Hi all. I am a new gigabyte mobo owner and also pretty new to overclocking. I have been playing around with mild overclocking of my Q6600(G0) together with the GA-P35-DS4. Very easy to do and this board has so many options that it is very flexible. Therein lies the rub though, its hard to know what is the BEST way to go because of so much flexibility. A couple questions: (my system specs below)
1 - What is an acceptable Northbridge temperature and how can I monitor it? I am touching the NB heatsink with my finger and its just barely warm, even when I'm overclocking pretty high. These coolpipe things work great!
My Ram isn't too hot either by touch. Stock CPU cooling so far and no NB fan yet... I don't plan to overclock to the extreme anyway, but I still might get a better cooler to lower fan noise.
2 - Trying to understand if there is any benefit to ensuring 1:1 mem clock divider versus a different ratio? With my system, in order to get into overclocking, I have found a bunch of different combinations that will work between the cpu clock multiplier, the CPU FSB speed and the clock divider(which in my case is either 1:1 or else actually multiplying rather than dividing (ie 2.40 or 2.50).
Should I try to get the most memory bandwidth I can get, even if the memory clock speed is higher than the fsb? Is there any advantage to using 2.00 instead of 2.40 or 2.50 mem clock divider or should I just try to shoot for the max mem bandwidth I can get, regardless of the CPU? I know about heat issues, for now, just wondering about performance considerations assuming the heat will be taken care of.
My ram is overclockable to about 900mhz(I tested it)
GA-P35-DS4
Kengsington HyperX DDR2-800 5-5-5-15
Intel Q6600(G0 stepping)
I will use this machine for audio production, which means that lots of data will be moving around. I think a higher memory bandwidth could be advantageous, but I am wondering if it makes sense to use a strategy where I use a lower cpu clock multiplier with a higher FSB speed and 1:1 divider...to acheive it....or.... should I use the maximum 9x clock multiplier, with a somewhat lower FSB and then a 2.40 or 2.50 mem divider to ramp the mem speed back up to what its capable of?
1 - What is an acceptable Northbridge temperature and how can I monitor it? I am touching the NB heatsink with my finger and its just barely warm, even when I'm overclocking pretty high. These coolpipe things work great!
My Ram isn't too hot either by touch. Stock CPU cooling so far and no NB fan yet... I don't plan to overclock to the extreme anyway, but I still might get a better cooler to lower fan noise.
2 - Trying to understand if there is any benefit to ensuring 1:1 mem clock divider versus a different ratio? With my system, in order to get into overclocking, I have found a bunch of different combinations that will work between the cpu clock multiplier, the CPU FSB speed and the clock divider(which in my case is either 1:1 or else actually multiplying rather than dividing (ie 2.40 or 2.50).
Should I try to get the most memory bandwidth I can get, even if the memory clock speed is higher than the fsb? Is there any advantage to using 2.00 instead of 2.40 or 2.50 mem clock divider or should I just try to shoot for the max mem bandwidth I can get, regardless of the CPU? I know about heat issues, for now, just wondering about performance considerations assuming the heat will be taken care of.
My ram is overclockable to about 900mhz(I tested it)
GA-P35-DS4
Kengsington HyperX DDR2-800 5-5-5-15
Intel Q6600(G0 stepping)
I will use this machine for audio production, which means that lots of data will be moving around. I think a higher memory bandwidth could be advantageous, but I am wondering if it makes sense to use a strategy where I use a lower cpu clock multiplier with a higher FSB speed and 1:1 divider...to acheive it....or.... should I use the maximum 9x clock multiplier, with a somewhat lower FSB and then a 2.40 or 2.50 mem divider to ramp the mem speed back up to what its capable of?
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