BeerzGod wrote:
If anyone can share some step-by-step information on how to overclock a cpu safely then feel free to explain. After looking at countless forums on the subject I've been unable to find one specifically explaining how to overclock a cpu with the hardware I have, or that that explains indepth what I should do. Maybe I'm not looking hard enough, I'm not sure, but I trust the knowledge of some of the people in this forum better than I do others. Any help would be appreciated, otherwise I'll just keep searching around.
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe Processor 2.4GHz, 1066FSB, LGA775, 4MB
Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400C4 2GB Kit DDR2-800 XMS2-6400 with default timings of 4-4-4-12 and a voltage of 2.1V
Asus P5N32-E SLI nForce 680i SLI Socket 775 1333MHz DDR2-800
On a side-note I ended up going with RivaTuner and was able to juice up the performance in my 8800 GTS by 32%, running with a max load at 43-45C. Many thanks for the votes.
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here. Overclocking on that board is simple
set you ram to unlinked and 800MHz
disable speedstep
set all the voltages to their default values (not auto)
ramp up the fsb by 20MHz, test for stability
repeat until you are happy or the CPU become unstable. Ramp the voltage 1 notch
at some point, no matter how much more voltage you put in the CPU won't go higher. Drop the multi and see if you can increase the FSB, if you can't you'll have to up the northbridge voltage (the northbridge cooling on the P5N32e-SLI is kinda bad, add a fan if possible). If you do you're at the max you chip can do before you need some extreme volts/cooling.
Setting VTT to something high (1.55) helps with clocking and apparently has no effect on temps. You can always lower it once you've reached the speed you want
you can try to enable speedstep when you're done, on some PCs it still works great (like on mine), for others it causes loads of problems