Q6600 G0 + Blitz Formula

KWJay

KWJay

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Hi people.

I have finished by new build (see sig) and am looking for a bit of help OCing this baby.

Basically i'd like a bit of advice as to how to OC this setup and how the voltage settings work on this board. I've been used to my DFI SLI-DR Expert for the last couple of years but can't really figure out what the voltage options mean on the Asus board.

There's CPU Voltage (thats on'es fairly obvious), CPU voltage Reference (not sure what effect this has), Loadline Calibration (again no idea) and FSB Termination Voltage (another new one on me).

If someone could give me some tips or explination as to what these do i would appreciate it.

Also, i've noticed that if i leave my CPU Voltage left to auto, as i increase my FSB speed, the core voltage seems to increase at the same time, is this right?

Any and all help greatly appreciated guys! thanks!
 
KWJay said:
Hi people.

I have finished by new build (see sig) and am looking for a bit of help OCing this baby.

Basically i'd like a bit of advice as to how to OC this setup and how the voltage settings work on this board. I've been used to my DFI SLI-DR Expert for the last couple of years but can't really figure out what the voltage options mean on the Asus board.

There's CPU Voltage (thats on'es fairly obvious), CPU voltage Reference (not sure what effect this has), Loadline Calibration (again no idea) and FSB Termination Voltage (another new one on me).

If someone could give me some tips or explination as to what these do i would appreciate it.

Also, i've noticed that if i leave my CPU Voltage left to auto, as i increase my FSB speed, the core voltage seems to increase at the same time, is this right?

Any and all help greatly appreciated guys! thanks!
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I'd take vCore off auto as it may be putting far more volts into your chip than you need. This would cause more heat, waste electricity (read watts from your PSU) and potentially limit your overclock.
 
Yeah, already done that as i thought it was a little off kilter! I've also noticed that in both the hardware monitor section of the bios and cpuz the reported vcore is about 0.05v below what i have selected in the bios.

Has anyone else got this board and if so got any hints/tips for ocing with it? thanks again!
 
I have this board.

Loadline calibrations is basicly a voltage dampener. It prevents the Vcore from drooping as much under load. It will still droop a little but not as much without it enabled.

Apart from CPU, NB and SB I havn't messed with the voltages much.
 
Thanks Weebo. I have it at 3.01Ghz prime stable at the moment on 1.30675v at the moment, what voltages have you used on your vcore nb and sb?
 
Who's weebo?:p

I didn't need to increase the SB+NB voltages until I went above 400fsb.

I'm currently trying out 8x500 with 1.8 on the NB and 1.2 on the sb.;)
 
lol!! sorry w3bbo! not sure where my mind was when i wrote that, probably dreaming of the dizzy heights i aim to reach with this cpu! lol!

Its priming at the mo at 3.22Ghz, at about 1.3750v. Haev you noticed any dif between the readings in cpu-z and the bios hardware monitor section and the voltage that you've set? i seem to get a 0.05 variation...
 
Yes there is a little drop from the voltage shown in the bios to the voltage shown in windows. All boards suffer from this.
 
w3bbo said:
Yes there is a little drop from the voltage shown in the bios to the voltage shown in windows. All boards suffer from this.
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After doing a little searching i stumbled across another forum where someone had asked about this. The last post mentioned turning Loadline Calibration from Auto to Enabled. I have done this and i'm now priming my cpu at 3.4Ghz on 1.4v set in bios. Previously i was pushing over 1.425v and it was still erroring out of prime within a min or two, its now been 10 mins with no probs. I know its not a major difference but it looks like this setting really helps stabilize the voltage wobble on this board. Lets see how far we can push things now eh w3bbo?? (thats if you hadn't discovered this yourself already! lol!) :D
 
w3bbo said:
I have this board.

Loadline calibrations is basicly a voltage dampener. It prevents the Vcore from drooping as much under load. It will still droop a little but not as much without it enabled.

Apart from CPU, NB and SB I havn't messed with the voltages much.
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