Overclock...what overclock
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Ok with two sticks removed, the machine failed to boot at all. A bios recovery took place and then it booted. I changed all the bios settings as directed and it booted fine. 10 seconds after I started Prime95 it crashed. Call me what you will but I've had enough. I simply don't have the patience to keep recovering the bios and trying a 20th of a volt at a time. It's back to stock. I'll just buy a new 45Nm 4 core when they come out in the new Year. I greatly appreciate you guys for helping me but unless I can see someone else's 100% stable settings - on my exact kit, it stays stock. Once again thank you.
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Try setting the FSB so you're not at 3Ghz but slightly below - say 2.8Ghz. When you lower it enough to find a stable overclock start lowering each of the voltages slowly untill you find the lowest voltages for this setting.
Next increase the overclock slightly, 200Mhz or so. Now increase each voltage in turn untill you find a combination that works with the lowest voltages. Keep doing this until you reach your desired overclock.
It may be just that your chip doesn't have 4 cores which will do 3Ghz - it happens.
Overclocking is almost always most successful when taken slowly.
Next increase the overclock slightly, 200Mhz or so. Now increase each voltage in turn untill you find a combination that works with the lowest voltages. Keep doing this until you reach your desired overclock.
It may be just that your chip doesn't have 4 cores which will do 3Ghz - it happens.
Overclocking is almost always most successful when taken slowly.
I was bored of playing GRAW 2 this evening as I can't seem to get Rosin into the damn Blackhawk so I decided to attempt an OC again. I have set the bios as instructed previously only this time letting the bios control the voltages. It crashed with 5 mins, so I changed the FSB from 334 to 333 and it's been running ever since. I have played GRAW 2 again and Bioshock. It's still running. Is this normal?? Some people on this forum boast good OC with voltages set manually other say auto. Does Prime95 give a report at the end or does the user terminate when they need the PC back? Basically how will I know if it's good or bad?
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Right, its crashed at idle. Now I'm convinced Overclocking is a myth and even reportedly brilliant mobos like my DQ6 are designed to run stock end of story. I OC'd it to 2.6 just 200MHz up it crashed during an email. As I said OCing is a myth. I remain unamused. Good luck to all in this part of the excellent forum.
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Does it run completely stable when its not overclocked? Or have you experienced any problems?
I have the same mobo as you and what helped me was to remove my RAM and check for stability with each one of my RAM modules, then i combined them again and made sure that i fitted them correctly and in the meantime found that my USB hard drive was causing some problems with my overclocking, not exactly sure why...
Anyway dont give up, run after you try to re fit all your modules run memtest for a few hours to make sure that the RAM is fine.
I have the same mobo as you and what helped me was to remove my RAM and check for stability with each one of my RAM modules, then i combined them again and made sure that i fitted them correctly and in the meantime found that my USB hard drive was causing some problems with my overclocking, not exactly sure why...
Anyway dont give up, run after you try to re fit all your modules run memtest for a few hours to make sure that the RAM is fine.
Yup it's completely stable @ stock (2.4)
Tell me why when advised to set my RAM to 2.0 strapping the RAM is clocked at 680 not 800 or above??
When I can afford it I want to swap to 8500 RAM or better in readiness for 45Nm next year.
Tell me why when advised to set my RAM to 2.0 strapping the RAM is clocked at 680 not 800 or above??
When I can afford it I want to swap to 8500 RAM or better in readiness for 45Nm next year.
Hi Mr Hatman,
I've got my Q6600 running on my Gigabyte DS4 at 3.36GHz. All I did was change my FSB and up my CPU core voltage a fraction. I can let you know what they are exactly tomorrow. (I am baby sitting my baby daughter at the mo so canltget to my rig
). I have done nothing to the memory or other voltages/timings. Indeed, I know jack all about this subject. However, it is an art, not a science. It all "depends". Have you blasted your setup overnight with stock values?
I still need to play around with my memory since it's at stock at the minute.
Donlt give up m8. As long as you don't set the values to stupidly high voltages you can't damage anything. Why not ask WJA96, Cob and the other dudes? That's what I'm gonna do when i want to do some more OCing. I have just got my 880GTS 640 up from stock to 650/900 and get 30% extra performance. Don't give up yet, there's loads of performance dying to get put of that kit of yours !!
