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q6600 overclocking help

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I have an Asus P5n-e SLI with 2x2GB OCZ SLI Ready memory pc6400 and 8800GTS SLI setup. I was told that in order for my sli setup to work to its fullest potential I need to achieve a cpu clock of at least 3.2GHZ. I am new to overclocking so bare with me.

I started increasing the fsb and running the wprime stability test and reporting back with no errors.(btw, i am running intel stock cooler) I managed to get my fsb up to 1175MHZ with a vcore of 1.3V which I hopefully can bring down a lot. While running wprime my temps were 60, 60, 56, 56. When I try to go to 1200MHZ fsb my system crashes when the vista screen is loading. No matter how high I set the vcore voltage it crashes at the same spot everytime. When i back the fsb down to 1175mhz it works fine.

My vcore is 1.3, my northbridge is around 1.3v and my ram is 2.1v.

I have a G0 stepping and a my bios version is 901. Ive tried updating but would have some sort of problem.

Am I an unlucky owner that got a bad chip for overclocking or is there somthing i am not setting?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
 
Need a better CPU cooler for one. I have mine running at 3.74Ghz and it only gets to 62C max with all 4 cores fully loaded.

It could also be your power supply or dirty power from the wall plug.
 
What cyclone said. Get a better cooler. If you want to push more fsb, bump your nb/vtt voltage a few notches.
 
try a mem divider to rule out mem being maxed. idk if intel systems have the equivilant to a htt (northbridge) multi or not, but drop that 1 notch if u can
 
Let me ask something else.

What would be the highest overclock I could achieve with stock cooling?

Here are my current settings set in the bios that I could set:

Vcore voltage: 1.29
Memory voltage: 2.09
Northbridge voltage: 1.3
CPU voltage offset: Auto(there is also +100mv but i dont know what that does)

RAM speed: 800hz 4-4-4-14 timings

FSB: 1175mhz
cpu multiplier 9

These are the settings that I could set on my asus p5n-e sli board.

I still cannot get a stable overclock over 1200mhz fsb.

Let me know if I should change any of these or if anyone knows about my board and can give any tips on it.


Thanks
 
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