E6600 and MSI P6N SLI Platinum overclock problems

[stargazerxc]

Hi,
I am new here, I am not sure should I put this topic here or overclock section, but I put it here anyway.

I recently bought a MSI P6N SLI Platinum. I want a good quality board with nice overclock ability and not too expensive. Seems MSI P6N SLI Platinum is what I need after read the review on this site.

The board works pretty nice except the overclock ability. I only reached 1440 FSB, result 3.2G on CPU, anything higher than that just won't post. I am not satisfied since my CPU is E6600 and i am using water cooling system here. I read the review on this site said it's easy to get over 1600 FSB with stock cooling. I used excalt voltage setting in the review, upgraded the bios to 1.22. Disabled CE1 and other spetum settings. Is there anything I missed or just my bad luck?

Any reply will be appreciated. Thanks

 

[Shimmishim]

not all chips are created equal. increase your vcore voltage a bit, that would be the first place to start.

 

[Avalon]

Definitely increase your voltage a little. If you're on watercooling, you should have some headroom still.

 

[ShadowdogKGB]

I have the same board except with an E4300. Here are my settings for a reference. Hope this helps.

D.O.T Disabled
EIST Disabled
System Clock Manual
FSB 1422
Memory 800
CPU Ratio 9

CPU Volt .1250
Mem Volt 2.10
NB Volt 1.25 [Default setting]
SB Volt 1.50 [Default setting]
FSB VTT Volt 4%
Spread Spectrum All disabled


CPU Feature All disabled (Pressing F4 in this screen reveals an additional option which should be set to disabled as well.)

Chipset feature All disabled.


A couple of things I've noticed. Any increase of the NB Voltage makes for instability. Increasing the FSB VTT Voltage above 6% causes instability. I'm able to take this E4300 to 3.3ghz and beyond.

 

[ectx]

What kind of memory sticks do your have. Make sure they are nto causing the problem at the FSB.