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I've got my Q6600 running on my Gigabyte DS4 at 3.36GHz. All I did was change my FSB and up my CPU core voltage a fraction. I can let you know what they are exactly tomorrow. (I am baby sitting my baby daughter at the mo so canltget to my rig
). I have done nothing to the memory or other voltages/timings. Indeed, I know jack all about this subject. However, it is an art, not a science. It all "depends". Have you blasted your setup overnight with stock values?I still need to play around with my memory since it's at stock at the minute.
Donlt give up m8. As long as you don't set the values to stupidly high voltages you can't damage anything. Why not ask WJA96, Cob and the other dudes? That's what I'm gonna do when i want to do some more OCing. I have just got my 880GTS 640 up from stock to 650/900 and get 30% extra performance. Don't give up yet, there's loads of performance dying to get put of that kit of yours !!
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Okay... First of all start by resetting evrtyhing to default settings in your BIOS.
Then, find your RAMs default timings and voltage, it should be on the box you bought or online. While in BIOS Ctrl+F1, go to the tweaker menu, add the necessary voltage and change the timings to manual making them the default ones. The ram frequency shouldnt be higher than 800Mhz, adjust the dividers until you get to 800 or LESS.
The performance enhance feature should be set to standard as well, PCI-E frequency to 100 (some people say 101, dont know why though, had no problems with 100 yet).
Leave al the other voltages to their default settings and enable overclocking, change your FSB to 333.
Go back to the BIOS main screen, find and disable all energy saving features! There are around 3-4 of them i think. Disconnect ALL peripheral devices, only leave your mouse and keyboard connected. Save and exit...
It should be able to boot normally, if there are problems then you should consider opening your case up, and re-fitting everything, especially the RAM modules, and then running memtest for a few hours to ensure stability of RAM. You could try overclocking with only 1 RAM stick as well to check if one of the sticks is faulty.
Then, find your RAMs default timings and voltage, it should be on the box you bought or online. While in BIOS Ctrl+F1, go to the tweaker menu, add the necessary voltage and change the timings to manual making them the default ones. The ram frequency shouldnt be higher than 800Mhz, adjust the dividers until you get to 800 or LESS.
The performance enhance feature should be set to standard as well, PCI-E frequency to 100 (some people say 101, dont know why though, had no problems with 100 yet).
Leave al the other voltages to their default settings and enable overclocking, change your FSB to 333.
Go back to the BIOS main screen, find and disable all energy saving features! There are around 3-4 of them i think. Disconnect ALL peripheral devices, only leave your mouse and keyboard connected. Save and exit...
It should be able to boot normally, if there are problems then you should consider opening your case up, and re-fitting everything, especially the RAM modules, and then running memtest for a few hours to ensure stability of RAM. You could try overclocking with only 1 RAM stick as well to check if one of the sticks is faulty.
Ok I reset everything, and decided to test my RAM first. The specs say 4-4-4-12 well that's a laugh for a start!!!!! With the bios ALL stock except the timing the PC does NOT start at all. Resetting the bios is doing my head in... My main OCing skill is bios resetting!!!
Following Trunks9486's instructions and it crashes just before windows starts. When I can I'll bin the RAM and change to Ballistix 8500.
Following Trunks9486's instructions and it crashes just before windows starts. When I can I'll bin the RAM and change to Ballistix 8500.
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download and run memtest, it sounds like something is faulty... try and refit the memory and run memtest! Burn it on a bootable CD, put stock everything and test the RAM, if there is a SINGLE error, RMA the RAM immediately
I think its possible its the RAM...
I was just playing with my bros PC which has 2gigs of the same RAM and very similiar hardware setup and I couldn't get it stable on any settings but stock - even running the RAM below spec very odd... and I know my overclocking (check superPI thread
) changed the RAM for mine and I got 3.4gig easily - not going higher as its not my PC to mess up...
I was just playing with my bros PC which has 2gigs of the same RAM and very similiar hardware setup and I couldn't get it stable on any settings but stock - even running the RAM below spec very odd... and I know my overclocking (check superPI thread
) changed the RAM for mine and I got 3.4gig easily - not going higher as its not my PC to mess up...Ok, I did what I thought was right regarding the settings. I left them as was. I ran the test overnight and took this image this morning. Not really sure what it tells me apart from no errors.. Can anyone suggest why the L2 cache is not recognised????
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I'm in a similar position as you; system is rock solid at stock (2.4GHz Q6600), and I can only overclock it a few percent. Memtest86 completes without issue. I don't have time at the moment to investigate the causes. I think I will just get a Penryn next year.