C2D Overclocking Guide for Beginners

[RRRuss]

Thanks for this guide Clunk - I've recently built an E6600 based system, and have been looking at a novices guide to overclocking - this seems to be pitched perfectly at that level.

Thanks again - I'll let you know how I get on. I'll be happy with 3.00GHz though

[Agrippa]

Yeah, really excellent guide Clunk. I'll be sure to take notes before I clock my future E/Q6600 up to 3GHz. Haven't touched a BIOS since pre-DDR2 days....

[Clunk]

Glad you like it

If theres anything you want to see added, dont forget to ask.

If you find the info useful, please vote (top right), and you can Digg it, by clicking on the Digg button at the top of the page

[Agrippa]

Just gave you a star Clunk. Or was it 5? ****, I'm so bad with maths...

[Blood]

Gave you 5 stars.

[Clunk]

Thanks chaps

[RRRuss]

5*'s from me too

I have my E6600 running at 3.00GHz now (333FSB x 9) with my Geil memory on 666.

Idle temp is 27C!!

Now for the GPU.... I have manged 600/1800... let's see how much I can get

[mjb10000]

5 X's from me. Thanks Clunk! I've got my 6600 running happily at 3150 (350 x 9) - Not quite sure what my temps are as my AB9PRO 965 mobo seems to confuse temp monitoring software.

[RRRuss]

mjb10000, have you overclocked your GPU too?

I have the same GPU as you, would be interested to see what you can get out of your system. Have you tried 3D Mark 06?

I got:

2.8GHz/600-1800 - 9697 Marks
3.0GHz/650-1900 - 10324 Marks

Stupidly, I didn't try stock speeds...

[Agrippa]

Got a request Clunk, if you have the time and energy.

Any chance you could give brief descriptions of the memory setting other than the usual x-x-x-x ones? What they do and what values are safe to use perhaps? 5-5-5-15 and such is fine, I understand that, but the rest is Greek to me and I'd kind a like to get at least a slight grip on it.

[Clunk]

I'll do a seperate add on for slightly more advanced stuff. I wont add the ram stuff to this guide bacause it will just confuse the people that this is aimed at, if you see what I mean

The thing with the subtimings though, its different for most boards and ram. For most people, things run best when the motherboard defaults are used for DRAM Write Recovery Time, TRFC, TRRD, Rank Write To Read Delay, Read to Precharge Delay, Write to Precharge Delay.

Some ram modules seem to prefer haveing their own set of subtimings manually, I had some Corsair PC2-6400 sticks that wouldnt run stable in the P5B, unless I entered some really odd subtimings, and they were nothing like what Corsair recommended. Its just a case of finding out what works best for your ram and your board.

There are a few minor speed increases to be had, and I'll get to them in the next bit of the guide

[Agrippa]

Roger, I'll be looking forward to that one then. Got an approx. timeline at all? Of course I hope my 4 new 2GB modules will just work, so I won't really need the guide. :-)

[Clunk]

Wont take too long. Hows that for a time frame?

[Agrippa]

Can't ask for better than that mate! :-)

[krabbie]

hi all !!!

can anyone plz let me know if i can overclock
E4300, using an original INTEL G965RY mobo. ????
plz let me know that guys....

tnx in advance....

[Harkin]

Some ram modules seem to prefer haveing their own set of subtimings manually, I had some Corsair PC2-6400 sticks that wouldnt run stable in the P5B, unless I entered some really odd subtimings, and they were nothing like what Corsair recommended.

Great, I received my 2GiB of Corsair PC2-6400 today which Im gonna put in the P5B (waiting for cpu tom). So hopefully it works out fine without changing them sub-timings cos Im clueless there.