overclocking CPU?

Question

I have a Dual Core Intel E6600 processor running at 2.4Ghz, my MotherBoard is Asus P5N-E SLI , i have stock cooling.
I want to overclock my CPU so i went into the BIOS and increased the multiplier from 9 to 10 but above the muliplier the # didnt change, it stayed at 2.4Ghz, and i thought that was ok, so i saved and exited the bios...and when i load my windows and run CPU-Z it sais that my processor is still running at 2.4Ghz and the multiplier is still 9...what am i doing wrong?

I downloaded ClockGen and it allows me to increase the FSB frequency....how far should i push it? right now its at 266

Answer 1

Yes as the person before me said, you are going to need to up your front side bus, since the multiplier is locked. There is no way to unlock the multiplier as it is locked physically on the chip itself.
The overall clock speed of your processor is the front side bus frequency times the multiplier, so in your case your fsb should be right around 267. Now the new dual cores, especially the E6600 are known to overclock well, however with stock cooling you wouldn't want to get much higher than about 2.8ghz, which should equate to about a 311 bus speed.
But as an avid overclocker myself i know you're not going to listen to anyone telling you not to do it, so let me just give you some tips.

-Don't boost your fsb speeds more than 3-5mhz at a time. This could cause permanent system failure, and you will likely have to take just as many steps back as you would have taken forward if you did it in smaller increments.

-Leave the V-core setting alone until you have some good cooling. This increases the voltage your processor receives and greatly increases the heat it conducts.

-Upgrade your cooling system. An example of a good cooling system would be anywhere from water-cooling, to a nice copper Zalman heatsink, like the 7700 or 9500. Those can be found at their website http://www.zalmanusa.com/

-Lastly, use cpu-z to monitor your cpu temps while running a cpu intensive application for at least an hour after you believe you have achieved a stable overclock. a good program to use would be Prime95. You can set the affinity of the program to run on specific cores of your processor, so you can run two instances of the program at once, each utilizing a separate core. If your system hangs or crashes, your overclock is not stable and you will need to back it up a bit until you get some better cooling.

Answer 2

specific, because of the fact once you overclock your increasing the voltage, and that CPU can purely cope with lots and gets warmer than what it rather is meant to and reason problems. in the experience that your going to overclock, get a liquid cooling equipment, then it is not AS risky.

Answer 3

The Intel chips have a fixed multiplier. You need to increase the bus speed to increase the clock speed.

It sounds to me like you are trying this without doing the proper research first. This is a good way to destroy your nice new computer.

Go here and read up on the proper way and the dangers of overclocking:

http://www.overclockers.com/tips1050/

Answer 4

you idiot that will just make your pc crash up....let me tell how it will be in the real world.......ok a guy runs 10 miles in lets say 3 minutes and when you try to push the multiplier its like your forcing him to tun 15 miles in 3 minutes..................

Answer 5

you need overclock software to boost the mhz