Asus p5n-e sli oc issue

[JamesCurtis]

Hey guys, i'm trying to overclock my e6300 processor to fairly high speeds. I've seen that this board can do upwards of 500 mhz fsb in some reviews. Right now i've gotten the proc up to 2.4 ghz, but it was an unstable 2.4 ghz. My settings were 1366 fsb and 1066 memory speed (corsair dominator pc2 8500 mem). I had the vcore set at 1.36, nb set at 1.56, and memory timings at 5-5-5-15 2t, but i couldn't set the memory voltage to save my life. It seemed to cause more problems if i set the memory voltage manually, but it could've been a compilation of problems. At 2.4 ghz I couldn't run two instances of Prime95 and my ASUS utility was reporting 44C at the most. Is this a heat issue i'm running into? Any help would be appreciated, thx

Edit: Specs
Antec Nine-Hundred Case
Asus P5N-E SLI mobo
Corsair Dominator PC2-8500 2x1GB
Intel Core 2 Duo E6300
EVGA 8800GTX KO edition
750W Silverstone Modular PSU
2x 36GB 10k rpm raptor drives in Raid 0

 

[haadij404]

What I would do is first find the max your 6300 will be stable at. I have the same board and same proc and mine us rock sold at 3.2ghz at 1.39vcore with intel stock cooling Just set the memory as unlinked. And then after you have found out the max for the proc, go back and adjust the memory till you feel comfortable.

 

[JamesCurtis]

Thanks! You didn't give me an exact answer but you inspired me to work on it a little more. It turns out if i turned my ddr21066 dominator memory down to 800 speeds that I was able to overclock my processor past 2.4 ghz. I managed to get my fsb to 495 bootable into windows, 500 wasn't bootable but I imagine that that's a chipset limitation. I ended up bumping my chipset to 1.56v and proc to 1.39v. at 3.45 ghz I got a 17.64 second 1M superpi, and that's exactly what I was aiming for. However at 3.45 ghz it wasn't prime95 stable for even 2 seconds. I backed it down to 2.9 ghz and matched the fsb to memory 1:1, but that wasn't stable, so I backed the memory back down to 800 mhz and I'm going to try to hit 3.2 ghz and make it stable. It was quite the rush nonetheless, it's nice going from a non pci-locked k8 opteron mobo to a overclockable c2d motherboard. Thx haadij404