what do you think happened?
CoreTemp, Orthos, and My computer all say 3375Mhz. So...Help!
Edit: I also rebooted checked the bios it's at 375x8 and it still reads it as 421.88x8.0
I would bump the core voltage up to 1.400 volts to 1.425 volts and continue overclocking. The OEM cooler is fine here, just make sure you maintain some temperature head room to TjMax while running Orthos. You should be able to get a few more MHz out of it with more voltage.
With the extra CPU voltage you should be able to run it at 8 x 400 and set the memory multi to 2 so your memory is running at its default of DDR2-800. The Intel 965 chipset that your motherboard uses has great memory bandwidth performance at this setting.
Here's what I read on NewEgg about your memory:
"and it will not overclock worth sh@t"
I had some crappy memory like that once and it topped out at about DDR2-830 when using 2.15 volts. You'll likely lose stability if you try to go much past 400 MHz as reported by CPUz. You might be able to run it at CL4-4-4-12 with some extra voltage but save that step for last after you've maxed out your CPU overclock.
I dunno if you missed a few posts. But the multi is already on 2. But I will try and up the volts a little and see how much further I could go.
Well is it better to be on 8x or 9x? If I'm able to get 333 9.0 and 2.6mem divide is that better than 385 8x with 2.0mem divider?
Now with this succesful overclock what exactly will I notice faster on the computer?
Some of the stats at the FutureMark site don't represent the real world. There are a lot of cheaters out there and the comparisons to your system may not be fair comparisons.
Here's a good list of 3DMark06 scores:
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/486/13/
An 8600 GT is not a power house video card these days. What OS are you running. Vista is brutal for gaming.
It's a good time to start running some benchmarks so you can make some comparisons. If you've reached a stable CPU overclock that you're happy with then you can try CL4-4-4-12 memory timings. The real world performance increase will be slight and it's definitely not worth it if you lose stability.
Do some longer Orthos stability testing and you can do a few minor tweaks but it sounds like you are doing very well with what you've done so far. It's not really worth spending the next 6 months, like I do, to get that last 5% of performance out of a system!
Hmm I've never really seen the reason to buy a sound card is there really much a difference compared to the onboard hi def it already has? If for some reason it increases 1 - 5 fps no thanks .