Trying to find OC settings for a friend

loki5667

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I don't know too much about oc'ing the quad core cpus and how the numbers work with the fsb and multipliers. He was telling me settings and the numbers are alien to me for some reason.

Was hoping someone could post up some bios setting so I can get him headed in the right direction with his overclock. When I was oc'ing on my p5b deluxe people were sharing screenshots or a listing of all the bios values, was hoping I could find something similar. Then I have something to work with as far as the fsb and voltages.

Also is his memory any good for oc'ing?

ASUS P5N-E SLI
ASUS EN8800GTS 640MB
INTEL Q6600 VERSION G0
CORSAIR XM2 DDR2 (PC6400)
CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory

He already got himself a new hsf and has a nice psu but I can't remember the brand.
 

DSF

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Have you read the guide graysky wrote that's stickied at the top of the forum? That's a good place to start.
 

loki5667

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Yes I checked out the sticky but since I am not doing the oc'ing I was hoping someone with the same mb could shed some light on settings and also possible issues the mb might have.

I was explaining to him that it's a process and you have to make changes, test them, try to improve, test again...

He had it oc'd @ 2.7 but couldn't get it much higher. His bios is different from mine so I had no idea where he might be overlooking things.
 

loki5667

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No one with a ASUS P5N-E SLI and Q6600?

Quick question with this board and the quad core cpu....the guides show fsb settings like 320-333, but why was my buddy saying his numbers go up over 1000? There has to be something with the quad cores that I don't know about. Is is taking the 320 number x 4?
 

Fadardo

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It has nothing to do with how many cores you have and the fact you have 4 cores.

The FSB are sometimes rated at the actual bus speed eg 333mhz and sometimes rated in Mega transfers/sec (eg 1333). Since the FSB is quad pumped (4 instructions per tick) they sometimes use that stat since bigger numbers help manufactures sell more products.
 

loki5667

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So when I am reading that people are setting the fsb to 325 or 338....in the bios that would be 1325 and 1338?
 

gmofftarki

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Originally posted by: loki5667
So when I am reading that people are setting the fsb to 325 or 338....in the bios that would be 1325 and 1338?


That would be 1300 and 1352, respectively. 400 is 1600, 333 is 1333, et cetera.