E6600@3.6 on 1.4125 Vcore Fails Orthos in Less than 5 Seconds

[nealh]

Originally posted by: CurseTheSky
Ok, here's a quick guide to overclocking. Just enough to get you in trouble:

DISCLAIMER - overclocking too much (raising voltages too high, leaving temperatures too high, etc.) can DAMAGE and DESTROY your system. Be careful.

Voltage is your friend, up to a certain point. More voltage gives components more headroom for overclocking. Generally, Core 2 Duo processors can stand somewhere around 1.55 volts safely - however, most people (myself included) prefer to keep it below 1.5, or 1.45 if possible. Other voltages (such as memory, FSB, etc.) can allow other components to overclock higher as well, but there is always the risk of burning them out.

Why is this the safe limit ..because it equals 10, 15, 20% over stock vcore

The safe vcore has always been a hot topic of concern..but I have not seen anyone really give a reasonable value and why with C2D..these chips can run hot and are safe to 85C

I am not currently overclocking a C2D but I have one waiting for a good mobo....so I am more interested in learning why here...

thanks

 

[nyker96]

Yes I do believe you need higher vcore. But I think you need to get better cooling though.

 

[CyC]

up your vCore vMCH and vICH , lock pci clock and pci express freq, and disable any voltage/thermal monitoring options in your bios

heres some help

http://xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=115217

 

[cmdrdredd]

Originally posted by: nealh

Originally posted by: CurseTheSky
Ok, here's a quick guide to overclocking. Just enough to get you in trouble:

DISCLAIMER - overclocking too much (raising voltages too high, leaving temperatures too high, etc.) can DAMAGE and DESTROY your system. Be careful.

Voltage is your friend, up to a certain point. More voltage gives components more headroom for overclocking. Generally, Core 2 Duo processors can stand somewhere around 1.55 volts safely - however, most people (myself included) prefer to keep it below 1.5, or 1.45 if possible. Other voltages (such as memory, FSB, etc.) can allow other components to overclock higher as well, but there is always the risk of burning them out.

Why is this the safe limit ..because it equals 10, 15, 20% over stock vcore

The safe vcore has always been a hot topic of concern..but I have not seen anyone really give a reasonable value and why with C2D..these chips can run hot and are safe to 85C

I am not currently overclocking a C2D but I have one waiting for a good mobo....so I am more interested in learning why here...

thanks

Even if the chip won't burn up at 85c it will die with 1.6v in it.