Having trouble overclocking a E6320
Here's what I have:
C2D E6320 (1.86GHz)
Zalman 7500 HSF
Asus P5N-E
2GB Corsair 800MHz
I cannot get this guy to overclock to save my life.
Anything above 2GHz I'm getting errors on Prime95. Above 2.5GHz I'll get BSOD's during games.
I have the typical settings checked. Ram unlinked. vCore has been boosted anywhere from 1.35 to 1.54 with no luck.
I have a couple days to swap out either the RAM or the CPU. Any suggestions? Anyone heard of a 6320 being this dysmal?
C2D E6320 (1.86GHz)
Zalman 7500 HSF
Asus P5N-E
2GB Corsair 800MHz
I cannot get this guy to overclock to save my life.
Anything above 2GHz I'm getting errors on Prime95. Above 2.5GHz I'll get BSOD's during games.
I have the typical settings checked. Ram unlinked. vCore has been boosted anywhere from 1.35 to 1.54 with no luck.
I have a couple days to swap out either the RAM or the CPU. Any suggestions? Anyone heard of a 6320 being this dysmal?
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What PSU?
What voltage and temperature monitoring software?
Have you made any RAM and/or vCore voltage adjustments in the BIOS?
What about the computer case? Tell us about it's ventilation.
What thermal interface material did you use when you installed the CPU heatsink? How did you apply it?
Are you overclocking the RAM with the CPU, or are you keeping it close to specified frequency?
There are just way too many variables to begin troubleshooting at this point. With the information we asked for, we can make a logical start.
My first guess is memory voltage, but we'll see.
Computer case is an antec p160. Pretty well ventilated.
I'm keeping the ram at stock speeds. Using AS5 thermal grease. At load, the cpu gets to 35 degrees at stock speed, and overclocked to 2.6 it hit about 43 degrees. I'm not sure what "hot" is in the intel world, but my old Athlon would hit 65 degrees at load.
Since I'm not overclocking the memory, there theoretically is no reason to boost the voltage on the RAM, is there?
1) I am fairly sure you do NOT have an overheating problem at this stage. Forgive me if I missed it, but would you please post core temps as read by Core Temp. (I've no experience using SpeedFan with Core 2 Duo processors as I've never owned that CPU. SpeedFan 4.34 v. beta 36 and 37 are 100% in line with Core Temp for Intel quad processors.)
2) Here's an important one: Do you have all CPU and power reducing settings disabled in the BIOS. These would be settings such as EIST and so forth. I don't know your boards BIOSes, but I do know that Abit and Gigabyte Socket 775 boards have settings in the BIOS that will automatically lower the CPU and system clocks in order save on power consumption.
3) A little voltage boost for the DRAM never hurt anything, unless you are running complete junk, which you are not. Quite a number of motherboards undervolt (less voltage than set) the DRAM. For now, go ahead and set your DRAM .05 or .10v higher than default. Even the cheap RAM has voltage increase tolerance.
And for ****s and giggles, try overclocking with only 1 stick of ram and see what happens. I have a P5N-E SLI myself and I found that it is a tricky board at some settings. Right now mine won't even boot so I need to RMA the thing back to Asus.
Frys sold me a pair of OCZ sticks for $30 after rebate. The timings are a bit slower, but I was immediately able to clock it up to 2.8GHz without issue. Haven't bothered going further since it's plenty for my needs, and the temps hit 52 degrees at load. So I might shuffle it down to 2.6 or so.
Leonardo and others, thanks for the help. I miss your old avatar though ;-D