Quote Originally Posted by sei-aidyn View Post
Hey all... I've been looking to OC my set up since i've put this system together. I'm a total n00b at this and would really appreciate some help in figuring this whole thing out. I would like to get this over 3.33Ghz if possible.

The furthest I've gotten so far is pretty much setting up the ram timings and voltage, otherwise I've pretty much gotten lost in the rest of the setup.

E6750 @ 2.66Ghz - WinXP Pro SP2
ASUS P5K-E/WIFI-AP Motherboard Bios vers. 1006
OCZ PC6400 Reaper Edition HPC 4GB KIT 4-4-4-15 2.1/2.2
ASUS Radeon HD 3850 512MB GDDR3
Ultra 600w Modular PSU
ThermalRight Ultima90 w/ Scythe 120MM
Samsung SyncMaster 225BW


Start with your ram timings at 4-4-4-12, ddr2 works best when that last number tRAS (cycle time) is the sum of the first three. I have the 2gig version
of that mem and I keep my voltages at 2.2 or 2.3, no problems since the OCZ's have overvoltage protection.

Then enable load-line calibration (keeps vdrop/vdroop at a minimum).
Disable all the Spread Spectrum stuff.
Lock your PCIe at 100mhz
set your "FSB Strap" to 400 (this will allow your mem divider to be 1:1)
Disable C1E/EIST junk.

Ok now your reddy to start oc'ing.

Try to find your max OC at stock vcore. Just up your FSB 10 Mhz at a time,
boot windows and run prime95 for a bit to see if it's stable, if so bump up FSB
10 more and try again.

If you find your max before you hit the 3.33 that you want the next thing to do is to start bumping up your CPU vcore just a steps at a time.


I would think you should be able to reach the 3.33 with that CPU with little
effort, but thats not always the case, so Good Luck .

Oh, and make shure you watch the CPU temps, especially when you start raising the CPU vcore. I use a little prog call "Core Temp".