Originally posted by: SerpentRoyal
Originally posted by: Aharami
dont know if this has been asked and answered already or not. I just set up my Q6600 + ultra 120 extreme lapped rig. As of right now, I am running at stock speed but I want to OC.
I have never OC ed before so I need some help.
I want to OC to about 3.2 GHz.
What is the safest way possible to do that? Im not sure if I want to keep C1E/EIST enabled or not.
Also I have Crucial Ballistix 800 4-4-4-12 RAM. CPU-Z says it's 5-5-5-18. What gives?
But before I do anything, I'd like to flash the bios to the latest version but I dont have a floppy drive. Is it possible to make a bootable CD-ROM or USB drive and boot off that? How do I go about doing that?
11 BIOS is very good. No need to change at this time. RESET BIOS.
1. Vcore...1.36
2. Vdimm...2.0 with 5-5-5-15 timing (you can drop timing later)
3. 9x multi
4. 1:1 memory divider
5. 330MHz FSB
DO NOT MODIFY C1E and EIST. Boot to windows. If okay, then raise FSB my 5MHz and reboot. Repeat until you hit 3.2GHz core speed. Run Orthos Large mode for 10 minutes (load all 4 cores). Run Memtest86 test #5 for 50 loops. If okay, then you can drop Vdimm, timing, and Vcore. Retest for stability.
BIOS will auto load the default timing at 5-5-5-18 with 1.8Vdimm to boot RAM.