Why aren't you curing cancer/HIV/etc? You can.

[Aeson]

I'll add my C2D E4300 (@2.7GHz till the new heatsink gets here) to the mix.

[Provost Harrison]

Well this is a C2D E6700...maybe I should give it a whirl

[Solly]

Your sleep pattern is really screwed aint it?

[Provost Harrison]

Only tonight

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Aeson
I'll add my C2D E4300 (@2.7GHz till the new heatsink gets here) to the mix.

Typo? The E4300 is supposed to run at 1.8GHz, and if you don't have whatever fancy heatsink you ordered installed yet...

[Asher]

Core 2 Duos are great overclockers.

[Aeson]

Yah, 2.7GHz with stock cooling is still well within reasonable temps, no need for bumping the voltage. A lot of people get ~3Ghz on stock cooling, but I didn't want to push it at all yet. I might bring it back down to whatever clockspeed the Thermaltake Ultra-120 will handle passively anyways.

The main reason I'm getting a new heatsink is because of the noise. The stock cooler isn't very loud, but mine makes an annoying whir sound.

[Kuciwalker]

Hm. I should look into overclocking then. My computer has pretty good (and quiet ) fans, so it should be able to handle it.

[Aeson]

What MB and RAM do you have?

A good place to start if you are interested:

http://forumz.tomshardware.com/hardware/CPUs-forum-48.html

[Kuciwalker]

nForce 680i, 2x Corsair DDR2 1024 MB @ 400 MHz

[Drake Tungsten]

I already did my part to stop AIDS; I'm not gay and I'm circumcised.

[Kuciwalker]

You, sir, are a genius. I salute you.

[Aeson]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
nForce 680i, 2x Corsair DDR2 1024 MB @ 400 MHz

The 6600 is pretty easy on the other components given it's 9x multiplier. (Which I think you can set to 6,7,8, or 9?) So no problems there. With your RAM already running at 400MHz, it should be able to handle anything you're going to throw at it. At 9x400FSB = 3.6GHz you'd be pushing the limit of what a e6600 can hope for, and not pushing your RAM any more at all. The 680i MB shouldn't be a limiting factor either.

I'd start with 7x400 = 2.8GHz, 1:1 ratio with the RAM. Bump the FSB a bit a few times, but keep the RAM within specs* by manipulating the ratio. Then try 9x333 = 3GHz, 1:1, and do the same thing. Then 8x400 - 3.2GHz, 1:1. Should be a relatively safe overclock target, even with stock cooling. Probably no need for voltage adjustments either.

*You could OC the RAM later once you find out what your CPU can do... though OC on RAM doesn't really do much for overall performance.

[korn469]

I can't connect to the grid, and I even opened ports 80 and 443 like it told me. What's wrong with it?

[Asher]

You sure you gave it firewall access?