In case anyone else was following this, I asked before what everyone though might be better (I did come up with my own answer):
4-4-4-12 @ 800MHz, 2.20V
5-5-5-12 @ 891MHz, 2.20V
On Patriot 5600+ (700MHz) RAM... That seems like a good overclock for some older RAM. I'm happy. 🙂
I ended up playing with the FSB speed too in order to see what I could get out of the CPU without bumping Vcore, since the processor is 3 days old. I can get my E6600 (2.4GHz) to E6700 speed (2.7GHz), but the computer automatically power-cycles after a few minutes of playing Quake 4 if I go for 3.0GHz. I backed off the timing on the RAM so I know it's the CPU. At 900MHz I could not get any timings to work error-free, but the Memtest86 showed no errors at 800MHz. I used Quake 4 in this instance to tax the CPU because it's on of the few games to use dual cores, and it's more fun than running Prime95 for example. 🙂
891MHz on the RAM is apparently right at the edge. For now I've settled on 4-4-4-12 @ 800MHz, 2.20V for the RAM and 300MHz FSB instead of 266MHz. I have my new video card overclocked slightly too; so I did get everything to work. After a few weeks I'll bump Vcore a little and see what it can do with my Thermalright XP-120 cooler. Watching temps right now at idle, my mobo is at 32C and my CPU between 30-31C. (Room is 71F).
4-4-4-12 @ 800MHz, 2.20V
5-5-5-12 @ 891MHz, 2.20V
On Patriot 5600+ (700MHz) RAM... That seems like a good overclock for some older RAM. I'm happy. 🙂
I ended up playing with the FSB speed too in order to see what I could get out of the CPU without bumping Vcore, since the processor is 3 days old. I can get my E6600 (2.4GHz) to E6700 speed (2.7GHz), but the computer automatically power-cycles after a few minutes of playing Quake 4 if I go for 3.0GHz. I backed off the timing on the RAM so I know it's the CPU. At 900MHz I could not get any timings to work error-free, but the Memtest86 showed no errors at 800MHz. I used Quake 4 in this instance to tax the CPU because it's on of the few games to use dual cores, and it's more fun than running Prime95 for example. 🙂
891MHz on the RAM is apparently right at the edge. For now I've settled on 4-4-4-12 @ 800MHz, 2.20V for the RAM and 300MHz FSB instead of 266MHz. I have my new video card overclocked slightly too; so I did get everything to work. After a few weeks I'll bump Vcore a little and see what it can do with my Thermalright XP-120 cooler. Watching temps right now at idle, my mobo is at 32C and my CPU between 30-31C. (Room is 71F).
