Hi everyone,
I registered last week and have been itching to post for ages. I'm relatively new to overclocking and I've been fiddling with my system to see how hard I can push my E6750 for benchmarking. I'm not after a high 24/7 overclock; I really just want to get to 4GHz for benchmarking but so far everything I've tried hasn't worked.
With the CPU at 3.9GHz my BIOS settings are as follows:
FSB: 488MHz
CPU Vcore: 1.425
MCH overvoltage: +0.075
Memory clock: 976MHz
Memory timings: 5-5-5-15
Memory voltage: 2.1
These settings are definitley not orthos-stable, but all I wanted was to run super pi, which I managed without any trouble.
I'm still using the stock intel cooler and my idle temps are approaching 50C; but it's the chipset I'm most concerned about because for one thing I have no way of reading its temp and I don't know how much extra voltage is safe.
The following settings are the hardest I've pushed my system so far, and at these settings my system automatically reboots/resets the FSB to 333MHz shortly after it posts (sometimes before). I made it to the desktop once, for all of one second.
FSB: 501MHz
CPU Vcore: 1.5v
MCH overvoltage: +0.225
Memory clock: 1002MHz
Memory timings: 5-5-5-15
Memory voltage: 2.1
Questions:
1) Have I hit an FSB wall below 500MHz? or
2) Might my CPU need more than 1.5v to reach 4GHz? or
3) Does my chipset need more voltage? or
4) Does my memory need more voltage?
Thanks in advance for your help, and any suggestions would be much appreciated.
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