Overclocking E6600; need RAM recommendation

adarryl

I have this ASUS motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131393

This cpu cooler: XIGMATEK Dark Knight-S1283V http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835233029

This RAM Kingston DDR2 800 HyperX RAM: http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?item=N82E16820134125

AND the E6600 cpu.

Right now, I am topped out at 2.8 Ghz without bumping any voltages. I believe there is more to be had from this processor but I am not making any headway. Would I gain anything by going to DDR2 1066 memory? Something/anything else? THX!

BTW, the power supply is an E-Power 450 Cheetah.

mirage

Multiplying the highest multiplier of E6600 with the 1:1 FSB of DDR2 800, 9x400, gives 3.6 GHz. DDR2-800 will allow you to overclock up to 3.6 GHz without even overclocking the DDR2 memory. Just make sure the RAM voltage and timings are set accurately in BIOS. You can use CPU-Z to make sure.

MAGIC

Set your memory voltage and timings to stock and drop your multiplier to like 6 and increase your FSB by 5 until you cant boot. Now back the FSB to the last configuration that would boot and run memtest see it it passes. You can try to add some voltage to the memory or the chipset of the motherboard to take this higher. At this point you have either found the FSB ceiling of your memory or your motherboard. I think that your biggest bottleneck of that system will be the motherboard.

mirage

The motherboard supports upto 1333 FSB by default. So, at 333FSB (that is 9x333) and 3GHz CPU frequency, there is nothing overclocked other than CPU. But you need to increase FSB after setting the memory speed:FSB ratio at 1:1.

adarryl

Thanks for the assist!