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Posted: 05 Aug 2007 at 3:34pm

Kelly how much time have you been on the net looking for these apps? What have you found to be the easiest overclocking tool to use?

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Posted: 05 Aug 2007 at 3:47pm

These are industry tools. I have used all of these at one time or another, but to give credit where credit's due, I just found this list on another forum I frequent and decided that it would be a great reference for us here.

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Posted: 05 Aug 2007 at 5:22pm

and, to answer your question, it depends on what you want to overclock. Different tools work better with different hardware.

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Posted: 06 Aug 2007 at 9:19pm

wow thanks for the list know i know what to acctually look for if i decide to over clock anything.

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Posted: 02 Sep 2007 at 11:09am

Kelly,

Assuming I've downloaded the User's Manual for the right board, the nVidia 680i SLI motherboard will come with some software utilities, including nTune. nTune includes an "Automatic Tuning" mode that according to the User's Manual, " pushes your system to the limits to test the highest possible performance settings." I'm guessing that this automatic tuning would result in a fairly conservative overclocked configuration, but maybe I'm missing the point entirely. If you have used this progam, can you describe your experience with it?

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Posted: 02 Sep 2007 at 11:15am

Ntune is a super buggy and more-often-than-not doesn't work and will kill your system. But then again, it sometimes works well. I've used it on this system :)

so, tell me exactly what you're looking to do and I will tell you what's best :)

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Posted: 02 Sep 2007 at 7:55pm

umm, I was wondering... (heads up this may be kinda retarded lol), well, is it possible to take the side piece off of your case and run mini sand belt fans on your system to cool it off even more thus being able to overclock it even higher??? (you could wear headphones with extra padding to try to block out all the noise)

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Posted: 02 Sep 2007 at 9:53pm

Kelly,

I wasn't planning to do any overclocking originally. I've ordered an air cooled E6850 CPU, DDR2-800 memory, and a 8800 GTS based system. I'm more concerned about stability than performance, but if I could squeeze another 20% out of the CPU, I wouldn't mind.

Let's see.... 1333 MHz FSB means a 333 MHz System Clock which means there must be a 9X multiplier on the CPU clock to reach 3 GHz, but I guess that doesn't really matter.

Increasing the System Clock 20% makes it 400 MHz. How conveinent! That's exactly the rated speed of the memory. So, the DDR would actually run at 800 MHz instead of 667 MHz. The CPU would go from 3 Gig to 3.6 GHz.

What do you think? Can I do that on air cooling and hopefully not tweaking the voltages much if at all?

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Posted: 02 Sep 2007 at 10:01pm

Definitely Bill. That is what I do with my e6600!!!

You don't need software to OC the processor.
Just go into the bios and change all the settings there. :)

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Posted: 03 Sep 2007 at 5:05pm

Originally posted by Kelly

Ntune is a super buggy and more-often-than-not doesn't work and will kill your system. But then again, it sometimes works well. I've used it on this system :)

so, tell me exactly what you're looking to do and I will tell you what's best :)

NTune is exactly what locked my system up the other night and has put me in front of DS. I downloaded NTune and rebooted, and my rig locked up at the Welcome screen. I rebooted no less than 6 times and now it has me at the boot screen and says mu CPU has changed and I'm and idiot for downloading NTune!

Ok, it doesn't actually say that, but this is the piece of crap program that made me start looking for a new rig. Hmmmm, sounds like a marketing ploy to me... DS?
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Posted: 03 Sep 2007 at 5:14pm

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You don't need software to OC the processor.
Just go into the bios and change all the settings there. :)

So, Kelly, with my memory and motherboard, is pushing the System Clock up to 400 MHz just a matter of changing the frequency? Or would you expect to have to tweak the CPU's voltage and perhaps the voltage of other parts as well?

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Posted: 03 Sep 2007 at 6:30pm

it's the frequency, voltage and multiplier you change for the cpu and the memory is voltage and memory timings and memory clock.

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Posted: 03 Sep 2007 at 7:22pm

Kelly,

I was hoping to do it all with the System Clock. The idea was to run the memory at it's rated speed and drag the CPU freq. along for the ride. Does this simple approach mess up the Northbridge or Southbridge chips or something?

I've read the overclocking guide, but I'll have to read it a couple more times before it sinks in. Having the machine in front of me wouldn't hurt either.

