Hi guys, I've been reading through the OC'ing guide, on here and a couple of other sites...I've got a fair idea, and I tired a few values and so far things are still working (lol) but I want to ask about specific values and voltages if I can improve on, I'm not totally sure if I can push a little more or should hold back on some.
Hardware; Q6600, Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R, Crucial Ballistix PC2-6400 DDR2
I don't want too high of a over clock, around 2.8 is fine for now, set things up in the bios as so:
CPU clock ratio: 7
SPD: 2.0
CPU host frequency: 400
PCI express frequency: 100 to 102?
also manually changed the ram timings to 4-4-4-12
all the voltages I've left on auto, but when i checked the health status in the bios, DDR volate was showing up as fail, and in everest was reading 2.24 (the ram is rated at 2.2v) - so I've set +0.3 now its 2.14v (can i get rid of that 0.04? so its 2.2v) but I've noticed when i stress the memory this 0.04 goes and the ram is around 2.10/11v
is it worth me upping the other voltages (PCI-E, FSB, MCH) by +0.1v? i read on another site it can help with stability. I try to over clock the GPU, but I can't go up by much I get crashes. wondering if upping the PCI voltage a value would help that.
not sure about how much voltage I should apply to the CPU for around the speed I want, or just leave it on auto) don't want too much heat.
sorry about the many questions, any help is much appreciated, as I'm new to this!