When should i start increasing voltage?

read overclocking 101 through and through... it explains everything...

but in a nutshell, up the frequency 5-10mhz until it wont boot, then lower it by 5-10 mhz until it will pass the stress testing. its that simple.
then, if you really believe you need more out of it you can mess around with voltages. personally, i wouldn't because voltage= heat, and you may be overvolting the cpu when the cpu doesnt need it and something else is holding you back. for me it was my northbridge.
 
I would heavily recommend OCing in the BIOS and not in windows. Much more stable and less likely to cause problems.
 
You need to mess around with the MCH or Northbridge voltages. That, most likely, is what is holding you back.
 
I've tried the suggestions here...
couldn't find much help in OC101
Tried increasing the Vcore, NB Voltage, RAM speed...
Nothing.This is starting to seem like a dead end for me.
 
Lower the Ram speed
increase timings
Increase NB Voltage
Increase Vcore (Max I'd say is around 1.5V)
 
Okay, well unfortunately none of the suggestions worked.
I decided to try OCing even with the error, since it says it will run at a lower clock speed with performance impacted. That doesnt seem true, and I'm at 3.0GHz with a 0.0125 voltage increase, with SiSoftware Sandra scores 21% higher for multimedia than stock E6600, so it seems that the error message is really just a message shown in error with no effect. Does this seem correct?
 
Looks like it did end up being problematic. At times, when shutting down, I just got a blank blue screen.

I don't think its a motherboard or BIOS problem. I just flashed the BIOS, no fix. I've also read of people with the same specs (motherboard, CPU) as myself overclocking quite high. I have no idea what this issue is with the "267MHz FSB" is. It's really irritating me.

Anyone else have ANY ideas? Could it actually be my E6600 ?
 
Hmm I just noticed when looking at my memory (Patriot eXtreme performance DDR2-800 @ 4-4-4-12) on Newegg that it runs at 2.2V. The MSI website says my P6N SLI Platinum...
• Supports dual channel DDR2 533/667/800, using four 240-pin/1.8V DDR2 DIMMs.

Could the voltage be the cause of the issue?

EDIT: Doesnt seem like this is the issue, as it look like it is running at 1.8 (or so) Volts via BIOS
 
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