E6550 Impressive Overclock

[RAW-Raptor22]

I was at my grandfathers house and decided to test the OC on the rig I built him. The specs are:

C2D E6550
Gigabyte P35 DS3L
MSI ATi Radeon 2600XT
2x1GB G.Skill DDR2 PC2-6400
Intel Stock Cooler XD

All OCs are completely stable:





<<<<< BEST OC

Max OC was 3605MHz/515MHz bus/2060FSB on 1.30V with the Intel Stock Cooler and Zalman STG1 thermal paste.

[Jowy Atreides]

I was at my grandfathers house and decided to test the OC on the rig I built him. The specs are:

C2D E6550
Gigabyte P35 DS3L
MSI ATi Radeon 2600XT
2x1GB G.Skill DDR2 PC2-6400
Intel Stock Cooler XD

Max OC was 3605MHz/515MHz bus/2060FSB on 1.30V with the Intel Stock Cooler and Zalman STG1 thermal paste.

that is impressive for the e6550,
mine runs at only 3.5Ghz stable at max

[webwilli]

E6550 @ 3.600 MHz Prime

[RAW-Raptor22]

Nice man, I didnt have time to prime mine because I had to leave. I wouldve also done a SPi run and 3dmark06 but I couldnt do that either. With such low volts and the stock cooler, I would love to see how this chip would shine with my Zalman9700 and some real volts.

[TEDY]

great oc

what's your VID????

[RAW-Raptor22]

great oc

what's your VID????

VID?

[TEDY]

coretemp...VID.

how on earth you get so low temp with stock ???

[metro.cl]

It is a nice CPU but would call it impresive, here is where i maxed the FSB on my old E6550.

[irev210]

pretty good for retail

almost as good as my old ES (see sig) and metro's ES

[RAW-Raptor22]

Yeah, I would love to see what some extreme cooling would do. I couldnt really since i didnt pay for the rig (i only built it).

Thanks

[aoch88]

This is a better bang for buck than the E8400 for now I guess

[dertimaushh]

All OCs are completely stable:

I didnt have time to prime

Good results anyway.

[gundamit]

So what does your Grandfather think about you overclocking his rig? Can he tell the difference when he plays online shuffleboard?

[Leeghoofd]

This is a better bang for buck than the E8400 for now I guess

I would still love to pay the small premium to get the 9x as I would be pretty darn sure I would get 3.6 with way less FSB and even more without worrying about my mobo/ram limiting stuff...

[RAW-Raptor22]

So what does your Grandfather think about you overclocking his rig? Can he tell the difference when he plays online shuffleboard?

I just started doing it and he was watching me. He's pretty tech literate on the software side of things and I explained what I was doing as I went. When I got to 3605MHz he said he didn't want to 'push the envelope' and is was like 'winning money in a casino, then trying to go back and win more' so I didn't want to go against his wishes. I turned it down to 3GHz even and left it. He is a financial adviser so he runs a lot of financial programs along with Quicken 2008, Office 2007, Photoshop CS3 (hes a photo nerd), and Roxio 9 so in fact he could very well see an improvement with the extra 700MHz.

It is a pretty decent rig though right? Even maybe as a backup gaming rig, or poor mans gaming rig, 2600XT GDDR4 is a pretty capable little card.

It is a nice CPU but would call it impresive, here is where i maxed the FSB on my old E6550.

What cooling and voltage?

[metro.cl]

I just started doing it and he was watching me. He's pretty tech literate on the software side of things and I explained what I was doing as I went. When I got to 3605MHz he said he didn't want to 'push the envelope' and is was like 'winning money in a casino, then trying to go back and win more' so I didn't want to go against his wishes. I turned it down to 3GHz even and left it. He is a financial adviser so he runs a lot of financial programs along with Quicken 2008, Office 2007, Photoshop CS3 (hes a photo nerd), and Roxio 9 so in fact he could very well see an improvement with the extra 700MHz.

It is a pretty decent rig though right? Even maybe as a backup gaming rig, or poor mans gaming rig, 2600XT GDDR4 is a pretty capable little card.





What cooling and voltage?

1.3 Vcore and Air Cooling (cant remmember correctly but maybe Noctua 12CM Heatsink). The chip was impresiive but hit a FSB wall around this speed.

[RAW-Raptor22]

1.3 Vcore and Air Cooling (cant remmember correctly but maybe Noctua 12CM Heatsink). The chip was impresiive but hit a FSB wall around this speed.

Nice! Great clock for the low volts. I didnt find the real max for mine because I stopped early, but it probably was getting to a hight temperature point. I overclocked the e6550 in my other grandparents rig to 3337MHz (unstable) but that was with an MSI P35 Neo-F which has a known FSB wall at around that point, so I was screwed to begin with.

[Chri$ch]

E6550 @ 3.8Ghz (543FSB) primestable (1.36v)

[RAW-Raptor22]

E6550 @ 3.8Ghz (543FSB) primestable (1.36v)

Nice, what cooler? Thats good.

[bleachigo]

Man, i feeling a little jealous on everyone's OC on the e6550 .Mine just gets to about 3.255Ghz Orthos stable for 15 hours.Anything higher and i get BSOD's.Maybe it's my 430W PSU that i have but i doubt it.I think it's the Abit IP35 Pro that's the limiting factor.I also can't lower my RAM speed because of the board at this OC.Here's a pic of my failure as an OC'er .Anyways nice OC's from everyone .

[TEDY]

i don't get it stable even with 450x7....1.3975v in bios, don't want to go over 1.4v :P

[[LCN]Knowledge]

I can get 3.3GHZ with 1.36(real voltage), but anything higher is not Orthos stable. I guess it could be my Mobo MSI Neo2-FR, or maybe my 430W TT PSU Or... my memories dont want to go any higher despite i loose the timings and TRFC.

You all have great chips, nice overclock with low voltage

[Rol-Co]

Ahum.....mine

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=165215

[[LCN]Knowledge]

OMG Rol-Co, nice chip! and rams also. 4GHZ on air!! O_o

[RAW-Raptor22]

Ahum.....mine

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=165215

With an awesemo cooler...