Hi guys this is one of my first posts for overclocking, been on this website for a little while now and reading through some of this thread, alot of great stories with this board.
So after getting my gear together this is what I've got and what the settings and the results are below...
Mobo: GA-EP45-UD3P (Bios - F9)
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4GHz (currently overclocked to 3.49GHz)
Ram: G.Skill DDR2 4GB Kit PC8800 1100MHz
Case: Cooler Master HAF-932
CPU Fan: Can't remember the name but massive heatsink and fan
Graphics: 1 x Gigabyte GTX-285 and 1 x Geforce 7900 (for tripple monitor setup)
HDD: a couple of HDD...
I attempted to overclock my CPU, just by changing the bus frequency and RAM ratios.. At the moment I've overclocked it to 3.496GHz with ram sitting at 1165Mhz and ran PRIME for 10hrs without a problem. I didn't want to adjust any of the voltages as I wouldn't know where to start. If I go up just one more cpu frequency then the system crashes after 1 second in PRIME, so I've left it at 437 for now.
Below is all my BIOS settings, just wondering if you could look through it, see if I need to change anything to see if I can push this puppy any further. I prodominately use this computer for playing games (rFactor) and surfing the net etc...
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******Motherboard Intelligent Tweaker (M.I.T.)******
Robust Graphics Booster.........................[ Auto ]
CPU Clock Ratio.................................[ 8 ]
CPU Frequency 3.49GHz...........................[ 437 x 8 ]
******Clock Chip Control******
CPU Host Clock Control..........................[ Enabled ]
CPU Host Frequency (Mhz)........................[ 437 ]
PCI Express Frequency (Mhz).....................[ 100 ]
C.I.A 2.........................................[ Disabled ]
******Advanced Clock Control******
CPU Clock Drive.................................[ 700mv ]
PCI Express Clock Drive.........................[ 700mv ]
CPU Clock Skew..................................[ 0ps ]
MCH Clock Skew..................................[ 0ps ]
******DRAM Performance Control******
Performance Enhance.............................[ Standard ]
Extreme Memory Profile (X.M.P)..................[ Auto ]
(G) MCH Frequency Latch.........................[ Auto ]
System Memory Multipler.........................[ 2.66D ]
Memory Frequency 1066...........................[ 1165 ]
DRAM Timing Selectable..........................[ Manual ]
CAS Latency Time................................[ 5 ]
tRCD............................................[ 5 ]
tRP.............................................[ 5 ]
tRAS............................................[ 15 ]
******Advanced Timing Control******
tRRD[4].........................................[ 4 ]
tWTR[4].........................................[ 4 ]
tWR[13].........................................[ 13 ]
tRFC[68]........................................[ 68 ]
tRTP[4].........................................[ 4 ]
Command Rate (cmd)[0]...........................[ Auto ]
******Channel A Timing Settings******
Static tRead Value [ 10 ] ...............[ Auto ]
tRD Phase0 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ]
tRD Phase1 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ]
tRD Phase2 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ]
tRD Phase3 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ]
tRD 2rd (Differnt Rank) [ 8 ] ................[ Auto ]
tWR 2wr (Differnt Rank) [ 8 ] ................[ Auto ]
tWR 2rd (Differnt Rank) [ 7 ] ................[ Auto ]
tRD 2wr (Same/Difft Rank) [ 9 ] ................[ Auto ]
Dimm 1 Clock Skew Control.......................[ Auto ]
Dimm 2 Clock Skew Control.......................[ Auto ]
DDR Write Training..............................[ Auto ]
******Channel A Driving Settings******
Drive Strength Profile..........................[ Auto ]
Data Driving Pull Up Level......................[ Auto ]
cmd Driving Pull Up Level.......................[ Auto ]
ctrl Driving Pull Up Level......................[ Auto ]
clk Driving Pull Up Level.......................[ Auto ]
Data Driving Pull Down Level....................[ Auto ]
cmd Driving Pull Down Level.....................[ Auto ]
ctrl Driving Pull Down Level....................[ Auto ]
clk Driving Pull Down Level.....................[ Auto ]
******Channel B Timing Settings******
Static tRead Value [ 11 ] ...............[ Auto ]
tRD Phase0 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ]
tRD Phase1 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ]
tRD Phase2 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ]
tRD Phase3 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ]
tRD 2rd (Differnt Rank) [ 8 ] ................[ Auto ]
tWR 2wr (Differnt Rank) [ 8 ] ................[ Auto ]
tWR 2rd (Differnt Rank) [ 7 ] ................[ Auto ]
tRD 2wr (Same/Difft Rank) [ 9 ] ................[ Auto ]
Dimm 1 Clock Skew Control.......................[ Auto ]
Dimm 2 Clock Skew Control.......................[ Auto ]
DDR Write Training..............................[ Auto ]
******Channel B Driving Settings******
Drive Strength Profile..........................[ Auto ]
Data Driving Pull Up Level......................[ Auto ]
cmd Driving Pull Up Level.......................[ Auto ]
ctrl Driving Pull Up Level......................[ Auto ]
clk Driving Pull Up Level.......................[ Auto ]
Data Driving Pull Down Level....................[ Auto ]
cmd Driving Pull Down Level.....................[ Auto ]
ctrl Driving Pull Down Level....................[ Auto ]
clk Driving Pull Down Level.....................[ Auto ]
******Motherboard Voltage Control******
Load-Line Calibration...........................[ Disabled ]
CPU Vcore [ 1.325 ]...................[ Auto ]
CPU Termination [ 1.200 ]...................[ Auto ]
CPU PLL [ 1.500 ]...................[ Auto ]
CPU Reference [ 0.760 ]...................[ Auto ]
MCH Core [ 1.100 ]...................[ Auto ]
MCH Reference [ 0.760 ]...................[ Auto ]
MCH/DRAM Refernce [ 0.900 ]...................[ Auto ]
ICH I/O [ 1.500 ]...................[ Auto ]
ICH Core [ 1.100 ]...................[ Auto ]
DRAM Voltage [ 1.800 ]...................[ Auto ]
DRAM Termination [ 0.900 ]...................[ Auto ]
Channel A Ref [ 0.900 ]...................[ Auto ]
Channel B Ref [ 0.900 ]...................[ Auto ]
******Advanced BIOS Features******
Limit CPUID Max to 3............................[ Enabled ]
No-Execute memory Protect.......................[ Disabled ]
CPU Enhance Halt (CIE)..........................[ Disabled ]
CPU Thermal Monitor.............................[ Enabled ]
CPU EIST Function...............................[ Disabled ]
Virtualization Technology.......................[ Enabled ]
At the moment as I said, everything is working fine, I ran PRIME for 10 hours and the temperature of the CPU did not go over 55C
Just wanting to see if I've configured it correctly and if I can push anything more out of it, I'm only using air cooling...
Thanks for your time
Dave
