Help me get it a bit higher?
Specs:
E6600 L628A235 + Scythe Infinity
Asus P5B vanilla, bought before 9/14.. isn't there a newer version or something?
2x 1GB Corsair XMS DDR2-800 5-5-5-12
Radeon X300 (lol)
Enermax Liberty 500w
This thing is rock solid at 400x8 with 1.485v vcore (CMOS setting) / 1.45v FSB at ~45C/55C idle/load (Core Temp). If I crank the vcore up to 1.55, I can do 415 FSB stable. Any higher than that, Orthos fails in a minute or so; the highest has been booting at 430 FSB / 1.6v, I'm afraid to raise the voltage any higher.
At 9x multi, I seem to hit a wall at 370ish FSB and have heard that just skipping up to 400+ works, but at 400x9 / 1.6v it restarts when loading Windows.
So, a few questions:
Maybe I'm a noob that's out of the loop on these newfangled motherboards, but where's the memory divider/ratio setting? I see the DRAM speed setting but the ratios are greater than 1.. is there no way to set the memory to work at a lower ratio? This would eliminate any RAM bottleneck when going over 400 FSB.
When setting my vcore above say 1.5, CPU-Z reports my voltage as being around 1.23, then it shoots up to the 1.4s when on load. When at 1.485v for 400x8, CPU-Z's reading hovers around 1.42 and goes down to 1.38ish, which is "normal" since this board has a well known vdroop when on load. But even more strange, is that when setting the vcore to 1.6, CPU-Z reads the voltage in the 1.2's constantly, load or not. Is CPU-Z misreading the voltages or is the CMOS simply not saving the setting in the BIOS when I reboot? What should I trust for a reading? I wonder if this is keeping me from getting a stable higher OC.
Last question, safest long-term voltage for these Conroes? I'm sure this has been asked a lot before, but I've never seen a clear answer. I'm a bit weary of electromigration, it's a prob with with Northwoods and those are nearly twice the transistor size.
Let me state that in the CMOS I've disabled all the unnecessary stuff that can hinder an OC, such as spread spectrum, legacy USB, legacy ports/onboard audio, vanderpool tech, and that cool'n'quiet equivalent.
Thanks ahead.
Specs:
E6600 L628A235 + Scythe Infinity
Asus P5B vanilla, bought before 9/14.. isn't there a newer version or something?
2x 1GB Corsair XMS DDR2-800 5-5-5-12
Radeon X300 (lol)
Enermax Liberty 500w
This thing is rock solid at 400x8 with 1.485v vcore (CMOS setting) / 1.45v FSB at ~45C/55C idle/load (Core Temp). If I crank the vcore up to 1.55, I can do 415 FSB stable. Any higher than that, Orthos fails in a minute or so; the highest has been booting at 430 FSB / 1.6v, I'm afraid to raise the voltage any higher.
At 9x multi, I seem to hit a wall at 370ish FSB and have heard that just skipping up to 400+ works, but at 400x9 / 1.6v it restarts when loading Windows.
So, a few questions:
Maybe I'm a noob that's out of the loop on these newfangled motherboards, but where's the memory divider/ratio setting? I see the DRAM speed setting but the ratios are greater than 1.. is there no way to set the memory to work at a lower ratio? This would eliminate any RAM bottleneck when going over 400 FSB.
When setting my vcore above say 1.5, CPU-Z reports my voltage as being around 1.23, then it shoots up to the 1.4s when on load. When at 1.485v for 400x8, CPU-Z's reading hovers around 1.42 and goes down to 1.38ish, which is "normal" since this board has a well known vdroop when on load. But even more strange, is that when setting the vcore to 1.6, CPU-Z reads the voltage in the 1.2's constantly, load or not. Is CPU-Z misreading the voltages or is the CMOS simply not saving the setting in the BIOS when I reboot? What should I trust for a reading? I wonder if this is keeping me from getting a stable higher OC.
Last question, safest long-term voltage for these Conroes? I'm sure this has been asked a lot before, but I've never seen a clear answer. I'm a bit weary of electromigration, it's a prob with with Northwoods and those are nearly twice the transistor size.
Let me state that in the CMOS I've disabled all the unnecessary stuff that can hinder an OC, such as spread spectrum, legacy USB, legacy ports/onboard audio, vanderpool tech, and that cool'n'quiet equivalent.
Thanks ahead.
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