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CPU FSB Voltage on E6600+680i

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Ok after weeks of reading up on the subject and finally getting my new PSU, HSF and case fans I have taken the plunge and overclocked.

Ok so 3GHz isn't terribly exciting for an E6600 but the sky didn't fall in on me so I'll keep going bit by bit. Temps haven't even changed by as much as a degree at this point either.

My question is really about the FSB Voltage. I set my CPU voltage to 1.3V to start with for this initial overclock but I wasn't quite sure what the CPU FSB Voltage exactly was and so with the BIOS set to [AUTO] it has decided to give it 1.4V, which is getting a little red square in the nvidia monitoring program.

How does the 'CPU FSB Voltage' relate to the 'CPU voltage' and should they be roughly the same as each other? Should I leave the FSB one on AUTO? Can anyone shed any light on this for me please?

EDIT: Oh I kept the multiplier at x9 and raised the FSB from 266 to 333.
 
you probably won't need to increase the FSB voltage until you get to 400-450+ FSB. (and with a e6600 - 9x multiplier, you probably wont get there)

So I'd leave it at Auto. Asus engineers are pretty smart, with Auto, it should go up a little bit with FSB increases.

Looks good so far if you're at 3Ghz with 1.3, hopefully you'll be able to hit 3.6Ghz at 9x400FSB!!! Thats kind of the magic #, if you can get a 50% overclock and/or a 400FSB so your ram is at spec at 1:1 memory ratio.
 
Thanks for the info and the swift reply!

It was originally 1.2V which is why the jump to 1.4V and the red square in the nvidia monitor alarmed me. I may put it back to 1.2 manually then and see how that goes.

The motherboard is the nvidia reference one made by a company I can't remember and sold by eVGA, not the ASUS board. I'm not sure how the engineers compare in measures of smartness. :)
 
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