E6400 only getting to 2.52 ghz?

[big4x4]

Running @ 320 x 8 on my gigabyte s3. Any higher it will not boot into windows. I have some Patriot ddr 667 running a dividier so it is running at less than it is rated. What am I missing here?

 

[theteamaqua]

increase vcore, increase vmch in corease vPCI-E , vdimm ...

 

[Thor86]

If you want to find your max cpu oc, then you should use try and relax your memory timings to 5-5-5 and possibly use a divider.

As previous poster stated, once you start failing your OCs from default voltages, start raising them slowly until stable.

 

[LRguy]

Originally posted by: big4x4
Running @ 320 x 8 on my gigabyte s3. Any higher it will not boot into windows. I have some Patriot ddr 667 running a dividier so it is running at less than it is rated. What am I missing here?

I had the S3 board too before it got fried. Check your divider settings, make sure you set it right. And I also have the same ram and CPU:Q Make sure your divider is set to 2:2. That's the lowest setting you can set it. That patriot ram is really good, you can get it up to 420MHZ.

 

[Elfear]

I have the same Patriot ram (LLK right?) and it goes to 440MHz before my board runs out of steam. That's at 5-4-4-12 timings. I'm not familiar with the S3. Is it anywhere as good at ocing as the D3?

 

[LRguy]

The S3 and DS3 are almost identical. The DS3 has solid caps that will give it a longer life, I think 4 or 5 years plus and they have different ethernet controllers. Other than that they are the same and even overclock the same.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Skip 320-399fsb and go right to 400Mhz FSb and try that.