One of my last firsts, overclocking.

[teemo_smb]

I have a system on the way, and I'd like to know what I should overclock and maybe how to do so. I don't want to shorten the life of my system dramatically. So can you point me to some safe overclocks of the following system? It's air cooled.

Antec Nine Hundred Steel Case
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811129021

GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3R LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813128050

Western Digital Caviar RE WD1600YS 160GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822136062

EVGA 768-P2-N831-AR GeForce 8800GTX 768MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Video Card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130072

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz LGA 775 Processor Model BX80557E6600
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819115003

OCZ GameXStream OCZ700GXSSLI ATX12V 700W Power Supply
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817341002

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer 7.1 Channels PCI
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16829102006

G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820231065

ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 7 Pro 92mm CPU Cooler

Windows Vista 32 bit Home Premium

 

[conkerman]

Hi there.

I built my system last week I have an E6600 on a P35C-DS3R, I went for a thermalright ultra 120 extreme as I wanted a nice quiet CPU cooler

You should be able to overclock to 3.0 GHZ with absolutely no work The motherboard will overvolt your CPU slightly, ou should be able to lower the voltage to the minimum required for stable operation, but the auto settings are OK

Easy way to have a 25% increase in clock speed

Thats where I am at the minute.

I was thinking of dropping my multiplier to 8 and setting the FSB to 400MHZ and running synchronously at 3.2GHZ.

Does this sound like a good plan?

Cheers
Conks

 

[xciter]

It will be better to go for a higher clock than for 1:1 ratio.

 

[conkerman]

Why is that then?

I would have thought that running at 3.2GHz and synchronous memory would be a good solid overclock without going crazy. I like the idea of synchronous memory as it makes me think it will all run smoother

With a reasonable cooler and a slight increase in Vcore this should be OK. My vCore was set by the motherboard and has been stable for 3 weeks of pretty intensive use!

My memory will run to about 900MHz so I have some leeway to overclock some more, If I want to go mad I can always put the multoplier up to 9 again.

I am trying for the optimum, not the maximum as my PC runs most of the time as a media server.

Just how far do you want to go?


Cheers
Conks