1st Attempt at overclocking P5W DH & E6600

[tuffin]

Hi, this is my 1st post on the forum so be nice to me please :).

I have just started to overclock my e6600 in my P5W DH board and at the moment I am running @ 3.6Ghz is there anyway I can improve on this.
http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=181768"> Valid CPU-Z</a>

Its my birthday soon is the Antec 900 a good case for air cooling ?

[mid9XtremOC3r]

You meant this
http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=181768

Looks pretty sweet!

[DAK1640]

3.6 Is a GREAT OC...For us to be of any real value, we need rig specs, and DETAILS...Congrats to your achievement & welcome to XS...:toast: :banana: :toast:

[tuffin]

hi just had to turn my overclock down to 3.4ghz as 3.6 wasn't stable as it caused my sound card not to be detected and windows media play to mess up saying the songs i wanted to play could not be found

[skogkatt]

3.6 Is a GREAT OC...For us to be of any real value, we need rig specs, and DETAILS...Congrats to your achievement & welcome to XS...:toast: :banana: :toast:

Maybe I should be happy with my OC then... I have a similar setup, orthos stable (9 hours) for specs in sig, but my board won't allow me to go over FSB 410, while I feel to CPU could go higher. Maybe I should switch to 965 or 680/650i? Advices welcome!

[newls1]

hi just had to turn my overclock down to 3.4ghz as 3.6 wasn't stable as it caused my sound card not to be detected and windows media play to mess up saying the songs i wanted to play could not be found

Did you lock the PCI bus @ 33.33? You say your using an XF-i card, change the PCI latency to 64 in the BIOS, I'll bet that it is @ 32 now set in the BIOS. Creative told me when I was having a similiar issue as you, to change the latency to 64 or 128, as soon as I changed to 64 games stopped freezing, and windows would stop locking up.

[tuffin]

Did you lock the PCI bus @ 33.33? You say your using an XF-i card, change the PCI latency to 64 in the BIOS, I'll bet that it is @ 32 now set in the BIOS. Creative told me when I was having a similiar issue as you, to change the latency to 64 or 128, as soon as I changed to 64 games stopped freezing, and windows would stop locking up.

hmmm not sure i shall check that when i win this poker tour :D

[tuffin]

tried what you said an orthos would only run for 33 seconds and I also got to see the blue screen of death in vista i was expecting it to have bells and whistles but it didnt

[newls1]

are you using the latest BIOS for your board? Have you adjusted your Voltages for NB,SB, CPU VCore, MEM, etc.....? What ar e they at. Give me a list of specs and I'll see what I can do to help you stabilize your OC>

[tuffin]

Hi back again this time with results.
Lowered my overclock to 3.4Ghz (380*9)
Memory is set to 5-5-5-15 through memset as if i change my them in my bios my computer wont boot ( i think its a known bug ).

3d Mark 03
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l307/tuffin86/3d03cpuoc.jpg
3d Mark 05
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l307/tuffin86/3d05cpuoc.jpg
3d Mark 06
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l307/tuffin86/3d06cpuoc.jpg
Pc Mark 05
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l307/tuffin86/pcmark.jpg
Super Pi
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l307/tuffin86/superpi.jpg
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l307/tuffin86/cpuz-1.jpg
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l307/tuffin86/cpuz2.jpg
The only overclock on the system is my cpu the gpu was left untouched
can anyone see any room for improvement ?

[puttekula]

and the voltage for the mobo? Raise it one step from auto for each of them.