Overclocking E6600

[Longy]

Recently overclocked this little puppy to 3.2ghz (400mhz x 8 ratio 1:1) and getting a steady 30c.

Anyone clocked it higher to 3.6ghz? is it stable? what temps you running?

 

[Rasclart]

I run mine at 3.2ghz as well

I did step it up to 3.5 on Air, but when rinsing games kept getting blue screens. Fiddled for ages and settled on 3.2 and has been steady since.

 

[Gareth]

how are you overclocking it then? Just changing the multiplier in the BIOS? I'm buying an £1100 setup at the end of the month (including the E6600)

 

[Rasclart]

Yep through the Bios

I use a Gigabyte DS4 motherboard

What board you planning on using Gareth? Some are better overclockers than others. You wont have any problems seeing 3.2 on the E6600 though

 

[Rasclart]

It isnt just the Multiplier though, fiddling with that. Also need to fiddle with memory timings etc and decent memory is important IMO for a stable overclock

 

[Longy]

I'm using a Asus P5W DH mobo with 2 gig Corsair DDR2 800mhz Ram.

The E6600 runs with the multiplier of x9 but I had to drop this to 8 and set the FSB to 400mhz so I could run my ram at 800mhz (ratio 1:1) I also had to up the V-core slightly and turned off all other safety apps.

 

[Gareth]

i was going to go for the Gigabyte DS4 with 2GB 800MHz RAM, but am currently going for the following :

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=491417

with 2GB 1066MHz RAM and an XFX 8800GTX 1900 or 2000

 

[Longy]

i was going to go for the Gigabyte DS4 with 2GB 800MHz RAM, but am currently going for the following :

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=491417

with 2GB 1066MHz RAM and an XFX 8800GTX 1900 or 2000

Its a very nice board and thats a good price aswell! Like the network options you get with it.

 

[Gareth]

yeah, unfortunately its just gone out of stock, so may have a bit of ball-ache trying to get hold of one.