I've had this motherboard for since last August and if you read my previous threads it took me countless weeks to get my e6400 to overclock properly to respectable levels. (3.4-3.5ghz on Arctic Cooler Freezer 7 Pro).
However, just recently, I got a nice christmas present in the form of the e6600 and was excited at how much I could get on a Week 31 e6600 since I've heard great things about the recent weeks not needing such high increases in voltages to reach certain overclocking results.
With that in mind, I started overclocking e6600 on the S3 motherboard after a week or so of burn-in with a newly bought Scythe Ninja (which lowered my temperatures instantly). But I ran into a problem I would have hoped to have avoided.
As some of you may know, my S3 motherboard strangely has a black hole in terms of FSB in that I cannot POST at all when the FSB set between 340mhz - 425mhz. Therefore, as I slowly moved my FSB from the stock 266mhz to the 340mhz, lo and behold, my system fails to post and reverts back to stock settings.
I tried all the way to 400mhz and just gave up because I knew at +400mhz x 9 I suspected I needed to put more voltage that I was comfortable with.
As a result, this is my dilemma. I am left with a board with FSB holes from 340mhz-425mhz, which would have been ok if I still had my e6400, since I was able to push my 10th Anniversary Crucial Memory to +425mhz x 8 on the e6400. However, on a the e6600, most of the overclocks have an FSB of 350mhz-400mhz for an overclock of around 3.6ghz with 1.4-1.5v on the vcore, which just happens to be the bloody FSB holes my S3 motherboard has.
GAh, someone help me. Is my best option just to sell this motherboard and buy another one such as the DS3 or the Asus P5B deluxe because this is getting frustrating. It can't be the memory and I'm pretty sure it's not the processor (unless I got very unlucky).
Feedback and help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks..!!
EDIT: Should I take the multiplier down a notch on my e6600 and run it on xxxmhz x 8 instead of setting it at x9 and try to pump up the FSB to 425? Is it the same performance between these two setups? :
Setup 1: 450x8 = 3.6ghz OC on e6600
Setup 2: 400x9 = 3.6ghz OC on the same e6600
I would actually test this out to see whether it made any noticeable performance difference but then again this stupid motherboard has its respective FSB holes. If anyone could give it a shot, it'd be helpful because if there was no difference at all I guess I'd be satisfied with taking the multipler down a notch and take advantage of the incredible overclocking potential of my memory. I was actually able to run this memory for 8 hours on Memtest with no errors on another setup and overclock an e6300 past 3.6ghz terroritory (in an attempt to convince a friend select D9 memory is well worth the price).
However, just recently, I got a nice christmas present in the form of the e6600 and was excited at how much I could get on a Week 31 e6600 since I've heard great things about the recent weeks not needing such high increases in voltages to reach certain overclocking results.
With that in mind, I started overclocking e6600 on the S3 motherboard after a week or so of burn-in with a newly bought Scythe Ninja (which lowered my temperatures instantly). But I ran into a problem I would have hoped to have avoided.
As some of you may know, my S3 motherboard strangely has a black hole in terms of FSB in that I cannot POST at all when the FSB set between 340mhz - 425mhz. Therefore, as I slowly moved my FSB from the stock 266mhz to the 340mhz, lo and behold, my system fails to post and reverts back to stock settings.
I tried all the way to 400mhz and just gave up because I knew at +400mhz x 9 I suspected I needed to put more voltage that I was comfortable with.
As a result, this is my dilemma. I am left with a board with FSB holes from 340mhz-425mhz, which would have been ok if I still had my e6400, since I was able to push my 10th Anniversary Crucial Memory to +425mhz x 8 on the e6400. However, on a the e6600, most of the overclocks have an FSB of 350mhz-400mhz for an overclock of around 3.6ghz with 1.4-1.5v on the vcore, which just happens to be the bloody FSB holes my S3 motherboard has.
GAh, someone help me. Is my best option just to sell this motherboard and buy another one such as the DS3 or the Asus P5B deluxe because this is getting frustrating. It can't be the memory and I'm pretty sure it's not the processor (unless I got very unlucky).
Feedback and help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks..!!
EDIT: Should I take the multiplier down a notch on my e6600 and run it on xxxmhz x 8 instead of setting it at x9 and try to pump up the FSB to 425? Is it the same performance between these two setups? :
Setup 1: 450x8 = 3.6ghz OC on e6600
Setup 2: 400x9 = 3.6ghz OC on the same e6600
I would actually test this out to see whether it made any noticeable performance difference but then again this stupid motherboard has its respective FSB holes. If anyone could give it a shot, it'd be helpful because if there was no difference at all I guess I'd be satisfied with taking the multipler down a notch and take advantage of the incredible overclocking potential of my memory. I was actually able to run this memory for 8 hours on Memtest with no errors on another setup and overclock an e6300 past 3.6ghz terroritory (in an attempt to convince a friend select D9 memory is well worth the price).
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