ds3 oc' help

Look at my sig.. it states my rig, BUT I cannot oc my proc to above 3.019GHz. I've got a zalman HSF on it, and it idles in the low 40's. but it won't go over 3.1 for the life of anything..

Could one of you guy's with a ds3 help me out?

Welcome to the club. Some chips can only do about 3Ghz.
You can try pumping 1.5v++ volts in to it, to what you get, but its probably just the limit of your chip. Not all chips do 3.2-3.6Ghz like people rant & rave are guaranteed. I'd say 3.2Ghz is the average, but its varies + or - 300Mhz so 2.9-3.5Ghz is the range. You just happen to be in the bottom of the range


I can't get mine over 3Ghz reliably either. Tried everything. More voltage, all kinds of things. Its not the FSB/ motherboard or ram b/c I can run 9x334, 8x375 or 7x430 easily. (all = 3Ghz)

at 3Ghz it needs 1.375v to be stable
after that its almost stable at 3.1Ghz at 1.45v
It just needs way too much voltage to get over 3Ghz.
So I've settled for 3Ghz.

Hopefully (crossing fingers) with the F8 bios coming out, we can OC with a little less voltage

Merf... alright.. I'm concidering getting a new mobo hopefully in january.. if I can afford it..

Oh well, I'm *content* with 3.1GHz give or take a bit... but yeah, when I get my ram in, I'm in the process of RMA'ng it now, so hopefully I'll be able to get 3.2

I doubt it the motherboard.

Its probably the chip!!

FWIW, I seemed to get a little better OC on my E6600 out of a 975X P5W DH board than I did on my 965 Gigabyte DS3 I used to have. I would run 3.0-3.2Ghz at 1.375V on a DS3 and I can run 3.2-3.4 on the P5W DH. Not sure if it's just the board or maybe I got better contact with my HSF when I swapped out the boards.

What multi are you running your e6600 at? The DS3 has known issues about not being able to go over 450MHz fsb... The bios (F8) is supposed to fix it up to about 486Mhz.

dtos01 said:

What multi are you running your e6600 at? The DS3 has known issues about not being able to go over 450MHz fsb... The bios (F8) is supposed to fix it up to about 486Mhz.

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my DS3 will hit 473Mhz @ 6x multiplier with the F7 bios. After that its locks at 474. I can boot at 473 and its stable, so its kind of weird how it dies instantly at 474. And the ram will run at 1Ghz at 333FSB with 3x mutliplier, so I don't think its the ram dying at 948, unless the 1:1 is a lot more stressful.

Or like I said I can also run at
9x333 = 3Ghz (cpu max = 3Ghz)
8x375 = 3Ghz
7x430 = 3Ghz
6x473 = 2.84Ghz (FSB max)