Turns out your experience so far proves to be true. I was increasing voltage too much elsewhere and not giving core enough. I immediately got 3.2 stable with a little more juice to the cpu. I'll try the 3.6 GHz as soon as I'm sure this works. Thanks for your help man. I learned you were...
Hey, here's what's going on so far. I did not understand much about memory until I read the memory section. OK, so if you can verify this. The original CPUZ image I have above shows a 2:3 ratio FSB:DDR, and it was running over 400 MHz - taking into account DDR that means its an effective 800+...
Dark007
I just build a new PC last week. This is not my first built, but first time I am trying to overclock.
Specs:
E6600 @ 2.4 GHz
abit AB9 Pro MoBo
Patriot DDR2 800 (PC6400) 4-4-4-12 2.2 V
Here is what I have going so far:
For a normal system boot, I only had to up the DDR2 voltage...