Whats up guys, new to the forum and found it in complete frustration after spending hours trying to get my cpu overclocked. I need major help. My bios allows me to overclock my processor and I know it can happen I need some help because It just isn't wanting to work for me. first off, here are some specs that should be looked at for overclocking. Asrock Conroe1333-DVI/H Motherboard (Bios P.210 by american megatrends) Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.66ghz 3gb ram (2x1gb DDRII533, 2x512mb DDRII533) Liquid cooled (so I should have no problem with overheating the cpu while overclocking) Windows 7 32bit my chip is a E6750. My ram is by Crucial, and according to the cpuID, under the memory tab, my DRAM frequency is 254.8 mhz. Anyways, here are some pics of the bios and whats available... (these pics are straight from the manual, so some of the actual values that are set are different then what is on my actual bios) this is what pops up when i go to advance.. then when i go to cpu config... and then when i go to cipset config... The problem I am having, is it has the option for overclocking, but it dosen't give me the option to change everything I need. there is no voltage change for the cpu in specfic, as you can see on the bottom of the cipset config there is VCCM voltage, I can change that from auto, high, medium, low. There is also something else under that, that you can't see in the picture called VDDQ Voltage which also has the same options. When Ever I go to overclock, it is set at standard for 333 in the frequency (the multiplier is x8, so 333x8 is the standard 2.66ghz) I can move it up a bit to 351 to get it at 2.78ghz, but anything after that, it just won't boot up into windows. It will load up all my information, and it will even recognize that I have a 3ghz processor if thats what I have it set it to be overclocked to. When it should go to the first windows loading screen, a message pops up on a dos looking screen that says "restart and select proper boot device or insert bootable media into bootable device." Like I said, this only happens if I start to overclock it over the 2.78ghz. I was under the assumption that when overclocking you have to compensate for more power to the cpu and memory from the ram, yet I don't see anywhere to change this, and I am guessing that is why it isn't letting me overclock but that small bit. From what I have read through the manual it seems like they have this set up to do automatically, but I am not sure (link to the manual is below). Any suggestions?
in your second screenshot, disable everything at the bottom part of the screen. thermal throttling and hyperthreading dont need to be on. your motherboard isnt going to overclock very far, not sure what chipset it is, but im pretty certain its not a very good one. im sure its not bad, just not good for overclocking. not sure what vccm voltage is but maybe your cpu voltage will be under that. if not, im not really sure what to tell you. but in order to get any decent overclock, your going to need to crank the voltage up using that board im sure.
yea, all of that is disabled on mine, those were actually screen shots from the pdf manual. here is more specs that i left out... chip is a E6750. ram is by Crucial, and according to the cpuID, under the memory tab, my DRAM frequency is 254.8 mhz. and here is a link to the manual which mentions a few things on overclocking, but it didn't seem to help me out at all... http://download.asrock.com/manual/CONROE1333-DVIH.pdf btw, i updated the main thread a bit to include some more detail.
could very well be your ram thats holding your overclock back. when you are working with ram that runs at such low speeds (533 is a very low speed for ddr2 ram) that it can cause your ram, which usually is locked by a ratio to your FSB, to be overclocked beyond its limits. look for a way to lower your DRAM:FSB strap. actually i see you can set your ram clock, set it to 200 then try to overclock some more. post back and let me know what you get.
