OCing a DS3

[xyberfighter]

hi,

I'm having an issue OCing my Q6600 G0 on a 965P-DS3 rev 3.3... can anyone who successfully overclocked this board tell me your specific bios settings and your maximum stable OC?

Also, about the vdroop on the DS3, is the bios voltage accurate?

Thanks

 

[Markfw]

I oc'ed 8x400 memory 2.0, vcore up to 1.45, other motherboard up +0.2, and it was fine, but died 4 weeks later, a lot of stress I guess.

 

[xyberfighter]

lol, died 4 weeks later =O that's scary

 

[thilanliyan]

I was at 8x425 on my DS3 from August of last year to up until about a month ago.

My vcore was 1.3875, MCP +0.1, DDR + 0.1 and the rest of the voltages were set to normal. Ram timings were manually set to 5-5-5-12.

Never had any hiccups. I did upgrade the NB cooling though to the Thermalright HR-03.

 

[dflynchimp]

I was gonna say something more detailed about the motherboard, then realized that I have the P35 chipset version of the DS3(L)....

P965 chips are pretty good OC chips tho, and Q6600 G0 OCing behavior shouldn't change too much between Intel chipsets.

On the Vdroop, my experience while OCing was to set the voltage options to auto and let the mobo negotiate the ideal settings. my P35-DS3L works fine all the way to 3.2GHz. When using manual settings Vdroop seems to be around .06 volts (so setting a 1.35V in the BIOS gives me ~1.29V in CPU-Z). You should at least reach 3GHz (333x9, 375x8 or 428x7) with 1.4V in the BIOS (~1.35V after Vdroop).

Depending on what kind of cooling you use I'd say 3.2GHz should be fast enough. Going beyond probably would severely shorten your CPU lifespan

You should list your system specs (RAM, Cooling, etc)