q6600 on abit ip35-3 oc question

[sjordan]

ok, I messed around a little and got my q6600 oc'ed to 3.0ghz by using the stock voltage and bumping my memory to 4-4-4-12 1.95volt (defaults to 1.8).

Anyway it seems stable, and once I get a new heatsink and fan (running stock now) I am going to try for more. I am a little confused on one thing with my motherboard. Is there a setting for PCI Clock Synchronization? I don't see that anywhere. Can someone point me to a guide on OC'ing with this board or share there settings (important settings to change).

 

[SerpentRoyal]

PCI/PCI-E are automatically locked. You can manually override the PCI-E frequency in BIOS (to overclock GPU).

Read my 1st post at Abit IP35-E review (MB forum). There's an overclocking guide at the bottom of the review. Key is to relax RAM timing with 1:1 memory divider, 2.0Vdimm, and 5-5-5-15-2T timing. Raise Vcore to 1.4 and bump up FSB in 5MHz increment. Once CPU is Orthos/memtest86 stable at the desired core speed, then use the memory divider and timing to overclock RAMs.

 

[sjordan]

and once again, thanks serpertroyal...I will read that guide asap

One odd thing I did notice was that everytime I turn on the computer or restart, the system turns on...then immediately shuts down...waits for the fans to stop completly the starts up normal. Is this a normal thing, or is this because of my power supply. I think it was you or someone else that mentioned the truepower 430 has some issues with my board.

 

[wittangamo]

The "double boot" is normal for the IP35-E and some other IP35 chipset boards. Abit has released a beta bios that eliminates it (except for the first boot after you change memory timings or clear the CMOS.)

If it doesn't bother you, you can ignore it. If it does, you can find the beta bios and flashing instructions here: http://forum.abit-usa.com/showthread.php?t=127743

I'm using the beta and have no problems with it.

 

[ArchAngel777]

I am using the Beta 13 BIOS as well. Seems to work just fine.