E6750 Overclocking

[Lucid Moments]

This is my first time doing any overclocking. I've been reading several of the guides here and other places and am making some headway in understanding them. Even the ones that say they are for beginners are a little advanced for me but I'll get there.

I have an E6750 2.66ghz processor on a Gigabyte GA-P35-S3G motherboard cooled by a Freezerpro 7 cooler. 4GB of Kingston PC26400 Ram. I currently have it clocked at 3.2ghz with a 400mhz FSB and 8X multiplier on stock voltage. Speedfan is showing loaded temps of around 63 to 64 degrees C.

What can anyone reccomend as a next step?

 

[ilovebarny]

is it stable? have you tested it with orthos or prime95? i couldnt get my E6750 to run for more than an hour and it would fail orthos, and my temps where right around what your getting. did you overclock the ram any?

 

[Lucid Moments]

It ran for 6 hours on Prime95 with no errors. I have not overclocked the RAM any yet.

 

[ilovebarny]

WOW! thats impressive. is that the highest it will go on stock voltages? i would OC the ram a little bit, and then try to get the cpu a little faster. you probably dont want to go over 70-75C load temps on this processor.

 

[Lucid Moments]

Thanks. I was probably aided by the fact that I ran the test overnight when my thermostat was turned down. I don't have a thermometer in my office, but I keep the house about 60 deg F overnight. So I'm sure that had something to do. I'll have to think about that come summer time.

I will probably replace the memory before I try overclocking it. I went with economy memory when I built this computer and that was probably a mistake. The mobo supports DDR2 1066 so I may put in some of that and see what happens.

 

[ilovebarny]

dunno bout the memory man. i have seen some reviews were that cheap stuff did really well. my mobo only supports ddr2 1066, and when i oc my memory, it wont post if i go over 1066Mhz.

but ya that nice cool house will help a lot.

 

[one-shot]

I have DDR2 800 RAM and 900Mhz and its fine. My CPU's Vcore is at 1.3875 for 3.6Ghz. I got it up to 3.7Ghz @ 1.42Vcore and booted at 3.8Ghz with 1.42 but it cried for more voltage. I don't think the extra gains are worth the increased voltage. What is the VID on the cpu, mine is 1.3V and it overclocks great. I also have an awesome CPU cooler that helps me overclock a little more.