Hey guys,
Been working on my first real OC with a Q6600 (G0). I have an IP-35 (vanilla - no "E" or "PRO"). I think that's all the hardware you need to really be concerned with?
Anyway.
I tried finding my FSB max. I dropped my multi to 6 and just for giggles tried 400. This lead to me clearing the CMOS, as I got stuck in a quick power on/power off loop.
Well, damn, I shouldn't need more voltage already!
So, after clearing it, I try 6x400, with 1.44 something VCore. I also, to be thorogh, loosened my RAM timings and kicked the VTT up one, the MCH and ICH up one, and set the RAM to 1.9V.
Save, reboot. Same thing.
Again, I clear CMOS and start at square one. I raise the FSB in increments of 10's. I get to 380 and it'll load into windows - almost. BSOD very quickly. I didn't change any other setting.
Question 1) When running the lowest multi, should I need to kick up the voltages??
So, after a little fiddling and such, I find that at 1.42VCore, 1.9RAM, +1 MCH, +1 VTT I can boot windows and Prime95 for about an hour without issue. Temps are even fine here! Speedfan with a correction of +15C puts me at like 62-63C while doing small FFTs.
I'm going to be updating my BIOS to v 12 on the abit site, though I'm not holding out any hopes on this helping.
So, I'll hold off on asking many questions until I have that done (have to dig up a floppy. Damn you abit, I want to do this from a USB drive!).
Does my method so far seem OK though? I thought I'd find the mobo's highest FSB it'll take with the multi set to the lowest it'll go. Then from there I can later decide if my mobo is maxed or the CPU while overclocking.
What am I doing wrong?
Been working on my first real OC with a Q6600 (G0). I have an IP-35 (vanilla - no "E" or "PRO"). I think that's all the hardware you need to really be concerned with?
Anyway.
I tried finding my FSB max. I dropped my multi to 6 and just for giggles tried 400. This lead to me clearing the CMOS, as I got stuck in a quick power on/power off loop.
Well, damn, I shouldn't need more voltage already!
So, after clearing it, I try 6x400, with 1.44 something VCore. I also, to be thorogh, loosened my RAM timings and kicked the VTT up one, the MCH and ICH up one, and set the RAM to 1.9V.
Save, reboot. Same thing.
Again, I clear CMOS and start at square one. I raise the FSB in increments of 10's. I get to 380 and it'll load into windows - almost. BSOD very quickly. I didn't change any other setting.
Question 1) When running the lowest multi, should I need to kick up the voltages??
So, after a little fiddling and such, I find that at 1.42VCore, 1.9RAM, +1 MCH, +1 VTT I can boot windows and Prime95 for about an hour without issue. Temps are even fine here! Speedfan with a correction of +15C puts me at like 62-63C while doing small FFTs.
I'm going to be updating my BIOS to v 12 on the abit site, though I'm not holding out any hopes on this helping.
So, I'll hold off on asking many questions until I have that done (have to dig up a floppy. Damn you abit, I want to do this from a USB drive!).
Does my method so far seem OK though? I thought I'd find the mobo's highest FSB it'll take with the multi set to the lowest it'll go. Then from there I can later decide if my mobo is maxed or the CPU while overclocking.
What am I doing wrong?