BonzaiDuck
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Originally posted by: Kindjal
Q6600 G0 @ 3.204 GHz (9*356) at 1.32 VCore (bios) 1.27 VCore (CPUz), Zalman CNPS9700 LED
Abit IP35 Pro rev. 1.1 Bios 14
2048MB Corsair XMS2 DDR2 1066 (PC2-8500) @ 534 MHz - 5-5-5-15-2T 2.1V
26C - idle
50C - load (Prime95 Torture Mode 4 cores Small FFT)
This is my preliminary OC - I have not tried to find the limits of the system.
I think more than one of us is betting you could bump up the VCORE to 1.37V to see how far it would go with that. That setting is so close to the recommended max that you should be "worry-free."
My own views are that you should try the Corsairs in a 1-to-1 ratio at the stock latencies for that sort of over-clock attempt, and then see how you might tighten tCL, tRCD. If you can get either reduced to 3 or just 4, the tRP can come down to 4 and I'm guessing tRAS would work at <= 8. Unfortunately, I've heard that the INtel chipset / BIOS won't allow for manual tightening of the bank-cycle-time, but there may be some sort of setting in there that does it for you.
There were a set of Corsair DDR2-800's that had default tCL/CAS = 3. I don't think it's important to exploit the full Mhz spec of your memory, if you can run slower Mhz and tighter timings.