Building a system for a buddy.. we are shooting for what im reading is a mild OC on his E6400. We would like to hit the 3ghz mark. Can someone give me some Settings for this? Memory devider? Is there still an HT setting to turn down? Im going to start it at 1.2V and only add voltage if unstable. His memory is Corsair XMS PC800 and his board is the Gigabyte 965P DS3. Are the multipliers locked on these chips? Thanks for any info.
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Conroe OC question.
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BillParrish
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On that board all you do is increase the FSB and voltages as needed.
Ctrl + F1 to get into the memory settings.
run 2:1 memory divider (which is really 1 to 1 ) at 400 fsb memroy will be running at 800Mhz which is per its spec and
Cpu mulitplier is 8 x 400 = 3.2 GHz
In bios turn off all the strange cpu options and temp monitoring, set cpu fan speed control on manual or auto cant remember which, if you do a search of these forums (DS3) you will find several posts of specific bios setttings for the board options. My bios is close but not quite the same.
AFTER you make sure it is stable at stock setting and run ORTHOS and Coretemp for 10 minutes to verify proper operations and warm up the heatsink grease/compound. Shutdown and on reboot go into bios and raise the memory voltage to 2.0 volts. Set the memory timings to what coursair says is the rated values at DDR2 800, Raise the CPU voltage to 1.375 V and increase the FSB in increments of 50Mhz or so, rebooting and running ORTHOS for 5 min and watching core temp after each change. Record your temp data at each FSB at both idle and after 5 min of ORTHOS. Coretemp should not exceed 65C at load. Stop if temps get above that under load.
Do not rely on the temps with the crappy Gigabyte included utility.
You probally will be able to run right up to 400 MHz no sweat. At worst might have to go to 1.4V on CPU if you got a stinker but just have to see.
Once you reach your desired overclock or start to get toasty on the temps. You can try reducing the CPU voltage by a little and seeing if you can sustain a stable overclock which will drop your temps.
Personally I would not go above 1.4V on the CPU and 2.2 v on that memory but I am conservative and like long life out of my stuff. People have certainly gone higher.
Ctrl + F1 to get into the memory settings.
run 2:1 memory divider (which is really 1 to 1 ) at 400 fsb memroy will be running at 800Mhz which is per its spec and
Cpu mulitplier is 8 x 400 = 3.2 GHz
In bios turn off all the strange cpu options and temp monitoring, set cpu fan speed control on manual or auto cant remember which, if you do a search of these forums (DS3) you will find several posts of specific bios setttings for the board options. My bios is close but not quite the same.
AFTER you make sure it is stable at stock setting and run ORTHOS and Coretemp for 10 minutes to verify proper operations and warm up the heatsink grease/compound. Shutdown and on reboot go into bios and raise the memory voltage to 2.0 volts. Set the memory timings to what coursair says is the rated values at DDR2 800, Raise the CPU voltage to 1.375 V and increase the FSB in increments of 50Mhz or so, rebooting and running ORTHOS for 5 min and watching core temp after each change. Record your temp data at each FSB at both idle and after 5 min of ORTHOS. Coretemp should not exceed 65C at load. Stop if temps get above that under load.
Do not rely on the temps with the crappy Gigabyte included utility.
You probally will be able to run right up to 400 MHz no sweat. At worst might have to go to 1.4V on CPU if you got a stinker but just have to see.
Once you reach your desired overclock or start to get toasty on the temps. You can try reducing the CPU voltage by a little and seeing if you can sustain a stable overclock which will drop your temps.
Personally I would not go above 1.4V on the CPU and 2.2 v on that memory but I am conservative and like long life out of my stuff. People have certainly gone higher.
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Im running the same board, but with an E6300, and let me tell you this: Getting 3.2GHz 24/7 stable should take all of about 2 minutes 
. Set these option:
CPU Vcore 1.356 (start here, increase only if not stable)
DDR ratio to 2:1 (equals 1:1 with FSB)
DDR Vdimm +3 or 4
mch +2
FSB +2
Memory timings as per what your ram can run at (4/4/4/12 / 5/5/5/15 etc....)
turn off ALL "special" cpu advances "IE" EIST, thermal management, etc....
adjust your boot setup accordingly
This should be a perfect OC for you, and the PC will FLY.
. Set these option:CPU Vcore 1.356 (start here, increase only if not stable)
DDR ratio to 2:1 (equals 1:1 with FSB)
DDR Vdimm +3 or 4
mch +2
FSB +2
Memory timings as per what your ram can run at (4/4/4/12 / 5/5/5/15 etc....)
turn off ALL "special" cpu advances "IE" EIST, thermal management, etc....
adjust your boot setup accordingly
This should be a perfect OC for you, and the PC will FLY.
BillParrish
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use the max cpu temp setting in the bios which will make the board beep if that temp is exceeded. Turn off all the other fancy intel crap.
You stress test the board for stability after you reach your overclock and monitor temps. Unless the heatsink falls off later you should never exceed those temps. What I am saying is that you verify your overclock/stability by worst case stressing the board and if it passes you should never in normal use exceed the temps generated there.
Use Orthos to stress and Coretemp to monitor temps.
F8 is a beta, it will be on gigabytes site in a week or so, dont worry about it now.
You stress test the board for stability after you reach your overclock and monitor temps. Unless the heatsink falls off later you should never exceed those temps. What I am saying is that you verify your overclock/stability by worst case stressing the board and if it passes you should never in normal use exceed the temps generated there.
Use Orthos to stress and Coretemp to monitor temps.
F8 is a beta, it will be on gigabytes site in a week or so, dont worry about it now.
Thanks for all the input... what im worried about is its about 6-8 degrees cooler in my house then it is in the summer.. im afraid my stress testing in these temps wont give me the max temps it will hit during the summer time.... Ill give it a shot tho!