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bklyn1028

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This is probably said before but....I have never overclocked, but with the system i bought, why not. I have gone to 2.8 on the cpu, and that is it so far. Haven't touched ram, or voltages. My question is:
what do I do with ram. I don't wanna fry anything, I mean, how much noticable is all this going to do anyway, I believe everyone who overclocks does it because they can, and it's an ego thing, which is fine (otherwise I wouldn't have bought what I did).
However, do I leave "sli ready memory" disabled, enabled???....I read that if you have 667 memory, unlink in bios, and set it at 667, 800, set it at 800, 1066, set it at 1077. I did that (1066) and the timings went to 7-7-7 something. I got scared, and put everything back to default.
I know, chicken.....
buck,,,buck....anything help would be appreciated
 
Disable C1E, Speedstep and Thermal Control.

Disable anything Throttle or Spectrum related.

Set your RAM and FSB to unlinked.

Set your RAM to the advertised voltage and timings (manually)

Set your FSB Voltage to 1.4V and your CPU Voltage to 1.375 or so.

Now, since you have very good, fast memory, RAM won't be a problem.

Set your FSB to 1400 (3.15ghz) and see what happens.

If it works, try upping the FSB to 1600 (3.6ghz)

@ this point you'll probably have to up the CPU Voltage to 1.45V or so.

1.55V should be your maximum.

Use CoreTemp or Intel's TAT to monitor your temperatures.

Keep it under 65c during load.

Use Orthos to test for stability. (run small "test")
 
I appreciate your help. Soooooo......cpu i'm familiar with, I presume your telling me to change (in bios) the current ram setting from 800 to 1066, and the timings to....5-5-5-18?
 
plus,...the setting "sli ready memory"....I read if that is enabled, it will overclock itself?
 
If you are not running SLI, then disable the SLI RAM setting.

And yes, change the RAM timings to those (advertised right?)

Same with the RAM Voltage.

Now, best thing to do while testing, is to use a 1:1 setting. In this case it means that when setting the FSB to 1400 or 1600, your RAM should be set to half of that (700 or 800).

Doing this allows for better testing since your RAM can easily do those speeds (underclock) and any problems won't be RAM related.

Later on, after finding the right cpu voltage + FSB, you can try to run your RAM @ the default 1066 speed.

Run orthos for @ least 20 minutes to insure stability. Later on, you'd need to run it overnight to make sure your system is stable.

Also, write down your temperatures right now @ 2.8ghz, idle / load.

Then do the same @ 3.1ghz and 3.6ghz.

I also use a Thermalright Ultra 120 and it can keep my E6600 @ 4ghz idling @ 40c or lower.
 
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