Need some overclocking help...

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janitor53

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Just built a 6600 with a badaxe2 mobo. Never really done any overclocking but I wanted to give it a try, so pardon the newb questions. I read through the forums and various "how to" guides and ended up with these settings:

Voltages:
FSB 1.4
Memory 2.2
MCH 1.6
CPU 1.45

I would adjust the FSB to 333 so I could try for to reach 3.0 ghz.

Every time I exit BIOS and try to load, it says the BIOS detected a bad post and do I wan to try again or enter BIOS.
I decided to dial it down and just overclock to 2.5 to see if I could get something going and it still gave me the error message. Is there anything else I need to be adjusting in BIOS? Anything at all? I feel like I'm missing something simple. This is my first overclock, but I can't make any progress whatsoever. Any help anyone could give would be great.

Oh, and another weird side effect, I restored my settings to what they were before so I could load up windows and now CPU-Z says I'm running at 1.6 GHZ instead of 2.4. Windows itself tells me 2.4 but it definately changed in the CPU-Z reading. Once again, sorry for the newbness of the questions, I just feel lost at this point.
Thanks.
 
Have you remembered to set your Memory divider to 1:1. If not you are probably flatlining your memory. also you don't need all that much Voltage to reach just 3GHz, I have set 1.35v in BIOS for 3.2GHz, also I think the Voltage for the MCH is pretty high, you should have no issues getting it down a bit, but get it stable first and the see if you can back some of the voltages down.

What memory are you running btw?
 
thanks for the response. Not sure how to set the memory divider? I have some crucial ballistix because of the fire sale on RAM lately. It's more upscale than I would normally run but it was relatively cheap.
 
You should be able to set the speed of your memory in the BIOS, you will want to set it to the lowest possible speed, that should corrospond (spelling?) to 1:1
 
that cpu voltage is very high, what heatsink are you using? the stock one? your temps are going to be pretty high, i would leave this setting on the default 1.35, most people can overclock atleast %25 without even touching this voltage. if you need more try 1.4
 
janitor53 said:
Oh, and another weird side effect, I restored my settings to what they were before so I could load up windows and now CPU-Z says I'm running at 1.6 GHZ instead of 2.4. Windows itself tells me 2.4 but it definately changed in the CPU-Z reading. Once again, sorry for the newbness of the questions, I just feel lost at this point.
Thanks.
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Sounds like you have thermal throttling on.. If so, and you want to maintain a solid clock speed, disable the thermal throttling.
 
I'm using a thermaltake V1 heatsink...so I can really ratchet it up...but I need to get going a little bit first and it won't even post no matter what small change I make. Of course, I'm a newb to overclocking so I'm sure I'm missing some mundane detail.
 
The thermal throttling option is in your bios.. Not on your HSF. Simply disable thermal throttling and you will maintain a constant overclock, rather than it throttling down to conserve power.
 
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