Overclocking E6600 on P5NE-SLI

[micromanmall]

Hi all, hoping someone has some tips on this. Can't seem to break 3.2Ghz mark with my E6600. I did flash my mobo to Bios 505 which supports 1333Mhz FSB. Can't seem to set it past 1580 without PC locking @ post. Cooling is fine as i'm running Aquagate liquid cooling system and temps are idle @ 34c.
Followed through the DC overclocking guide at following all voltage settings.
Using OCZ PC8000 with manual timings of 5,5,5,15 1T.

Thanks in advance!

 

[dragonsprayer]

lol! cooling fine? did you water cool the nb?

some p5n-e / e6600 will top out at 3.25ghz most run good at 3.37ghz

the max is 1500 on the p5n-e with additional NB cooling - see below:

i am too lazy to load a close up photo - you see the small fan mounted on the nb next the memory cooler.

even with these mobs long term stablity is max at 3.37 - you occasionally get 3.6ghz but it will eventually over run the nb


set your cpu voltage to 1.46-1.475 you see that at idel it runs 1.41-1.42 and at max it ramps up to 1.45 or so.

nb is usually set to 1.56

 

[paki]

you lie or have never used this motherboard before.

i have, its my motherboard.

it can EASILY goto 3.4 ghz on e6420

i even got it to 3600 but damn blue svreens of death every few hours so wasnt worth it.

this was with no extra cooling, although the antec case i have is pretty nice.

 

[paki]

imo, your problem is same as mine op. try increasing your vcore to 1.55, this is the intel max limit* which is ok since intel have tested it at 1.55 ( read it on intel site)

most hardcore overclockers go much higher though, but 1.5 can easily do 3.5

your cpu is better than mine also

 

[jeremyrailton]

don't forget to up your northbridge voltage. it's set too low at stock for much overclocking. I forgot the original setting, but i upped it one step above stock and it overclocks great.

 

[pmr]

Hi all, hoping someone has some tips on this. Can't seem to break 3.2Ghz mark with my E6600. I did flash my mobo to Bios 505 which supports 1333Mhz FSB. Can't seem to set it past 1580 without PC locking @ post. Cooling is fine as i'm running Aquagate liquid cooling system and temps are idle @ 34c.
Followed through the DC overclocking guide at following all voltage settings.
Using OCZ PC8000 with manual timings of 5,5,5,15 1T.

Thanks in advance!

Set Command Rate to 2T. Set NB Voltage to 1.39 (or more) and add a 40mm fan to the NB.

 

[Icekilla]

I have a similar problem, these are my specs

Core 2 duo E6600 2.4GHZ OC'd @ 2.88GHZ
NVIDIA GeForce 9800GX2 1GB GDDR3 Video Card
4x Kingston KVR667D2N5/1G Value RAM OC'd to 800MHZ
Asus P5N-E SLI Motherboard
Western Digital WD500AAKS 500GB SATA Hard Drive
Western Digital WD800B 80GB IDE Hard Drive (For Music, software installers, Ubuntu and XP)
Thermaltake bigwater CL-W0121
Cooler Master 650W SLI Certified Power Supply Unit
Acteck Octanux White Case
Ubuntu, Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista Ultimate X64

Ok, so the thing is, that I made the overclocking from that BIOS using the AI tuning option but it only allowed me to overclock from 2.4GHZ to 2.88GHZ (it seems to be in every P5N-E) so, my question is, how can I take the E6600 to 3.2GHZ? How can I manually overclock it? What's the Vcore the CPU need to run at that speed? Will my cooling system be able to keep the core 2 duo cold enough?