P5B Deluxe: BIOS screens for maximum overclocking success

[evil-doer]

ok i need a bit of help here. i just bought my first intel in many many years and this overclocking seems a bit confusing with all the variables. first off heres what i bought.

p5b deluxe, newest bios installed
e6600
2x1gb kingston hyperx (khx6400d2llk2)
evga 8800 gts 640mb
antec sonata iii should be here next week.

without touching any voltages i tried 333x9 and 400x8 with the usual features turned on or off as per the guide here and other sites ive read. windows boots fine and runs for a while. but then a random program will hang, the window stops drawing itself, and if i try to kill the process it doesnt go away. and any other programs i try to start after that will not start. i also cannot shut down windows when its like this and i need to do a hard reset. doing a memtest with this overclock also gave errors, so i figured the ram needed more juice. i upped and upped it until i got to 2.3v and i didnt want to go any higher because that seemed high, and i still got programs freezing, altho after a longer period of time. so i figured i better start overvolting some other things. these settings are estimates because i dont want to reboot right now as im testing how stable it is (its been on overnight and its fine so far). the cpu is 1.3/1.4ish and fsb and nb are both at the first number thats purple.

so first ive gotta ask, that symptom of programs freezing like that, is that because of the memory only? or could it be the cpu as well? was i right in overvolting what i did? im really unsure of what i should do at this point.
thanks for any help.

[Hardass]

ok i need a bit of help here. i just bought my first intel in many many years and this overclocking seems a bit confusing with all the variables. first off heres what i bought.

p5b deluxe, newest bios installed
e6600
2x1gb kingston hyperx (khx6400d2llk2)
evga 8800 gts 640mb
antec sonata iii should be here next week.

without touching any voltages i tried 333x9 and 400x8 with the usual features turned on or off as per the guide here and other sites ive read. windows boots fine and runs for a while. but then a random program will hang, the window stops drawing itself, and if i try to kill the process it doesnt go away. and any other programs i try to start after that will not start. i also cannot shut down windows when its like this and i need to do a hard reset. doing a memtest with this overclock also gave errors, so i figured the ram needed more juice. i upped and upped it until i got to 2.3v and i didnt want to go any higher because that seemed high, and i still got programs freezing, altho after a longer period of time. so i figured i better start overvolting some other things. these settings are estimates because i dont want to reboot right now as im testing how stable it is (its been on overnight and its fine so far). the cpu is 1.3/1.4ish and fsb and nb are both at the first number thats purple.

so first ive gotta ask, that symptom of programs freezing like that, is that because of the memory only? or could it be the cpu as well? was i right in overvolting what i did? im really unsure of what i should do at this point.
thanks for any help.

You should list all your setting here, so we can try to help. What do you have ram freq set at? What psu are you using?

[evil-doer]

You should list all your setting here, so we can try to help. What do you have ram freq set at? What psu are you using?

i have a 460 watt enermax psu at the moment, but that 500 watt earthwatts one is coming in my antec sonata 3 case, probably monday/tuesday.
too lazy to write it all out so heres some pics. i made them b&w for readability. i think its finally stable at these settings. but id need to run my system for longer to really know.

[Wotanx]

Ive clocked my P5b deluxe to 3ghz idle temp is 37 and 50 whilst playing games

it is hitting 70 under loads using intel TAT and orthis

is this too hot ?

i had the chip clocked at 3.2 and it was the same temp my vcore is 1.35 although probe shows 1.32

[Wotanx]

Thanks for the reply


systems seems rock solid even though with the fluctuating voltage - i read up on the vdroop pencil mod but didnt quite get what i was supposed to do :P

im using an Artic Cooling Freezer pro 7 -

my paste is some old artic silver 3 i had knocking about

i know 70 is too high

but is 50 ish ok - cos it never goes above that when i play games only when i use TAT or Orthos

cant find anyone in the UK selling that cooler - can anyone recommend another ?


maybe i should change the paste too ?