I believe my board may be the culprit and am debating changing it for a Gigabyte p35-ds3l.
I have been able to reach 2.6ghz but only with 1.4 volts.
I have disabled speedstep and another option as per the overclocking guide.
my ram is ddr2 667, right now it is running at 725 since my bios does not let me choose anything besides auto, 725 and higher. so i have that set to 1.9volts.
I have a zalman 7700 cooler and 4-12cm fans accross.
I am not sure what i am doing wrong, because many people have said they get higher at a lower voltage.
I am stable through prime 95 and reach about 62-63 degrees celsiuc this way.
Anyone know if I would be better off with the board? or changing the chip?
Is that a p35 chipset board? 1600mhz is normally the reliable overclock limit for p35. Many people get higher, but you should not count on that as if it's a certainity. 1600 is what you can reasonably expect, if you get higher, count yourself lucky, if not, you have no right to get angry. If you're going to get a new motherboard for higher overclocking, get x38, which runs at 1600mhz natively, and oc reliably to 2000+mhz.
running at 400 for FSB you need to up the voltage of both NB and PLL.your ram could be the limit as its unstable in overclock.replace them with ddr2-800.
I do not plan on going to 400 fsb, 333 maybe a bit more, i only want to get to 3ghz or so, maybe 3.2. but at least 3 and stable and then i wont worry what so ever.
I do not plan on going to 400 fsb, 333 maybe a bit more, i only want to get to 3ghz or so, maybe 3.2. but at least 3 and stable and then i wont worry what so ever.
Then a cheap p35 will do. It runs at 1333mhz(4x333) fsb natively, and most can reliably oc to 1600mhz.