E6600 w/ eVGA Nforce 680i Overclocking

[SgtNightwars]

Hello ^^ Thats my first post yay!

Alright lets get down to business...
My system
E6600 2.4 Conroe w/ a Ultra HSF
eVGA Nforce 680i SE SLI
2gb 667mhz Corsair XMS2 (5-5-5-15)
eVGA GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB
Antec 500W PS
Antec 900 Case
I have 4 120mm fans
(Two up front getting intake one)
(One in the side panel also intake)
(The one on the back is outtake and the HUGE 200mm fan on top is outtake too.)
Every fan is set to 100% since I dont care about noise.


I managed to OC my e6600 Conroe to 2900Mhz with a Vcore of 1.4.
I'm getting idle temps of 32-34 and full load of 50 when using two Prime95 at once going for the Benchmark test.
Using Speedfan 4.34, Core Temp 0.99.3 and Real Temp 2.70

I'd like to know if I should push it farther or if you have any suggestions as to what I should do to OC'it even more or a better way to keep it running stable.

Thank you.

 

[faster3200]

That vcore seems awful high. Try dropping it if you can. Your temps are still ok though so you can keep pushing.

 

[Ryun]

Unless you overclock your RAM which I wouldn't recommend doing, you really can't push your E6600 any farther. You can't push your systems FSB any more than 333MHz (because of the 667MHz RAM), and the E6600 has a locked multiplier of x9.

2.997 GHz is as fast as you can go.

 

[SgtNightwars]

Alrighty then, I'll make sure to look into upgrading my RAM to 800 or maybe something better in the near futur.

I'll run a 24 Torture test this weekend to see if everything is stable.

 

[SgtNightwars]

BTW my Mobo let me change the multiplier so I can actually put it into 8x or whatever lower than 9.
And my RAM is not linked to my FSB so I can keep my ram at 333 without keeping my cpu at that speed.
Don't really know if its going to work anyway

 

[faster3200]

Don't drop the multiplier, that is just silly in your case. You can keep pushing it fine as 50c isn't too high. Start worrying in mid-upper 60's depending on how much room you want to allow for ambient fluctuation.

 

[SgtNightwars]

I've appplied new thermal paste after cleaning up the hsf and the processor and I'm running 45 when going benchmark.

Also my computer crashed overnight without even running any kind of test. I woke up in the morning after leaving it idle and it had auto-shutdown itself for no reasons (Haven't figured out why yet)

Any advice on how to discover why it went FUBAR?


Thank you for your help.

 

[faster3200]

I know I get that issue when my comp isn't actually stable so that would be my guess. I can't imagine there is any other explanation.