Overclocking my E6600.

[Sonosmo]

Can anybody recommend some good tips. I'm a n00b.

I have the P5N32 SLi SE Deluxe motherboard. And DDR2 800 OCZ Platinum ram.

[Sonosmo]

By the way, I have no intention of opening my case and clearing CMOS data just to get my PC working again. I'm only after a light overclock. e.g 3.0GHz

[pt]

By the way, I have no intention of opening my case and clearing CMOS data just to get my PC working again. I'm only after a light overclock. e.g 3.0GHz

what's the problem with clearign cmos and opening your case?
if you don't wan't/can't to do it i suggest not overclocking ;)

[Sonosmo]

Nah I can't do it. Don't know how. I'm sure a simple OC will be fine.

[Sonosmo]

http://img.techpowerup.org/070113/ignroign.jpg

SUCK IT

[pt]

Nah I can't do it. Don't know how. I'm sure a simple OC will be fine.

you don't know how to open your case? :wtf:
is it a pre built pc?

[Jon G]

Just use Ai Suite its simple. Just raise your frequency try to add 10 at a time until you get where you want.

[Sonosmo]

I got to 2700MHz in the BIOS. Then it failed to boot Very odd, should go WAY higher.

[Sonosmo]

Can't find AI Suite on the net anywhere...

[xylomn]

the higher you clock your cpu the more voltage you need to send to it

[Sonosmo]

Yeah I know but I was expecting more than a 300MHz overclock on stock voltages :confused:

[pt]

you're not going far with the stock cooler....

[tigger]

i found this-
http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle.aspx?page=3&articleid=729

Investigating the issue, we found that in the Hardware Monitoring section of the BIOS, that the CPU was consistently undervolted, usually by a solid volt off of the expected value. That is, even if we raised the voltage elsewhere, the VCORE Voltage would be one volt lower. We managed to gain a bit of stability by manually raising the CPU voltage, but still found that the system became unresponsive from time to time.


Overclocking the P5N32-SLI is straightforward; under the Advanced Options check into the CPU Configuration and turn off the AI Overclocking, which is Asus' built-in method of raising the speeds, by changing the setting to "Manual". This allows the user to choose from a new menu called Performance Options. It's on this screen that the most tinkering will be done. Curiously, instead of entering in the CPU Clockspeed, as it appears to suggest that you should, the FSB Clock is entered. For example, to manually enter the stock speed of the Pentium 4 550 CPU, you would enter in 800MHz (200MHz x 4). It's a little too abstract, in our opinion, and could throw some users off as they are typically used to a range of 200-450MHz instead of 800-2000MHz. If the clock mode is left as linked, the new memory speed will be displayed above the CPU speed, or this can be set to Manual which allows the user to manually enter both speeds, independent of each other. Memory timings can also be set on this page, depending on whether or not the user wants to manually enter the timings or simply leave them to be determined by SPD. Finally, the PCI-E frequency can be manually set to prevent the graphics card PCIe links from running too far out of specifications. Running this too far off of expected speeds can easily disrupt the operation of most motherboards, so it's best to leave it at 100MHz.



hope this helps.

[Echelon]

i got the exact same chip, and almost same chipset (i got the p5n-e sli) and i got mine to 2760MHz stable, but my cpu is water cooled. now i could go higher, i just need to see if its actually worth it to go any higher (the speed i am at now shreads about 3, almost 4 seconds off super pi). and my memory is at 920 Mhz, and its corsair.

[WarEagleAU]

on stock voltage and stock cooler, you should do well to get above 3.0GHz. You should get right around 3100mhz, if Im not mistaken.

[Sonosmo]

Exactly...but I found out that this board isn't all that great for clocking. The stock voltages were set quite low...lower than should be. So I raised them back to 1.325 (stock E6600) and all the proggies still report lower voltages.

[Echelon]

Exactly...but I found out that this board isn't all that great for clocking. The stock voltages were set quite low...lower than should be. So I raised them back to 1.325 (stock E6600) and all the proggies still report lower voltages.
what is the voltage on yours, mine is hovering anywhere between 1.2 and 1.3 in cpuz

[WarEagleAU]

strange for an Asus board to act this way. Is that the eco model?

[Echelon]

naw, it the p5n-e sli, its not the low end of the new 600 series nvidia chipsets. its the 650i sli, so its right in the middle between then 650i ultra and the 680i sli.

[Sky]

i also have the same cpu and board. il do an OC after i get a new cooler. anyone with a quick stable guide on an OC with this setup please post it up =)

[Sonosmo]

Keeps rebooting when I play games so I'm gonna go back to stock. Was good to try though.

[Echelon]

Keeps rebooting when I play games so I'm gonna go back to stock. Was good to try though.

get a aftermarket cooler, like the freezer 7 pro from arctic cooling, or go water cooled. i had the freezer 7 before i went water cooled, and it was good, quiet, never tried oc'ing it too much though. you system keeps rebooting most likely because it either is overheating, or your ram can't handle the faster speeds, but i see you got ocz, and that should be good for ocing though....