C2D Overclocking Guide for Beginners

[Clunk]

I have the PDF manual in front of me, and it shows RAID 0,1,5,10.

Download it from here.

Open the PDF, do a search for raid 10. Sorted

[Clunk]

Originally Posted by renethx

In my impression, you have not yet actually confirmed the support of RAID 10/5 by looking into the RAID option ROM, haven't you? I strongly urge you to do so if you haven't before making a decisive statement.

Who are you? the RAID police?

[Supershanks]

Well a 1st I disagree with clunk

Who are you? the RAID police?

No after

I just wanted to make things correct whether they are the ratio or RAID. But apparently I asked a wrong person. Sorry for your ignorance.

just some saddo.with no manners

can't understand to be honest why i did this:-

guess it may help others.

[Clunk]

Originally Posted by renethx

So you can select

• Intel Matrix Storage Manager option ROM > Create RAID Volume > RAID Level: RAID 5

right? Then why does ASUS mention only RAID 0 & 1 in the P5K Deluxe product page and the PDF manual? Any idea?

As shown below, it DOES mention it in the PDF.

Originally Posted by Clunk

I have the PDF manual in front of me, and it shows RAID 0,1,5,10.

Download it from here.

Open the PDF, do a search for raid 10. Sorted

Originally Posted by renethx

Yeah, I know that there are contradictory descriptions about RAID in the PDF manual.

In my impression, you have not yet actually confirmed the support of RAID 10/5 by looking into the RAID option ROM, haven't you? I strongly urge you to do so if you haven't before making a decisive statement.

Ummm, you said it didnt mention it in the PDF, I was merely letting you know that it does.

Originally Posted by Clunk

Who are you? the RAID police?

This was meant to be a light hearted rebuffal of your judgemental statement. Clearly we share a sense of humour, we have to, because unfortunately, you dont have one.

Originally Posted by renethx

I just wanted to make things correct whether they are the ratio or RAID. But apparently I asked a wrong person. Sorry for your ignorance.

Thats right, I am the most ignorant and unhelpful person that you are likely to encounter, ask anyone.

[cletus_cassidy]

I just finished assembling my new PC (e6600 on a P5B Deluxe WiFi) and I wanted to test it at stock cooling/speeds for stability and heat statistics before I begin overclocking. I ran Orthos overnight and the average temp. under load was between 55-58 degrees. This temps seemed pretty high for stock cooling at stock speeds. Should I be worried before I begin overclocking? I’m going to be putting watercooling in next week sometime, but I’m a bit worried about my processor now…

[Clunk]

With the stock cooler, that looks to be just above average.

It could be as simple as one of the plastic lugs not being in properly on the heatsink.

Dont worry. Take it off, clean the old thermal goop off, and apply some new stuff and reseat the cooler.

[cletus_cassidy]

Thanks. Hopefully those temps. will really decrease once I get the water-cooling installing, but I wanted to have a base-line to see how much it would help.

Do you have a suggestion for a good benchmarking program that I can to see how much overclocking speeds up my machine?

[Clunk]

There are loads of synthetic benchmarking programs, but the best test is to run something that you use all the time and see if there is a difference.

For the benchmarks, try sandra, 3dmark06 for starters.

[cletus_cassidy]

Do you have any idea why my CPU-Z would show my core speed at 1600 MHz and my multipler at 6 when I have an e6600? Speedstep is disabled in my BIOS.

[Pyr0]

do you have C1 disabled as well?

try setting your power scheme to always on

[Jud666]

Ive also got a question about ram timings, is it better to sacrifice some frequency to acheive a 1:1 ratio? Seeing as i cant get the optimum FSB value for 1:1 fsb:dram?

So im currently at 440mhz with 533mhz ram, good or bad O.o?

[Clunk]

Is it the system from the other thread or the one in your "my system"? If its the latter, you might be better off starting a thread about it, youll get more specific answers as this is a c2d overclocking thread

[Jud666]

ah yes silly me, ill leave my caveman Pentium d out of this..

[Dorza]

Bought a new system last week (see left) and I've had a tinker. Thanks for the guide clunk, it is very well explained.



I could probably go a bit higher if I fiddled more with the Memory Timings but I can't be arsed at the moment . By the way is the Tjunction temp in CoreTemp normal? It stays at a constant temp of 85 degrees.

[Clunk]

Looking good that mate, glad you found it useful

[abrasion]

I thought memory dividers let you run the memory SLOWER when you have a high FSB to reduce overclocking the ram?!?!?!!?

"If you haven't used a divider before on a C2D board, there isn't much to it really, on Intel chipsets, they only go upwards, in other words, they will only let you run your RAM faster than the CPU."

WTF?
So a 500FSB for an extreme overclock, the dividers are useless? and if you used them you'd need EVEN FASTER ram?

ugh!