A voltage question

[Red Dawg]

My first try here at overclocking :eek:

I have a E6600 running on a Asus Striker motherboard and I did a moddest overclock, took it from 2.4ghz to 2.7ghz by raising the FSB from 1066 to 1200.
All went well, ran Orthos for 12 hours fine.

Now if I go any higher in FSB and boot into windows, PCProbe gives me an alarm and tells me that my Vcore is too high it's reading 1.39v and my CPU VTT is too high as well it's at 1.38.

But I left my voltage in my bios on AUTO (Default) didn't change it at all.

This normal? should I manually set the voltages? I was hoping to go as high as I could go in FSB without raising the voltages.

[BenchZowner]

Yes it is normal.
Leaving the Voltages @ Auto 'gives the authority' to the motherboard to change them at will.
Overclocking and Voltage options @ auto = not the best idea.

Also uplift the thresholds for those voltages @ PC Probe, they're safe.

[Red Dawg]

Ok great, thanks BenchZowner. :clap:

I'll post results.

[Red Dawg]

Ok I set the voltage to defaults from AUTO and set the fsb to 1400 so I'm now running my E6600 @ 3150mhz. been running Orthos now for about 2 1/2 hours without errors. Core Temp gives me a temp of 61c (core#0) and 60c (core#1) Sounds a little high to me, but I'm running the standard Intel Heat sink. I think I'll go look at what 3rd party heat sinks are available at my local computer store.

This E6600 I have seems like a pretty good overclocker.

[7499richard]

Red Dawg...

How are you running TAT on a 680i chipset. I thought it only worked on an intel chipset based mobo???

[Red Dawg]

yup I am running it on a 680I A Asus Striker. seems to be working for me.. maybe it needs a intel CPU?? donno..

[Red Dawg]

oops, sorry, not TAT. I am running Orthos Beta by Johnny Lee

sorry for the confusion .

Edited above to fix my error.

[7499richard]

ok hahaha....ya I know it needs an intel chip...lol