INTELCRAZY
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What is a reasonable, safe OC for an E6600? That will be on a DS3 with
2Gb 800Mhz RAM, and running alongside an 8800GTS and a SATA II HD.
2Gb 800Mhz RAM, and running alongside an 8800GTS and a SATA II HD.
What is a reasonable, safe OC for an E6600?
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WeatherMan
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Depends what cooling you have, id advise you not to go over 1.6 on the VCORE, I know the Intel rating is 1.55, but I have seen many people runing their chips, at 1.6 for over 6 months now, right from the start, no problems anywhere
If your on water, i'd say around 1.55v (if the temps are OK, and just going for the highest you can, I think that would be around 3.8GHz)
If your on air, the same again, 1.45v seems to be the max for C2D's on air, just make sure you don't go over 70c on a full Orthos load and I think you should be seing around 3.6 / 3.7 pretty easily, (depending on the ram)
EDIT: Just done a bit of searching and found that Kingston use Elpida, Infineon and Micron IC's.
Just tell me what Kingston modules you have and I can see if you're using D9 or not, 2/3 of Kingstons modules are D9 so if you're lucky and have them on your chips you should be looking at 500M+ FSB (if the DS3 copes) if not just stick it on a 4:5 Divider and you'll be around that 3.8 mark (if your cooling's holding out)
BTW, I have heard that there is a D9 & DS3 compatibility problem, dodgy resistor on the DS3, so watch out for that, not sure if its a problem with the whole range, but I know GMH definetly has a problem.
If your on water, i'd say around 1.55v (if the temps are OK, and just going for the highest you can, I think that would be around 3.8GHz)
If your on air, the same again, 1.45v seems to be the max for C2D's on air, just make sure you don't go over 70c on a full Orthos load and I think you should be seing around 3.6 / 3.7 pretty easily, (depending on the ram)
EDIT: Just done a bit of searching and found that Kingston use Elpida, Infineon and Micron IC's.
Just tell me what Kingston modules you have and I can see if you're using D9 or not, 2/3 of Kingstons modules are D9 so if you're lucky and have them on your chips you should be looking at 500M+ FSB (if the DS3 copes)
if not just stick it on a 4:5 Divider and you'll be around that 3.8 mark (if your cooling's holding out)BTW, I have heard that there is a D9 & DS3 compatibility problem, dodgy resistor on the DS3, so watch out for that, not sure if its a problem with the whole range, but I know GMH definetly has a problem.
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liquidshadow
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I am using D9GMH RAM on the DS3 and have experienced no problems at all.
