Q6700 + IP35-Pro is DOING MY HEAD IN!!!!!! :(

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This wont even do 350fsb, im using bios 14, the chip is brand new, i got it rma'd as i thought my board killed it, my board has been rma'd too so it aint that, i'll be trying my brother's ram later and his psu.

It will be 100% stable with 350fsb but any more than that it will freeze on windows loading logo, tried with default voltages aswell as a bit extra for northbridge and southbridge and im using default 67%.

The board will let me do 450fsb with my e6400 (450*8), this is driving me round the bend as i cant find the component thats faulty or is it a setting in bios i need to change?

Someone give me the answer as i feel like trying to eat this cpu, its the bain of my life right now!
 
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1:1 so the ram is running underclocked aswell as the cpu.

i have to have a 120mm fan over the PWM as it gets VERY hot, its 66c under 100% load with 350*10 with the fan @ 1500rpm without the fan the board wouldnt even be able to do 350*6:(
 
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yeah im gunna try bios 16 later but its supposed to be worse for 65nm quads but might aswell try as this board should be able to do a min of 420fsb with 65nm quads which is why i bought the q6700 so that i could get around 4.2ghz ish with my watercooling.

350 is a joke:(

I'll let you guys know how i get on. What % for GTL should i use, its currently default 67%.
 
Could be the cpu and not the board or maybe both. My q6600 on my ABit pro doesn't like the 9 x multi. It will run stable at 8 x 475 but anything above 9 x 350 and it falls over no matter what settings I use. :confused:

I gave up on the 9 x multi and just concentrated on the maxxing out the 8 x multi. I must admit I never tried the 6x multi but you might try the 8x multi and see how it goes.

Of course if the 8 multi works then you have wasted your money buying a q6700 over a q6600. :(
 
Greebo said:
Could be the cpu and not the board or maybe both. My q6600 on my ABit pro doesn't like the 9 x multi. It will run stable at 8 x 475 but anything above 9 x 350 and it falls over no matter what settings I use. :confused:

I gave up on the 9 x multi and just concentrated on the maxxing out the 8 x multi. I must admit I never tried the 6x multi but you might try the 8x multi and see how it goes.

Of course if the 8 multi works then you have wasted your money buying a q6700 over a q6600. :(
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Sorry to hijack, Greebo, you have almost an identical setup to me, yet I cannot for the life of me get my CPU to clock any higher without windows failing to load! Any tips? Cheers!
 
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Sorry to hijack, Greebo, you have almost an identical setup to me, yet I cannot for the life of me get my CPU to clock any higher without windows failing to load! Any tips? Cheers!
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not really. I came from an AMD setup so I read the overclocking guides and some threads on here.

I tried the normal boot, test with prim95 for 15 minutes, if not stable up voltage by one notch, and retry however I hit a total block at around 3.2Ghz with the 9x multiplier. It didn't seem to matter how many volts I put through the cpu,nb,sb etc, it wouldnt boot into windows.

AT high frequencies, it wouldn't even boot into bios so I happened to try the 8x multiplier just to see if I could get a faster, stable system at 3.2Ghz and surprise, surprise and just kept going up from there! It kept needing regular boosts in cpu voltages and I made sure the nb had a couple of notches of voltage increase.

At 3.6 I have found a good balance between voltage and heat. Just to try, I left everything the same voltage setting wise and just dropped the fsb and upped the multi to 9 and it wound't boot even into bios so I guess my mobo or cpu really doesnt like the9x multi :confused:
 
clocka said:
This wont even do 350fsb, im using bios 14, the chip is brand new, i got it rma'd as i thought my board killed it, my board has been rma'd too so it aint that, i'll be trying my brother's ram later and his psu.

It will be 100% stable with 350fsb but any more than that it will freeze on windows loading logo, tried with default voltages aswell as a bit extra for northbridge and southbridge and im using default 67%.

The board will let me do 450fsb with my e6400 (450*8), this is driving me round the bend as i cant find the component thats faulty or is it a setting in bios i need to change?

Someone give me the answer as i feel like trying to eat this cpu, its the bain of my life right now!
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This sounds very similar to what's happening to me with the Q6600. Currently at 356x9 with 1.4750 set in the bios giving about 1.4 under load. This seems to be pretty stable. If i push for anything higher it fails prime in seconds or reboots. I have upped the vcore over 1.5 in the bios but it's not helping. I tried dropping the multi to x8 but it still won't let me increase the FSB.
I feel your pain clocka!! :(

Currently thinking of calling it a day at 3.2 and just trying to clock the memory. Anybody know what I should get out this Corsair stuff?
 
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halllllllelujah!!!!

I just flashed with bios 17 which has just been released, once flashed it says its bios 17 B05 in bios btw. I have now booted into windows with 460*6 with my q6700, prime95 has been running for 35mins too:) before i couldnt boot into bios with more than 360fsb and 360 was unstable, 350 was max stable before. maybe i might actually be able to do a proper overclock now like 4ghz ish with 440+ fsb. i had given up hope was gunna get a p45 board and hope that would fix the issue.

BIOS ID:17

1. Fixed 45nm CPU compatibility and support CPU half multiplier.
2. Fixed the Wake Up by WAKE# of PCIe function abnormality.
3. Fixed system hang when used Intel PXE CPU series.
4. Fixed CPU temperature abnormality when S3 return.
5. BIOS compiled date: 05/26/2008.
 
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