Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Overclocking Experiences !

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Hello, I'm spanking new on the forum and have been reading through all the different topics that concern the E6xxx series chips, and found this one for the E6600.

I was on another forum that was dedicated to CustomPC and posted a topic concerning the CPU type I could afford and choose, this is the CPU everyone pointed at and so I have bought it.

At the moment, my only OC experinces is with a Socket 939 Opteron 144, increasing it from 1.8 to 2.6 and having it run stable.

Now I have updated everything I want to know what I can push out of this, my hardware is as follows,

E6600 Core 2 Duo OEM cooled by an Artic Freezer 7 Pro
ASUS PB5 Deluxe/WiFi MoBo
2GB DDR2 PC2-6400 RAM
1 x Western Digital Raptor X 150GB System Drive
1 x Samsung Spinpoint 250GB Project Drive
MSI 7900 GTO Overclocked to 1500Mhz (Memory speed so it's the equivilant of a GTX)
Antec P180 Black Case

It's mostly the voltages and the most stable setting (roughly) you think I could use on air cooling. I hope to get a frequency stable of around 3Ghz, anything higher would be an amazing bonus

Thanks alot guys

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[Beomagi]

your milage may vary! you have what i thikn is the top ocing mobo, and a great chip. Anandtech took their e6600 to 4GHz, some people arn't as lucky and get to 3.3GHz. You should be telling US what you get.

 

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I know, I know

I'm just a little phased, I wills tart out at stock voltage, just waiting for my new PSU to turn up which should be in the next couple of days, but say I do need to increase the CPU voltage what is the most common setting used at the moment?

Do you have to put more to the VRM's aswell?

Thanks

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[mobo57]

Hey Default... first see how far you can go on the stock voltages. Seen a lot of people get pretty decent oc's that way. Most of the higher oc's are usually obtained with the FSB at 1.5 and MCh at 1.6 or above and Vcore at 1.475 or above. To get 3.6 g out of my 6600 with the P5W DH Deluxe I have to go 1.5, 1.65 (max for this mobo) and Vc at 1.6. Memory at auto. My temps are low, but then I do have water cooling. Seems around 400 FSB at 9x is a wall a lot of people hit. I have made it to 417, but had to Vc to 1.675. TOO much for my comfort zone. Also read where some that can bump the Mch higher to get some higher oc's. As to my rig, I'm now running at 370 x9 and Vc at 1.5 24/7.

 

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Hello Mobo57,

I will see what I can do, thankyou for the advice.

I still have to wait just a few more days for the PSU to arrive but once I have I'll build it, set it up the see where I get.

I went around to calculate the FSB for a 3GHz frequency and it's 334 I believe, do you think PC2-6400 memory can handle this?

Thanks again,

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[mobo57]

Your memory should not be a problem as it is rated for 400 fsb (800 actually). You should be able to get at least a 25% overclock out of your setup with stock settings. 350 to 370 should be fairly easy with just small bumps in your V settings.

 

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Thanks alot mate, I will give it a go at stock settings and see what I come up with, I'm not sure if I can push past 3GHz without water cooling as I'm using air

Thanks again Mobo57