Have e6600 @2.9Ghz/329MHz FSB

[fritzfield]

On my Foxconn P35A mobo, my e6600 is running at 2.96GHZ/329MHz FSB on stock Intel HSF w/ vcore at 1.216v. Stable on Prime95 and OCCT. Any suggestions to get it to 333 FSB without a different cooling solution. What would be an acceptable vcore to try without frying the CPU?

 

[khurios2000]

what are the temps on load prime95?

 

[fritzfield]

58 degrees Celsius. That's 20 degrees higher than without the stress test running.

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: fritzfield
Any suggestions to get it to 333 FSB without a different cooling solution.

Raise your Vcore.

 

[fritzfield]

By how much should I raise it? What would be the cut-off Voltage before frying the chip?

 

[n7]

Way more than what you have it at.

On your Intel box it says up to 1.35V, no?

I'd say 1.45V is as high as i'd want to run for long periods of time.

Now you can't do that with your stock cooling, but 1.216v is nothing.

Bump it up one notch; that should get you your desired 3 GHz.

 

[fritzfield]

I increased voltage to 1.32v. FSB is now 333 so I'm at 3.0GHZ. Idle temp is 46C and Prime 95 temp is 75C. Is this within acceptable limits? Windows is running normally and PCIe is 100 and memory is at 800, both the normal specs.

 

[cubeless]

run cpuz and see what your memory is really at...

and some chips just don't make it to the peak of everest... i got a 4500 that will only do 3ghz no matter what... it's brother does 3.2 with just a little more voltage than stock...

and 75c is getting kind of warm...

 

[gramboh]

I ran mine at 400x8=3.2GHz for about 14 months then switched to 367x9=3.3GHz since I couldn't run 4 sticks of ram at 400MHz. I run VCore 1.45, idle is about 40 on the CPU and it gets up around 65 I think on stress test, haven't tested/cleaned it out in a while. I wouldn't go much higher than 1.45v unless you have high end cooling.