Overclocking

[LiL T]

I went ahead and overclocked my CPU being intel dualcore E6600 I think, stock speed is 2.4 mhz, I took it up to 3000 mhz and ran a stability test on it. Were I montiored its temprature at max load using one of 2 programs I have, TAT and prime95 and I found the temprature to be way to high imo :crying:. I have overclocked it at 3 Ghz befor but I went back to stock speed since I felt I did not need it but untill now I never really checked how well it does at these speeds. Over 70 degrees celsius imo is almost breaking it :( I must either have one of those CPU's that came in a bad batch that can't be overclocked to well. Or I'm just overacting, so what do you guys get temprature wise?

Btw I have tryed lowering the voltage, but it will not boot or becomes unstable unless I provide the power, I had it it at 1.45 V for 3000 mhz and over. Highest temprature I got was like 75 C then I just stoped the process befor anything bad could happen, I know the new intel chips will stop at 80 C and start cutting them selves out. I also have plenty air going into this thing http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-065-AN
Its a very cold case, board/system temp is like 30 and below, so maybe I need to get some fresh thermal paste and or a new fan and heat sink. Or fucking hell a new CPU entirely cos this one don't want to play :rolleyes:

[LiL T]

Think I will buy a quad core when the prices go down tbh, and get windows vista HAAAA. :dry:

[Fridge]

i got a quadcore, a q6600 running at 3.0 Ghz air cooled stable at 60° with Prime 95 running. Awesome CPU tbh and worth it, needs a good air cooler tough

[sWW]

I have my good old e6300 (meant to be 1.86GHtz) running at 3.22GHtz :) on air. Fridge can u not get ur q6600 to 3.6ghtz? ive seen a lot of them getting to that speed.

[ZoneseeK]

my e6600 is running at 2.7ghz per core, but I use liquid cooling...ran at 21 stock and now runs at 28 full load @ 2.7ghz/2. 3ghz is too high for the e6600 in my opinion, but I am not a fan of OCing too high personally. really, if you have a solid video card (running an 8800gtx) there is no need to even overclock an e6600 in the first place these days. its fun to do though.

if you want to have a hell of a time overclocking, get a little liquid cooling solution goin on the new 1200 celeron dualcore. That thing retails for 60 bones here, prob like 35ish euro...runs at 1.6ghz i believe but i hear you can bring it WELL over 2ghz without even running into heat issues with air cooling...i wonder what you can do with liquid on that thing hahaha.

[Morgatha]

I got the same Cpu as you , Running on 3,6 Ghz :shock: with 52 degree and aircooling at 50% of maximum , 1,6 V ... stable


Maybe you should renew the Liquid at your Cpu .:blush:


Whats prime 95 ?

[N1n3]

anyone remember good ol' celeron 300 B ? ^^

[Morgatha]

that time i had no computer :C

3,65 ghz now with aircooling , good zalman 4tw

[LiL T]

I just wanted to push it up to 3+ ghz for fun, I can live with 2.4 ghz though, I'll just have to look at it another day, not gonna mess around with it atm.

[Deuass]

test

[giga191]

so maybe I need to get some fresh thermal paste
Thermal paste is supposed to perform better after having it on there for some time, unless you've over done it wrong and the heatsink is too far from the cpu, or you've underdone it and the entire cpu surface doesn't have paste on it then i doubt it would help. Worth looking at though, paste is cheap :D

What fan/heatsink do you have?

[LiL T]

Thermal paste is supposed to perform better after having it on there for some time, unless you've over done it wrong and the heatsink is too far from the cpu, or you've underdone it and the entire cpu surface doesn't have paste on it then i doubt it would help. Worth looking at though, paste is cheap :D

What fan/heatsink do you have?

Lol yeah it does preform better but not when you go and fuck things up. CPU is dead now, need to buy a new one :)

[LiL T]

Lol yeah it does preform better but not when you go and fuck things up. CPU is dead now, need to buy a new one :)

On deregaurd that post its alive now and 10 C cooler, will need 200 hours burn in befor I consider overclocking it again. Will also need to run some intensive stability tests at stock settings to see if its ok, considering it would not boot yesterday.

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Shes stable at 44 c 100% max load both cores :D see picture attached, thats a fucking result, runs much cooler.

Paste used

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=AC-000-AC

Cleaning fluid used for removing the old intel thermal pad it did an exclent job, really does turn grease into liqiud.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=OA-001-AK&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=27

[LiL T]

Idle temprature...

This is good stuff and after 200 hours of use I can expect it to work better.

@giga

I'm using the stock fan and heatsink, tbh I don't think buying my own would make too much of a difference, also if people use this paste it has to be put on the correct way. They have instuctions on thier site for the daul core intel processor, you basically put a thin strip of the stuff in a straight line passing over the top of the 2 cores. They show you where those 2 CPUs are under the top cover of the CPU, the instructions are in PDF form with pictures showing exactly where it goes.

It needs a steady hand and the stuff is not so liquid, its more of a a thick grease, so its best to squeeze just a little of it onto some kicten roll and wipe off the tip. When I first tryed to apply it, it came out a little lumpy not so good... So I had to reclean the surface. You don't need much, just a thin strip but not a hair thin strip, more like a piece of string in thickness, the heatsink spreads it to about a finger tips width. I know this since I had to take the heatsink off after using it and it had spread quite a bit. covering exactly where the 2 cores are so it works great when properly applyed.

Once this has burned in over a week or so I will overclock this chip and I think I'll easly get 3.4 Ghz out of it 1000 mhz more than stock speed :P

By burning in I mean they who make the paste say it has a 200 hour burning in period, were you should turn off the PC after say 6 hours use to let it cool down to room temp periodically. Due to the way it works, so tonight after 6 hours use I shut down for 30 mins, small inconvenience i'd say, 6 hours up 30 mins down 6 hours up again.

[LiL T]

Got my E6600 overclocked at 3.2Ghz, 1.55 V now, the thermal paste seems to have done the job. Ran prime 95 one for each core for 35 minutes. Its stable never went over 63 C and idles at 30 - 33 C.

I'm sure I can go higher up to that 3.6 but I think maybe i'm limited because of my RAM, I got that overclocked from 800mhz to 900mhz with the timings changed so they look like 4 4 4 12 in bios. Those timings I don't know that much about tbh...