Need help OC'ing P5N-E SLI

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RooK

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Woot... So i finally decided to hop on the PCI-E bandwagon..

obviously i've got the asus p5n-e SLI (as reviewed on hardocp.com)
I decided to go low end with the e6300
and I have some buffallo firesticks pc-6400 (micron d9's)

So, I know I can over clock... however, i'm extremely new to this whole DDR2 stuff, and there are so many BIOS settings, I have NO idea where to start.

If someone would be so kind as to point me in the general direction of what I need to do to get my FSB up to around 950 or so, and what this whole linked, and unlinked memory, and any other wierd settings that I should know...

umm... i'll give you a big kiss? No... I can't do that.

But i'll be grateful!
 
I've got this board and oced a 6600 on it. I unlinked the memory and fsb and run them at a 1:1. It was giving me way high memory speeds when set to linked. You have to divide the fsb by 4 to get the actual number. So if you want a 400 fsb you would need to set teh bios at 1600. Memory however is standard and you want to set it at half of your bios setting or double the actual fsb. Bump up the vcore to about 1.4, memory to 2.08 or the next one up, manually set memory timings, turn off the features you aren't using and you should be good. Run memtest to make sure your memory can run at what you set it at and if it passes, boot up and try orthos. If you computer fails orthos, try giving it more voltage or back off the fsb. I'm still new at this so there are others that can help you much more, but that should be enough to get you started.

Edit: Also be sure to lock the PCI frequency to 100.
 
holy crap....

I've taken it up from 1.86 to 3.15 with latencies of 4-4-4-10-2 and not even touch voltages....

the cpu isn't getting warmer than 50 C, and the NB is about the same.... Completely stable - i'm really impressed...

I dunno if this is a good score in 3dmark2006 or not, but here it be... Its probably not the best 1000 bucks i've ever spent, but this is definitely the coolest :p

9535
 
RooK said:
holy crap....

I've taken it up from 1.86 to 3.15 with latencies of 4-4-4-10-2 and not even touch voltages....

the cpu isn't getting warmer than 50 C, and the NB is about the same.... Completely stable - i'm really impressed...

I dunno if this is a good score in 3dmark2006 or not, but here it be... Its probably not the best 1000 bucks i've ever spent, but this is definitely the coolest :p

9535
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If the voltages are set to auto, they may be way high. Auto =/= stock. Also, be sure that your memory isn't the reason you're failing orthos by running memtest86 at boot. And are you able to run orthos for 12+ hours at those speeds or just boot windows? The reason I ask is your computer may start crashing once you start taxing the cpu(through gaming, video encoding/decoding, etc).
 
i ran orthos for a little bit... no errors...

played BF2 for about 3 hours... works great.

is that a low 3dmark score for a 8800GTS 320 ?
 
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