Average e6600 Overclocks?

[Theta]

I've had my e6600 ES B1 chip for about a month now, and have been pushing it slowly.

So far, I have 100% stability at 3600MHz @ 1.5v. FSB = 400.

Any higher, and it starts getting flaky. I tested the FSB on my P5WDH board using the 8x multi, and it scaled to around 435 at 1.65v MCH.

Should I be able to get 3800 out of this B1 @ 1.5v-1.6v on a TTBT with a Delta? My temps are great, but it feels like I'm missing more overclock.

What's the average you guys are seeing on the B1 e6600's? Most I see are at 3800-4000MHz on good air or water.

Should I be seeing around there, or just assume that my chip is really only good for ~3600MHz?

[ocZZZ]

That seems to be about the avg fsb for that motherboard

I've had my e6600 ES B1 chip for about a month now, and have been pushing it slowly.

So far, I have 100% stability at 3600MHz @ 1.5v. FSB = 400.

Any higher, and it starts getting flaky. I tested the FSB on my P5WDH board using the 8x multi, and it scaled to around 435 at 1.65v MCH.

Should I be able to get 3800 out of this B1 @ 1.5v-1.6v on a TTBT with a Delta? My temps are great, but it feels like I'm missing more overclock.

What's the average you guys are seeing on the B1 e6600's? Most I see are at 3800-4000MHz on good air or water.

Should I be seeing around there, or just assume that my chip is really only good for ~3600MHz?

[kurg]

Related qustion - I'm into building a silent (or near) PC with an E6600. This means I don't want to mess with voltage because it will require louder cooling.

So what are people seeing with _stock_ voltage on the E6600? If I can get up to maybe 360 FSB I'll be quite happy, and I'll be content with 350 or so. Are these doable at stock voltage on E6600?

[GoldenTiger]

By "average", do you mean with an E6600, or with ANY Conroe? I was really hoping to hit 420+ with my E6400 (8x multi) .

[[XC] hipno650]

you should see 3.2ghz easy without touching the volts!!!

[Shpoon]

Keep the volts down, alot of people said cooling the chipset REALLY helps to increase fsb.

[Theta]

As stated, the chipset is FINE until around 435 FSB.

I'm looking for ES owners with e6600's to chime in on their average clocks, voltages, etc.

[uOpt]

I also observed that for Conroe there is a bigger challenge of making a "pretty-solid" overclock actually dual-prime stable.

I ran a lot of benchmarks just fine, and many of those checked actual computed results, on Conroe clocks that later turned out to reliably fail a 36 hour dual-mprime test.

So it's really a question of what you expect.

For r5 E6600s you seem to be able to do 3.6 at medium volts bench-stable and medium-high volts mprime-stable and have room to mess around up to 3.9 GHz depending on how many volts you want to pump in.

Also keep in mind that such a CPU at 3600-3900 at 1.5 V takes up insane amounts of power, much more than AMD64 dual-cores around 2.7-2.9 GHz.

[Theta]

Also keep in mind that such a CPU at 3600-3900 at 1.5 V takes up insane amounts of power, much more than AMD64 dual-cores around 2.7-2.9 GHz.

What kind of power levels are we talking?

[Devious]

Duel prime stable 3.8Ghz 1.465v




Seems reasonably stable at 4.0Ghz 1.56v





Though its not game stable at the above clocks/voltages as i mentioned here though i think its the Asus at fault.

[ocZZZ]

nice

[uOpt]

What kind of power levels are we talking?

280+ Watts at 3.6 GHz , 340+ Watts at 3.9 GHz/1.6V.

AMD64s at 2500 MHz hang around 180 Watts, 220 Watts 2700 MHz, 260 at max 2.8-2.9 depending on what the CPU does.

That is naked system with one harddrive and a 4 MB PCI card, measured with powermeter at A/C outlet. The Conroe system probably take relatively more than what the number above imply because it drives the PSU into it utilization zone where efficiency increases drastically.

[ruffz]

Just messed around with my new E6600 (retail) and it had no problem hitting 3.2ghz at stock voltage. This chip rocks.

[Sanborn]

Just messed around with my new E6600 (retail) and it had no problem hitting 3.2ghz at stock voltage. This chip rocks.

Thats very good news. Are you keeping it at 3.2 stock for a while ? I want to see if it stays stable without having to change vcore for you.

[Burdman]

Just messed around with my new E6600 (retail) and it had no problem hitting 3.2ghz at stock voltage. This chip rocks.

Great news for me, I'm hopeing for around 3.2-3.4ghz stock-low volts, and that sounds great for the retail esp.!

[realsmasher]

ruffz please tell us what board, and if you did any mods to it or had to change bios.

thanks !

[ruffz]

Thats very good news. Are you keeping it at 3.2 stock for a while ? I want to see if it stays stable without having to change vcore for you.

It got a little unstable after a bit, so I clocked it down to about 3.0 and it's solid as a rock right now.

[ruffz]

ruffz please tell us what board, and if you did any mods to it or had to change bios.

thanks !

Asus P5W DH Deluxe, bios 0701. No mods at all.

[GOESA]

Mine is like in my signature, these CPU's get hot about 62-65c with ambient of 32-35c with my Ninja, I hope to clock some more when I get to a cooler place

/Grau

[Theta]

Please stop hijacking the thread, talking about stock volts, etc.

This thread is for the following ONLY:

Owners of ES Stepping B1 C2Ds, overclocking at 1.5v or better.

I would like to find out what the averages of B1 ES CHIPS ONLY is so far, to further push my 3600MHz farther.

I could care less about stock voltage, retail chips, etc. I am trying to determine the cause of stability issues by asking other similar users about their experiences.

Thank you.

[Theta]

Mine is like in my signature, these CPU's get hot about 62-65c with ambient of 32-35c with my Ninja, I hope to clock some more when I get to a cooler place

/Grau

That is my theory right now. Most of these guys running 3800-4000 are on water. Maybe even our nice air setups just aren't enough.

[GOESA]

Exactly, I can't get my system stable at anything above 3400mhz at the moment. But thats also a decent overclock, I can run 3dmark @ 3600mhz and Pi at that stable but that's it.
Is it even healthy to have a 65nm running 60c ?

/Grau

[realsmasher]

intel says 90° 24/7 is no problem for dothan(90nm) so 60° won't be for conroe.