overclocking GIGABYTE P35-DS4 + Intel E6750 @2.66GHz

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Hello. I've been running this for half a year with no problems but sometimes it resets to normal after restarts. Can i fix that? Also i wanted to check if it needs any more tweaks to improve and stabilize. Need some help with memory timings if someone knows whats up.

PC SPECS:

MB_____________________GIGABYTE P35-DS4 Rev. A2 (LPCIO - ITE IT8718)
CPU____________________Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 @ 2.66 ghz
SMBIOS__________________ 2.4
BIOS____________________ Award Software international Inc. F14 (Date 06/19/2009)
RAM____ ________________DDR2 - 2x 1GB Kingston HyperX (333mhz) + 1x 2GB kingston ( 333-400 mhz)
Graphics_________________ NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 ddr3 2gb
PSU____________________Antec TP3-550 550Watt

BIOS SETTINGS:

[SIZE="3"][B]Robust Graphics Booster_________________ [Fast]  ?

CPU Clock Ratio ________________________[8x] 

CPU Frequency _______________________3.20 GHz ( 400x8) 

CPU Host Clock Control________________[Enabled] 

CPU Host Frequency(Mhz)______________[400] 

PCI Express Frequency(Mhz)____________[100] 

C.I.A. 2_____________________________[Disabled]

 Performance Enhance________________[Standard] ?

 System Memory Multiplier____________SPD_[2.00] 

Memory Frequancy(Mhz)_____________667___800 

DRAM Timing Selectable_____________SPD__[Auto] ? 

*****Standard Timing Control******** 

CAS Latency Time___________________5___ ? 

DRAM RAS# to CAS# Delay___________5__ ? 

DRAM RAS# Precharge_______________5__ ? 

Precharge delay(tRAS)_______________15_ ? 

*********Advanced Timing Control********* 

ACT to ACT Delay(tRRD)______________3__Auto 

Rank Write To READ Delay____________3__Auto 

Write To Precharge Delay_____________5__Auto 

Refresh to ACT Delay________________44__Auto 

Read to Precharge Delay______________3__Auto 

Static tRead Value___________________8__Auto 

Static tRead Phase Adjust_____________0__Auto 

*************SYSTEM VOLTAGE NOT OPTIMIZED********* (blinking) 

System Voltage Control_______________[Manual] 

DDR2 OverVoltage Control_____________[Normal] ? 

PCI-E OverVoltage Control_____________[Normal] 

FSB OverVoltage Control_______________[Normal] ? (

G)MCH Overvoltage Control____________[Normal] ? 

Loadline Calibration___________________[Auto] ? 

CPU Voltage Control___________________[1.35000V] ? 

Normal CPU Vcore____________________1.35000V[/B][/SIZE]

 

[VirtualLarry]

Those settings look OK to me. Do you have any USB flash drives or USB storage drives / HDDs, or a MagicJack, plugged in when you restart? Those things will cause it to reset to default clocks when rebooting. It's a Gigabyte bug in their 775 board BIOSes.

 

[inkbleed]

Those settings look OK to me. Do you have any USB flash drives or USB storage drives / HDDs, or a MagicJack, plugged in when you restart? Those things will cause it to reset to default clocks when rebooting. It's a Gigabyte bug in their 775 board BIOSes.

No i don't. I have my SATA2 hdds set to AHCI from bios tho. They appear as removable devices on my windows. I don't suppose it's a problem.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Maybe the board is just getting old? I ran my Q9300 rigs in GA-P35-DS3R v1.0 mobos for quite a few years, overclocked from 333FSB to 400FSB (2.5Ghz to 3.0Ghz - a mild OC, really), and eventually, it started doing hard-locking under distributed-computing load. I had to clock it back down to stock. (It's still OK at stock.)

 

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Maybe the board is just getting old? I ran my Q9300 rigs in GA-P35-DS3R v1.0 mobos for quite a few years, overclocked from 333FSB to 400FSB (2.5Ghz to 3.0Ghz - a mild OC, really), and eventually, it started doing hard-locking under distributed-computing load. I had to clock it back down to stock. (It's still OK at stock.)

Yep, the rig is 8 years old and it runs Dota2 at 80FPS 1080p and Fallout at 40-50. I will buy a new 1151 skylake cpu and a new MB so i'm just doing some testing

 

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I ran a E6600 for years with a 800MHz overclock. It would reset itself roughly once every 3 months. I never figured out why, I just learned to quickly set it back the way I wanted it.