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Overclocking e6400 on P5b-E

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Mike_Check

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Hey there, I'm a first time overclocker and am having trouble getting past 2.8ghz with my e6400. Currently the CPU frequency is 350 and the memroy is 2.0v, I've left the CPU frequency on auto as taking it higher causes instability, as does taking the fequency higher. I am talking like JUST in windows then freeze kind of instability.

Anyone with the best settings to get to 3.2ghz (that's the speed I would love to get to) could you post them please? preferably in a BIOS-like setup so I know what to change.

Thanks

Oh and for reference my system is: e6400, Asus P5B-E, 2 x Corasair Value Select VS512667d2, Thermalright Ultra 120. and I think that's all you need.

Help appreciated.

Mike
 
Hiya and welcome.

Need a bit more info, what is your memory frequency divider (not sure exactly what its called on that board) set to ? And are the memory timings on auto or have you manually set them.

I suspect your memory, Corsair 0512PC2-5400/ 5300 667MHz

at a FSB of 350 and if you memory divider is on a kinda "normal" setting your memory will be getting 700MHz which is not overclocking the memory much but with the value select you would probally need to loosen the timings to go much more with FSB.

Anywho, little more info, download and run Coretemp and let us know your idle temps and what I think will tell the story, download and make a floppy of memtest86+ (just google them to find a download) and put your settings at max stable and boot with the floppy and see if it will run one full pass without errors then increase the FSB by, say 10MHz and re-run it, if you get errors its you memory.

Kinda got to take a shot in the dark here without more details on exaclty how your bios is set up in regard to memory but perhaps an Asus guru will show up and know off the bat what the defaults are and how they setup memory on your board. .
 
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