Testing / comparing : Intel D975XBX2 / Asus P5B DX ***56K WARNING***

[raceghost]

FYI: Complete noob to overclocking...
Help: I have read through all 181 pages of this thread, and hav yet to see a full list of the test information and settings accordingly. I did find a post on one fo the first pages that the below references. A guy listed similiar hardware setup, and was successful on both the proc and the memory... though as you read below, I am missing some of the settings.

Steps I tried in parrallel to his...
I do not however understand the "Adjust the divider", I went thruogh all my memory options and it would not let me do a Divider setting...

Adjusted FSB to 333Mhz to Q6600 9x multiplier = 2.9998Ghz Set mine to 334 = 3.0Ghz
Downgraded the memory to 667Mhz for headroom. Adjustmed mine to state 667, as well as the reference frequency to 333mhzAdjusted the divider to 4:5 (FSB:Mem), which equates to 333/416Mhz,Not a clueequaling perfect 4/5 80% ratio. Thus, not only do I now have a chip at ~3Ghz (QUAD core, mind you), the DDR2 memories are running at 2 x 416Mhz which gives me a nice 32Mhz memory boost to total 832Mhz. The latencies are still 5-5-5-18 ; I don't feel a need to tinker any more with the settings--the current speeds are quite sufficient.

Mine was unstable, infact, didnt boot at all.
I have tried less settings as well.
I did however, not mess with the voltage, as per this other thread, didnt see where he changed his....

Anything to go on here?

More attempts:

Adjusted FSB Voltage overide to 1.275
MCH/ICH Voltage overide to 1.575
Host clock frequency to 312 x 9 - 2.8 GHZ
This is stable if I do not touch anything else, and run the memory settings at default...

However, at these settings my System Bus Frequency Override becomes 1248

If I attempt to dicker with memory timings at all, it crashes, and will not post...black screen.

I am runnning Q6600, XBX2(latest bios), XMS2 corsair 2GB 800mhz x 4 sticks.
The post above refernecing the other guys settings, he is running identical setup...
He speaks about the Memory Divider. I do not see where you can adjust the memory divider in the XBX2 Bios. Im not sure what math equation would surfice to get the equivelent. And yes, i found a calculater that does it for me, but does not tell me nor point me what and where to change stuff in the bios.

Edit: At this point, I can't even raise the voltage on the FSB Voltage override to attain any more out of the processor...WTF.

HELP?