At least sounds like increasing the CPU speed by 20% is a reasonable goal with 800 MHz memory and Stage 2 cooling.

I guess I could just go to Stage 3 cooling and let you guys overcook it, but I'd like to learn enough to do this relatively simple procedure myself.

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Posted: 03 Sep 2007 at 7:26pm

you can do it with the FSB clock. Basically you don't have to touch the memory to oc the cpu. But if you raise the CPU FSB, you have to increase the voltages a little to give it more"juice".

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Posted: 09 Sep 2007 at 8:23pm

Whats a good utility to Overclock the nvidia 8800gts 640mb? does Nvidia have one like Ati overdrive?

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Posted: 13 Oct 2007 at 8:37am

What are some tools you would use when overclocking a Q6600 ? Im new to quad cpu's

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Posted: 13 Oct 2007 at 11:07am

We would use BIOS to oc a processor.

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Posted: 13 Oct 2007 at 11:07am

Denslayer, you would use a tool called nvflash to flash the bios for oc'ing a video card

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Posted: 13 Oct 2007 at 1:04pm

My rig has stage 3 cooling, 800MHz RAM and an e6600 which was OC'd by DS to 2.7GHz. Then I wrecked my rig and had to send it back for some TLC.

What do I adjust in the BIOS to get it back to 2.7 or preferably 3.0?

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Posted: 13 Oct 2007 at 1:22pm

I have an e6600 on a secondary system. I know this well.

I did put up some overclocking guides that would help you.

If you're still having problems, post in tech support.

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Posted: 13 Oct 2007 at 1:45pm

I went into the BIOS and was able to change FSB (QDR), MHz to 1400 but upon boot got a stern warning that my system was unstable

That was about the only thing I was able to change.

Will do as you suggest.

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Posted: 14 Oct 2007 at 2:09pm

Originally posted by Kelly

You don't need software to OC the processor.
Just go into the bios and change all the settings there. :)

Kelly,

I must be a dope, when I look at the BIOS setting of the 680i SLI A1 motherboard, I don't see any way to increase the frequency of the FSB. is this possible?

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Posted: 15 Oct 2007 at 1:31am

Bill , go into the Bios , at the main screen select Advanced chipset Features. From that screen you can see System Clocks and FSB & Memory config. The FSB is in those 2 settings.

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Posted: 15 Oct 2007 at 9:45pm

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Bill , go into the Bios , at the main screen select Advanced chipset Features. From that screen you can see System Clocks and FSB & Memory config. The FSB is in those 2 settings.

You are right, of couse, but even after I looked at this page per your instructions, it didn't look like I could change the value there; it was "uneditable". At least it was until I took out of "Auto" mode.

I think I've convinced myself that I don't know enough to fool with this stuff yet. I raised the FSB frequency from 1333 to 1400. The system booted okay, but CPUz stopped running right. CPUz reported the E6800 was running at just 3.15 MHz and most of the other data was missing.

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Posted: 16 Oct 2007 at 1:37am

Overclock use to be simple but with the newer motherboard,chipset and cpu it's getting to complicated, that's why i had DS do it for me. In your case i think you may need to increase the CPU voltage just a bit to get it to work. Also i would put the RAM to Unlinked mode. There are sites on the Net that have guides to help you OC your system too, one of them is the E-Vga forum. If you still want to OC, make sure you write down all the original setting on your PC first so if your OC attempt doesn't work you'll know how to get back to your original setting. Have fun, but if you OC too far and Window won't boot or unstable just go back in the Bios and set it back to the default.

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Posted: 16 Oct 2007 at 11:03am

My ultimate goal, whether it is resonable or not, is to run the system clock at 400 MHz; putting the CPU at 3.6 MHz, the FSB at 1400 MHz, and the memory running at it's rated speed of 800 MHz. Anything less than this 20% boost wouldn't be worth the hassle. On air, anything more seems too radical.

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Posted: 16 Oct 2007 at 12:02pm

Kelly can you comment on whether or not overclocking will invalidate my digitalstorm warranty?

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Posted: 16 Oct 2007 at 12:22pm

Like I previously stated guys... ANY REQUEST FOR HELP goes in "technical support". Ok? Ok.

Now, TallPaul, no it doesn't void your warranty.

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