Help with Overclocking

[drawkcaB]

Hi,

I purchased a bunch of PC parts recently but I'm still waiting on my E6600 to come in and the way things are going I might be changing my plans for an E6400. My other parts (already bought and received) are:

Asus P5W DH Deluxe MB
OCZ Gold XTC PC2-5400 Memory
Seagate 7200.9 SATA II 160 GB HDD
Scythe Mine

I originally wanted to get the E6600 to match the X6800 in terms of clock speed, but I was wondering if it were possible to get 3.0 GHz using the E6400 instead. I understand the relation between CPU speed - FSB - Memory speed in a Conroe, and it seems to me that the best I can hope for is 2.66 GHz CPU speed. Is there anything I can do to get this higher (overclock ram, mem dividers, etc.) If anyone could explain how I'd get to that point it would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Baked]

Welcome to AT.

As far as RAM concern, OCZ RAM, especially the gold series, generally are not compatible w/ Asus mobos. But some people do get the pair to work.

Asus P5W isn't too bad a pair for E6600, but you might have to get some Corsair RAM if the OCZ RAM doesn't work out.

I don't have a Asus P5W, so I can't tell you the details on how to OC w/ this mobo. Might wanna search around for threads w/ people using the Asus P5W as their OC mobo.