Originally posted by Sophocles:

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im1992

Don't beat yourself up even experienced overclockers get parts that don't always go the way they would like them. You're doing a great job so be happy with what you're learning. You'll find a tweak here and there that will make all the difference. RAM plays a big part in the story but as abuzar said even at 3.2 GHz it's a powerful PC, and I for think that you will go higher in time. I built my PC only 8 days ago and I'm still playing with settings.

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was doing it mostly for overclocking it higher than the E6300 I had before...

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Originally posted by im:

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any of you who have a quad core, what kind of overclocks have you gotten?
thanks,
-im1992

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Originally posted by greensman:

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Originally posted by im:

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any of you who have a quad core, what kind of overclocks have you gotten?
thanks,
-im1992

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OK.. that does it... I'll get mine out and see what I can do with it tonight if the kiddies cooperate. lol. I have a Striker Extreme and a Q6600 with DDR2 1066 RAM. ;) Wish me luck and the beauty is I can read over what Soph has recommended and apply it to my situation.

Thanks to im1992 and Soph for your time and efforts. :)

.....gm

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Originally posted by im1992:

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its weird 3.375ghz seems extremely stable but if i try to go even a little higher, everything fails.....so i guess i will be sticking with this speed unless greensman comes up with something better with different settings.....
-im1992

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Originally posted by greensman:

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Originally posted by im1992:

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its weird 3.375ghz seems extremely stable but if i try to go even a little higher, everything fails.....so i guess i will be sticking with this speed unless greensman comes up with something better with different settings.....
-im1992

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IIRC it's 1503 as well. ;)

The GM isn't having good luck right now... for some reason it won't post... I just put a NEW gpu in and it should be working like a champ!!! Gonna do some moving around and see what the issue is. ;)

.....gm

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Originally posted by traft:

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I'm trying to find out if there is any way I can overclock my CPU with this set up. I've tried software like SoftFSB, CPUFSB, and Clockgen but i can't get them to work since I have 64bit or Vista. Bios I can overclock very little and won't stay, I know my Mobo sux for overclocking only able to change voltage and multipler no higher then 10x and FSB won't stay when i change it to anything but 200mhz. I know my mobo supports 1066mhz and my current is only 800mhz.

Vista 64bit Ultimate
ECS P965T-A Rev B
Intel Pentium E2180 Dual Core 2.0Ghz
2GB Dual channel DDR2 667 PQI brand
Evga 7600GT 256MB PCIE

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Originally posted by traft:

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I have tried changing it to 266 or 333 fsb in the bios and it won't save it just disables it every time even tried to lower the multipler to the lowest 6 and then change the fsb but still wouldn't work. As for modding the chip i have to really look into and learn about it never tried that before.

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now i know what you guys are thinking.....ECS...not good for overclocking but i have taken my P4 630 to 3.6ghz stable 24/7 on the ECS 915p-a so i do not believe that the manufacturer of the motherboard has anything to do with overclocking...although i did take the same CPU to 4.1ghz 24/7 stable on my Striker, the 3.6ghz overclock was nothing to be sneezed at...

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Originally posted by abuzar1:

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now i know what you guys are thinking.....ECS...not good for overclocking but i have taken my P4 630 to 3.6ghz stable 24/7 on the ECS 915p-a so i do not believe that the manufacturer of the motherboard has anything to do with overclocking...although i did take the same CPU to 4.1ghz 24/7 stable on my Striker, the 3.6ghz overclock was nothing to be sneezed at...

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LOL, no offense Imran, but that right there is just plain WRONG. I'd like to see you OC on Intel boards ;)

Oh and You took a E2180 to 4Ghz 24/7 STABLE? Man that pretty much makes you a pro right there.

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Originally posted by shaffaaf:

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i have downclocked my CPU to stock, and now i find that it sits at around 38/43 (core 1 and 0) on IDLE

EEEEKKKKK

looks like i need to re-seat the actric cooler freezer 7 pro, but ill need some new thermal paste first.

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Originally posted by traft:

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yes but they have pretty much stopped making bios for it now hasn't been a new one for quite awhile now.

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Originally posted by im1992:

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@greensman
i am waiting.....lol
so what happened with the no post? does it work now? and did you overclock?
-im1992

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