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Help a fellow E6400er out

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Benton The Race

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Hey guys I just got my E6400 today and it rocks. However, I am in need of serious OC help because I am used to an AMD system. I am using a P5B vanilla and am lost. I don't see any way to up the FSB Speed. Am I missing something here? All I see is the jumper free confiuration so I messed around with that and got this stable:

CPU Frequency: 280
DDRM: 533 mhz
Current CPU Clock: 2.3ghz

How do I up everything higher so I can get past 2.6ghz or so. I am really a noob and would love some help!

Thanks
 
Can someone please help me out. Jesus I was so excited to OC and now I am stuck and no one can take a minute to help!? Pleaes guys, I know you know this stuff. I've googled and seaerched but I can't figure it out. Everytime I raise CPU frequecny over 290 my PC stops working. What is a safe voltage to up it to?
 
Benton The Race said:
CPU Frequency: 280
DDRM: 533 mhz
Current CPU Clock: 2.3ghz
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That's Engrish for FSB, gotta love these BIOS translation jobs! :D

Up the Vcore once you hit the wall on your FSB. I think the absolute max for Conroe is 1.5V, so I'd stay below 1.4V.
 
I can't tell you much about that board. The DS3 is pretty straight forward.

First turn off everything you don't need. Serial ports, Parallel ports, Legacy USB, etc.
Make sure anything like EIST, Thermal Throttling, etc is off.

Find the 1:1 divider for your FSB/Memory timing. Every board name sit different, its freaking stoopid. It may be a specific DDR2 speed, or just some odd numbers, but it will obviously be near the memory config.

Loosen your memory timings. I don't know what you got, but if its rated to do DDR2 800 at 5-5-5-12 try that. Pump some more juice into it, +2/+3 vdim.

Lock your PCI Express to 100, if you have a lock for PCI put it on 33.
You can pump up the Vcore pretty high without any issues. Stock is usually 1.325. 1.55 won't kill it, but don't want to run that 24/7 without WC'ing atleast prolly. But push up it there to try and get into windows and find whats stable. Then slowly work it down.

You'll also need a little more MCH voltage prolly. +1/+2 v.

Try and make only 1 adjustment at a time so you know what works and doesn't work.
 
Okay, so right now I am going to try the following.

DDRM: 533mhz (aka 1:1)
PICE: 100
Vcore: just under 1.5v
Turn of everything I don't need

Now, how do I loosen my ram timings?


Thanks for the replies guys!
 
Sounds like you should check out the O/C forum some more and search around for some overclocking guides if you're asking this.
 
Just under 1.5 should give you at least 3.2ghz. If you have to put it that high for 2.6 you are in trouble.
 
Maybe I am missing something here...Whatever I do I cannot pass 290 for the FSB. Here are my settings that are running stable now.

DRAM: 533mhz
PCIE:100
Mem. V. 2.1v
CPU vcore: auto
FSB:290
Idle temp: 41 celsius

These settings are stable now and I am getting 2.33ghz. When I up the voltage it seems to do nothing but increase heat, I see no gains to the CPU clock. Is there something I should do.
I have a week 25 CPU which I heard were supposed to be the best overclockers so that shouldn't be an issue.
 
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