NEWBIE @ HELP! overclocking Q6600 with GA-EP45-UD3P

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Q6600mt

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Hi all!!

Im new to this forum and i'm new to overclocking. I need some help/advice to overclock my system to 3.2ghz or 3.4ghz with stable rates and stable temps. PLEASE HELP! :)

my specs are:

Intel Quad Q6600
Noctua NH-U12P CPU Cooler
Artic Silver 5 Thermal Compound
Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P P45 (BIOS updated - F6)
Corsair 4GB DDR2 XMS2 Dominator PC2-8500C5
Gainward ATi Radeon HD 4870 X2 GLH 2048MB
Samsung 750GB SATA-II 32MB Cache
Sony NEC Optiarc Lightscribe ReWriter
Thermal Tough Power 1200watts PSU
Vista Home Premium 32-Bit

I know only a litte about overclocking the Q6600 from reading forums and reviews etc but i'm not going to attemp doing so, incase i might burn something out or damage any of the componants :P

So could someone please help me overclock this beast with some helpful guildelines and exact figures i need to input in BIOS.

THANKS DUDES!!

DT
 
Unfortunately hardly anyone has overclocked on this board, and as each motherboard reacts differently, each chip differently etc, its all about working it out for yourself as to what works with YOUR setup, but others experience does help!

I would try checking the settings for a EP45-DS3R as a starting point. Most bios's are very similar, and then tweek yourself.

Good luck
 
Phunky Phish said:
Unfortunately hardly anyone has overclocked on this board, and as each motherboard reacts differently, each chip differently etc, its all about working it out for yourself as to what works with YOUR setup, but others experience does help!

I would try checking the settings for a EP45-DS3R as a starting point. Most bios's are very similar, and then tweek yourself.

Good luck
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Agreed.

However, with the rest of your kit, 3.6Ghz should be well within reach. Its just the board thats a bit of an unknown quantity.

Start by locking your RAM to 1066MHz, set PCI to 101 and then keep pushing the FSB up in 5 - 10 MHz increments.

Report your findings here and I'm sure we'll all do our best to help ;)
 
I clocked my CPU to 3.4 on my Abit IP35 without any trouble with 425fsb and 8x multi. Hoping with faster Ram now will be able to get up to 450->475 fsb with an 8x multi would be a real improvement.

Only problem I have is the Gigabyte Bios is a lot more complex than the Abit :)

So will read up on the DS3's official threads to see if that can help me understand the bios some more!!
 
hi all can i just jump in on this thread too as i have the same mobo, ok well i just tried to o/c first tried 3ghz as that is what i got with old m/b, but wouldnt boot so dropped to 2.6 booted fine, in windows says its still @2.4, so i just d/l cpu z that says core speed 1.740mhz until i do something then jumps up to 2609mhz, so i take it this is working at 2.6 then, so i will now try to go up further what other things will i need to change just the v core up a bit and the memory multiplyer lowered i think is this right
 
ok got 2.85 working couldnt get 2.9 to boot, how far can i put up the vcore, i only went up 1 notch, dont want to go too far and kill everything
 
Right, I am going to try to clock this back to 3.4 as I had with my Abit IP-35, and hopefully beat it!

Currently everything is std, idle is 30c and load 43c.
Ambient is around 20c but cannot test this!

Oh, just run SuperPi that I have and 1m calcs take 39.250s!
 
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Booted in @ 350fsb 1.325vCore 8xmulti
Booted in to vista @ 380fsb 1.325vCore 8xmulti (3.04Ghz) SuperPi 1m 33.634s
Booted in to vista @ 400fsb 1.325vCore 8xmulti (3.20Ghz) SuperPi 1M 32.136s
Needed to up my vCore to move forward
Booted in to vista @ 420fsb 1.3812vCore 8xmulti (3.36Ghz) SuperPi 1m 31.949s Idle temp now circa 37c
More vCore needed to move forward! I have pushed the vCore to what I ran on my IP35 and see how far it will go! Then work back
Booted in to vista @ 440fsb 1.4687vCore 8xmulti (3.52Ghz) SuperPi 1m 31.902s Idle temp now circa 40c

Really struggling to get past 440fsb. Going to start dropping vCore to see what ends up stable. Got my ram on MCH latch 333Mhz and 2.4B multi. Upped MCH vCore to 1.2v. Anyone got any ideas?
 
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