Hi and thanks for the help in advance. I've finally put together my rig and here are the specs:
Case- Antec 900
Motherboard- Gigabyte DS-4 (N650SLI-DS4)
GPU- EVGA 800GTX
PSU- 700W OCZ GameXStream,
CPU- Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
RAM- G. Skill 2GB DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
HD- Seagate Barracuda 7200.10
DVD- Samsung 18X DVD+-R
Cooling- Scythe SCNJ-1100P (wasn't able to put in the optional fan, but may find a place for it) and Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound
OS- Windows Ultimate 32 Bit
At idle the Core Temps are around 35-38C, so it seemed to me that there was ample overhead to start overclocking.
Well, I modified voltages and FSB and got an overclock of 3.1 but here's where the trouble begins. I run dual instances of Prime95 for 2 hours and the overclock passes the inspection (CoreTemp gives temps at load to be 56-58 C, no erros). However, within 10 minutes of closing the program, my computer freezes up. Upon rebooting in about 10-30 minutes the same thing will happen, the computer will hang and freeze. Not wanting to take any chances I went back to the bios and went back to stock settings. There must be some voltage that I'm forgetting to change. Does anyone have a similiar rig and have good settings that they've used for voltages? I forgot to record the settings before putting the bios back to stock settings, so I'll be starting from scratch. My goal is to overclock this e6600 to somewhere in the 3.0-3.2 range. I've read the C2D overclocking guide and since there are some things in the bios that don't exactly match up to what I have in my bios. Thanks for the help!
Case- Antec 900
Motherboard- Gigabyte DS-4 (N650SLI-DS4)
GPU- EVGA 800GTX
PSU- 700W OCZ GameXStream,
CPU- Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
RAM- G. Skill 2GB DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
HD- Seagate Barracuda 7200.10
DVD- Samsung 18X DVD+-R
Cooling- Scythe SCNJ-1100P (wasn't able to put in the optional fan, but may find a place for it) and Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound
OS- Windows Ultimate 32 Bit
At idle the Core Temps are around 35-38C, so it seemed to me that there was ample overhead to start overclocking.
Well, I modified voltages and FSB and got an overclock of 3.1 but here's where the trouble begins. I run dual instances of Prime95 for 2 hours and the overclock passes the inspection (CoreTemp gives temps at load to be 56-58 C, no erros). However, within 10 minutes of closing the program, my computer freezes up. Upon rebooting in about 10-30 minutes the same thing will happen, the computer will hang and freeze. Not wanting to take any chances I went back to the bios and went back to stock settings. There must be some voltage that I'm forgetting to change. Does anyone have a similiar rig and have good settings that they've used for voltages? I forgot to record the settings before putting the bios back to stock settings, so I'll be starting from scratch. My goal is to overclock this e6600 to somewhere in the 3.0-3.2 range. I've read the C2D overclocking guide and since there are some things in the bios that don't exactly match up to what I have in my bios. Thanks for the help!