I hit FSB wall at 348 with e6600. Has anyone done a voltage mod on this motherboard? If you have, could you post a picture and description of what is needed. I think I saw a post somewhere that someone had a permanent 1.82 mod. At 1.75 setting I am only getting 1.72 volts. My e6600 will run with a +.5 on the core and 1.30 on the cpu at 348 on the FSB. I can increase every other voltage to melt down settings and cannot boot at 349. My ram is good to 510 at 2.10 volts (using Gigabyte DS3 board). I know I have plenty of headroom on the conroe. It has to be the FSB that's holding me back. Max NB temp is now 110 F. Max dual prime cpu temp is 135F.

Actually I thought that too, but later bioses have turned up that allows much more headroom, most people are reaching a limit around 390, with some getting over that depending on the processor/ram combination. Try these out, and look to raja's guide on getting them to work.

http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showthread.php?t=63411

Also while your ram might be good to over 500 mhz, this board won't allow it, stablely anyways. Try using the 400 divider for the time being and see if that helps.

Please get your sig in order (if you haven't already) and welcome to the forum!

Thanks. I tried every combination of settings on the the thread you recommended and from some other threads. 348 is the best I could do. I tried cpuid and set multiplier to 8,7,6 and the most I could increase was to 353 and this was with 6x multiplier in CPUID and using clockgen to raise the speed.

NOTE: WHY DID SOMEONE MOVE MY THREAD TO MODIFICATIONS AND COOLING?
THIS IS CLEARLY A MOTHERBOARD RELATED THREAD. WAS THE QUESTION SO STUPID?

THIS BOARD IS CLEARLY LACKING IN THE FSB ARENA. SURE 2 OR 3 PEOPLE HAVE GOT TO 400 OR SO, BUT EVEN A BLIND SQUIRREL GETS A NUT ONCE IN A WHILE. OH YEA, I MENTIONED THAT I ALSO OWNED A GIGABYTE DS3 (WHICH FOR $139 BLOWS THIS BOARD OUT OF THE WATER RUNNING AN E6400) THAT MUST BE WHY MY POST WAS MOVED TO AN OBSCURE AREA.

I'VE SPENT 40 HRS OR MORE TRYING TO GET THIS BOARD TO CLOCK DECENTLY. IT IS DEFINITELY ROCK SOLID AT 266 TO 345. BUT HELL A BOXD915 CAN DO THAT!

I'd imagine it was moved here due to it being a modification. Any board mod threads I've seen have been in this forum.

Onto the topic of your fsb and voltage. I'd imagine that it's not a voltage issue as other boards with a 975x chipset can go higher and afaik don't need voltage mods to do it.

All the new bios revs coming out seem to up the fsb for most people so I'd imagine it's just something in there that'll eventualy changed.

Thanks For The Reply. I've Tried Every Bios Revision To Date. Including The Latest Beta 9-13-2006 On Dfi Website. I Got The Same Results With Every One.
Hopefully, A New Bios Will Come Out That Makes This Board Oc Better. For Now, I've Ordered An Asus P5b. This Was The 1st And Probably Last Dfi I'll Buy. Practically Boxing It Up As Week Speak For An Rma.

You did buy an Infinity board... It's not a LanParty. afaik the Infinity are not designed by Oscar Wu and are not designed to be super ocing boards.

It is one of the lowest priced 975x boards. If you check out the Intel OCing section Raju is doing a thread on the stability of the Asus 975x and it doesn't look like the added price = enough added ocing with 100% stability.

So you may want to check out the thread and think if you really need all the extra stuff the board comes with. And honestly does anyone other than perhaps someone who does a lot of video editing need a C2D chip runing at more than 3.0-3.6?

Good Point Wintersfury. I Just Kinda Got Caught Up In This Oc'ing Thing When I Built A Gaming Rig For One Of My Kids. The E6400 Or E6600 Truly Will Run Anything At Practically Stock Settings. Of Course My Little Pent D820 Does Just As Well At Gaming ($98 Ebay Purchase).

Just throwing this out there - but there is nothing wrong with your board. Just because it doesn't overclock as well as you'd like doesn't mean it is malfunctioning in any way, shape or form.

I hope you do the honest thing and either keep it or sell it, otherwise there will be no more discussion about rma'ing it.

Please try to keep this thread on topic from now on.

Good Point. But This Board Has So Much Potential. At Stock Speeds And Minor Oc'ing This Board Does Everything Very Well. Even With A X850xt Pciex Card, It Will Run All Games At Max Settings Without Even A Hickup.

Other Forums Are Talking These Huge Numbers From Other Boards. This Board Just Needs Some Little Something. I'm Willing To Try A Volt Mod If Someone Knows Where To Start.

I'm Not Talking Ablout Extreme Numbers, Just Enough To Show This Is No Slouch Board.

other forums might have lots of "talk" and so far that is all it is. A super pi screenshot at 3.75Ghz...wow...no stability testing to speak of, and only 150Mhz faster than I've been able to get the Infinity 975X/G to go...and at 3600Mhz the Infinity blows the doors off any machine in my lab, and I've got plenty of high-end dual-core, overclocked, whatever'd machines that are crazy awesome...and this thing destroys all of them in every test I've ran...at 3Ghz that is....at 3.6Ghz you can't hardly keep it cool enough with even good watercooling, and it's more insane than it is at 3Ghz in terms of performance.

But see, this leads into my answer for your second question...

Overclocking Database

those are real users (myself included) using real parts getting real overclocks, and they are all real stable.

Notice there are no super pi screenshots or Sandra screenshots...those are simple benchmarks (1MB super pi) that I can complete on almost any machine at any insane speed because the cpu/RAM doesn't have to work for more than 10-20 seconds to spit out a result....unlike 8 hours of dual-prime95, and then all of the standard 3d benchmarks that will stress the heck out of any machine, and 99% of the time will be 100% stable in all 3d games.

Overclocking Database...that is where you want to begin, or possibly forge ahead your own trail and put your own entry in so others will see what kind of clocks you are getting in relation to the rest of us that have already made an entry into the DB.

The more users that post as per the requirements in the OC Database, the better it is for everyone else in the forum, because they have a handy, useful, truthful database of cpu's, ram, mobo's, vid cards, etc that have been overclocked to use as a starting point and beyond to overclock their own machines.

Overclocking is not really a science as much as it is an art (it is science, but how you go about it is what truly makes it more art than science).

No one here is going to just plug numbers at you to try. They are going to tell you exactly what I am going to tell you right now:

Read, Read, and Read. Read the AMD Overclocking Guide, and study it well. While it is mostly about AMD64 series cpu's, there is so much important basic overclocking info there that applies to more than just A64 cpu's.

Then read raju's mini-oc guide in the Intel - Overclocking Section.

Then read the OC Database LGA775 thread and by then, you should be ready to overclock into new areas that no one else has, or at least be able to figure out what you should try next if the previous thing didn't work.

That's the beauty of LEARNING how to do something by reading, studying, practicing. Just being told what to do and what numbers to plug in only makes you a parrot, repeating what others tell you, not knowing what the words you are saying (ie: the numbers you are plugging in), what they mean, etc.

If you are already at the point where you know this stuff like you know english, then we'll give you tips (because that is what a good expert think-tank is...a bunch of dudes who know their shit real well, sitting around giving other dudes sitting around who know their shit well good ideas or smart, tactical things to try that you might not have tried).

Since there's very few entries in the OCDB for the 975, maybe you can show us a thing or two about how to overclock better (hey, we are always open to learning more...see my previous statement about dudes sitting around).


as for this thread, I think I explained it pretty well in the Intel - OC section where your post was locked.