by congo » Sun Oct 29, 2006 7:13 pm
The 6600 and 6700 are identical except for the cpu multiplier. The whole point of overclocking is to get a faster cpu for less money, not pay more for the same cpu already overclocked!
The BadAxe was notoriously difficult to overclock and configure. (at least in it's original form). I hope you know what you are doing. Intel mainboards are built for stability at design specifications. They are not traditionally an enthusiast mainboard.
The overclocking functions are laid out in the manual's bios section and I doubt you will find an easy step by step guide for overclocking that board. A study of the chipset and associated architecture will help you understand what you are doing.
Basically, overclocking a conroe is similar to overclocking any other system, you raise the front side bus speed and try to keep the memory within operating frequency. You keep raising the speed until failure, then make voltage modifications to squeeze even more speed out of the rig, until no further gains are able to be safely made, due to heat/voltage/technology limits. Once the limit is established, a useful and stable setting may be chosen based on your requirements.
The o/c procedure is complex and time consuming and one cannot make hard and fast rules for it due to differences in individual hardware such as cpu's and mainboard chips, they are not all created equally even though they are "identical" products.
Typically I will spend a few hours with a person teaching them the basics of overclocking so that they may continue to learn on their own. Most people are somewhat surprised to learn just how complex this overclocking thing is, and the reason for this is that it requires a good knowledge of the architecture and testing methods used to do it properly.
Asus has just implemented a shortcut approach to overclocking whereby users may swap their bios files with each other, so an overclocker on the same mainboard can post his bios on the web and you can download and use his preset bios settings to overclock your system with! I suggest that a certain amount of "faith" would be needed to use unknown bios files, but this is a really nice feature between trusted users.
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congo on Sun Oct 29, 2006 7:37 pm, edited 1 time in total.

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