Question about ASUS Auto Overclocking Profiles.

[CLock3]

Hello. I've been wanting to OC my e6700 for a while now. I'm not looking for anything crazy, but I've read you can easily get around 3.5GHz out of them on air. Well, I was looking around my BIOS (mobo is a P5N32 SLI SE Deluxe) and I noticed that there are "Overclocking Profiles" that ASUS puts in there or something. I was wondering how well these work. I've never overclocked a CPU before, so if this profile thing works, it'd seem like a good option for me, but if a manual overclock would be better or there's something bad about using the profile, then I'd rather do it manually. The highest OC they give you is a 20%, which would get me to 3.20GHz, which is pretty much what I want to do, but I just wanted to hear from you all what you think about the whole thing. Also, if someone doesn't mind giving me some tips on a manual OC that'd be great. I've read a bunch of how-to's on here and other places, but it seems my BIOS is always different and such, so it's hard to learn when the settings are all different from the ones in the guides. My specs are in my sig as far as memory and such. So yeah, let me know what you all think. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks a bunch in advance.

 

[CLock3]

Well, I ended up trying a the profiles out. So far the one that works best is the 1280fsb option. It brings me up to 3GHz (I know, pretty weak, but hey) and it's stable as well. I ran Prime95 all night for like 8 hours and 23 minutes, and I got no warning and no errors. When I tried doing the 20% OC which brought me up to 3.2GHz the system would shut down right when I started the Prime95 test. So, looks like I'll just stick with my small overclock for now, haha. But if anyone can still help me out so I can get this thing up higher, that'd be great. Thanks again for any help. Later.

 

[magoo]

ASUS OC profiles and auto OC or nitro OC or whatever they are called, tend to be very weak and not useful.
If you feel good about fussing with your BIOS, just read this guide:www.nvidia.com/docs/CP/45121/nforce_680i_sli_overclocking.pdf

and go from there. Its very well written, and you'll be able to push your 6700 easily over 3.3 with little effort. I had one on my P5N-32E-SLI board and it was a breeze. Just watch the temps, you'll have to fuss with VCore a bit.

Just do it slow and fuss with one parameter at a time.....ie FSB>VCore>memory voltage.......you get the picture