Why am I finding overclocking so difficult?

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PCMusicGuy

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I admit it. I am a complete overclocking newbie. I have done quite a bit of reading on the subject and it doesn't sound very difficult, yet I am having no luck with manual overclocking. So I turn to the overclocking gurus here to tell me what I'm doing wrong. First off, this is the rig:

E6600 (Scythe Infinity cooler)
Biostar P965
2GB Corsair DDR2 667 (2048-5400C4)

Initial configuration without touching any settings are:
CPU Voltage of 1.325
RAM Voltage of 1.8

What I have been able to do at these settings is increase the FSB to around 295 MHz. That only gives me a 9% overclock (somewhere around 2.6 GHz). That was easy enough so I tried to boot directy to 333 MHz making it 1:1 and the system would not boot. I could not even get into the BIOS. Okay, not the end of the world so I clear the CMOS and try again with a higher CPU voltage (1.35). I would suspect I'm taking the correct approach but I'm not really sure. I'm not adverse to increasing the CPU voltage to get me to 3.0 GHz but from other examples I've seen 1.35 should at least be enough to get to 333. Please, educate me in the ways of overclocking. Thanks, and Happy Thanksgiving.
 
RAM voltage is way too low. You'll need at least 2.0v, and probably 2.1 or 2.2 to get decent overclocks out of it. Keep in mind that whenever you change your CPU speed, the RAM speed is dependent on that.

CPU voltage should be ok for small overclocks, but you're going to have to up that slightly as well if you want to get more than 300mhz.
 
finalgt said:
RAM voltage is way too low. You'll need at least 2.0v, and probably 2.1 or 2.2 to get decent overclocks out of it. Keep in mind that whenever you change your CPU speed, the RAM speed is dependent on that.

CPU voltage should be ok for small overclocks, but you're going to have to up that slightly as well if you want to get more than 300mhz.
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Are you saying increasing the FSB will be more demanding on the RAM and the RAM voltage will need to increase as well? Thanks for the input.
 
Yeah, FSB affects RAM and CPU, and you'll need more power to the RAM to get it to run at those speeds.
 
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