I don't get why...

Kornowski

Kornowski

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Right, I know I've started many a thread about OC'ing and asking what the benefits and disadvantages of it are, but here's another :P

Why do you bother OC'ing, I can understand if you have an Athlon XP or something, but a Core 2 Duo, or even a Quad Core!?

I have the E6300 which is by no means a top end chip, but I can get a solid 50FPS in Bioshock with it maxxed out, and it's more than fast enough in Windows.

Anyway, I was thinking of trying to see what all the hype was about, does this sound right and safe?

Lock the PCI-e bus to 100Mhz
Lock the PCI bus to 33.33Mhz
Turn all the voltages to manual but leave them as they are.
Set the V Core to 1.325v
Set the RAM voltage to 2.1v (defualt for XMS2)
Disable EIST1 and stuff like that (what are they, I forget :rolleyes:)
Set the RAM timings to 5-5-5-15, and then 4-4-4-12 if it's stable
Set the RAM divider to 1:1
Slowly raise the FSB 5 - 10 Mhz at a time

Miss anything? :P
 
Almost never both myself, i recently tried on this Q6600 just out of pure curiosity but have since set everything back down to default.

Not a fan of overclocking myself I suppose, if its not fast enought then i need a new processor in my book :D

For some I guess its just like a hobby, wanting to see just what you can get out of a processor
 
Kornowski said:
Right, I know I've started many a thread about OC'ing and asking what the benefits and disadvantages of it are, but here's another :P

Why do you bother OC'ing, I can understand if you have an Athlon XP or something, but a Core 2 Duo, or even a Quad Core!?

I have the E6300 which is by no means a top end chip, but I can get a solid 50FPS in Bioshock with it maxxed out, and it's more than fast enough in Windows.

Anyway, I was thinking of trying to see what all the hype was about, does this sound right and safe?

Lock the PCI-e bus to 100Mhz
Lock the PCI bus to 33.33Mhz
Turn all the voltages to manual but leave them as they are.
Set the V Core to 1.325v
Set the RAM voltage to 2.1v (defualt for XMS2)
Disable EIST1 and stuff like that (what are they, I forget :rolleyes:)
Set the RAM timings to 5-5-5-15, and then 4-4-4-12 if it's stable
Set the RAM divider to 1:1
Slowly raise the FSB 5 - 10 Mhz at a time

Miss anything? :P
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I like my Core 2 Duo OC'ed b/c I paid $300 for an E6850 3.0Ghz and I can push it to 3.6Ghz and more. I don't want to try to hit 4Ghz yet, maybe when it gets older. I think I could hit 4.2Ghz and 4.0Ghz Stable.
 
cuz is fun!

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Kornowski said:
So, what are the advantages, and Koff, what do you think of the settings I've posted?
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that way takes too long for me. what i do is set it to 2.4 with 1.5v then if stable then 3ghz with the same voltage and then decrease voltage from there until crash. i would jump straight to 3ghz but you're running a 6300.
 
does your mobo have spread spectrum option? disable that.

i had my pcie bus to 120mhz ( it wont let me overclock high set at 100mhz)
 
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