Need help overclocking E6400

[motoxjosh17]

I am still really new to overclocking and so I don’t know much, but I am trying to learn. Right now i am running at 3.2 What I have is the Intel E6400 and right now my settings are
CPU clock ratio 8x
CPU host frequency 400
System memory multiplier 2.00
Memory frequency 800
CAS latency time 5
DRAM RAS# to CAS# Delay 5
DRAM RAS# Precharge 5
Percharge dealy (tRAS) 15
DIMM over voltage control to +0.1v
CPU voltage control (1.29375v)
Normal voltage 1.27500v
What I would like to know is how high can I take everything? Like max Vcore and all that. Right know I am running air cooling and at max I am at 55c°load but I have water cooling coming Tuesday (Aquastar AS-3000) from what I have read it is a good start, and should let me overclock. It has the CPU block and a VGA block

This is what i have

GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 Socket T (LGA 775) Intel P965 Express ATX Intel Motherboard
Thermaltake W0093RU ATX 12V 2.0 Version 500W Power Supply - Retail
OCZ S.O.E 1GB (2 x 512MB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 900(PC2 7200) Dual Channel Kit System Memory Model OCZ2SOE9001GK
ZALMAN CNPS7700-CU 120mm 2 Ball Cooling Fan with Copper Heatsink
Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 Conroe 2.13GHz LGA 775 Processor Model BX80557E6400
ANY HELP ANYONE CAN GIVE WOULD BE VERY APPRECIATED THANKS

 

[LordLeeCH]

I managed to get mine to 3.6ghz at 1.575 vcore. I have an AC 7 on it, and my temps get kinda high. Using a "real world" example, I can play Need For Speed Carbon for about 2 hours and the cpu gets to 144F. Even at that temp though, Dual Prime ran for 4 hours without a hitch.

I don't think my results are too uncommon. Honestly, with water cooling, you might be able to puch the envelope and hit 3.8. My board simply will not go past 451 mhz fsb. Beyond that, it just refuses to boot. Good Luck!

 

[Arcygenical]

Your chip should bottleneck before your RAM does...

So, keep increasing the FSB until your unstable, then increase the Vcore until your temperatures are about 65'c in TAT or Core Temp (that's a MAX value, 62 is more recommended).

Make sure your RAM is running .1v over recommended voltage (whatever the product page says) Nice RAM BTW.

Max Vcore IMO should be about 1.45 in the BIOS, 1.41 in windows (Vdroop), and your Vdimm shouldn't exceed 2.2v

Other than that... Get that FSB up to 445 + and really get a nice OC going!

 

[motoxjosh17]

thanks for all your help i will try and let you know how it goes thanks and i would still take input from anyone