currently 400fsb advice plz.

[FanMasta]

I have
CPU: Conroe E6600 @ 3.6ghz
mobo: ASUS P5W DH Deluxe (1602)
memory: G.Skill 2Gb DDR2 HZ PC2-6400
graphic: eVGA 8800GTS 640MB
hard drive: Raptor 10k 150gb
PSU: thermaltake tough power 750W
cooling: modded air

Ok I wanted at least over 400FSB so I tried lot of things
vcore: 1.550v
vdimm: 2.25v
vMCH: 1.65v
vFSB: 1.4v
vICH: auto
memory 1:1 (5-5-5-16)
core temp: idle-39c load-50c
AIbooster: idle-28c load-40c
2 x prime95 =more than 10hr stable

So what do ya'll think?
Should I lower the voltages? lot of other people are way lower than mine.
should I keep going? Is temp fine to handle vcore?
anyway advise plz.

 

[ghost6303]

temps are fine, i doubt you will be able to get much more out of that chip with that board though, at 401 the northbridge strap changes to 1333 and i havnt been able to get mine to boot anything over 400fsb.

 

[FanMasta]

I tried 410fsb on the same setting, it got error in 2 min so I changed all the voltage max but didn't work... If it is the board. Than how did some other ppl got it above 400? volt mod?

 

[Mansize_tissue]

You could see if your RAM is holding you back by running it at a higher speed than the FSB with a 4:5 ratio, or something.

 

[BillParrish]

You could see if your RAM is holding you back by running it at a higher speed than the FSB with a 4:5 ratio, or something.

ram validation +1

yep yep underclock the cpu (drop mulitplier or change memory divider) adjust your FSB to set the memory speed just over 800 and run memtest and think about 5 5 5 18 5 5 5 16 is a little "strange"


This may be causing you an issue as well. Its what ghost6303 is talking about. But actually at 401 the strap for the northbridge timings reset down to the 1333 strap from a highly overclocked state and should be better for OCing. However memory latency suffers some. I cant find the post on bleeding edge again (had it but lost it ) as you have to get past a "guest" sceen and lose the link to the original post.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=106834

found it, af the bottom of the "guest screen" do a formum jump to get in, you want to go here -
OCZ Forum > OCZ Performance Tuning > Motherboard Performance Tuning > Intel Motherboards and CPU's >
Intel Motherboard Section Sticky

there is also an 171 page post on your MB on XS that would be well worth a read the next time you have a couple of hours to kill.