What next to OC my Q6600 ?

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Been having a quick play around with a Q6600. Now Ive not had a desktop for years, been using laptops so my last experiance of a desktop was running AMD of which Im pretty sure was an A64 3500+ !

So Ive knocked together a cheap intel based machine to have a play around with with these specs.

Q6600 G0
Corsair H50
Asus P5Q
2x2 Kingston PC 8500 HyperX
nVidia 8800 640 GTS
Antec 1200
Antec 850w PSU

Having no idea about overclocking anymore, and even less with Intel I've bodged up the FSB to 333 and tweaked the voltage a little to get it stable, just been running prime95 for the last 3 hours.



Ive no idea whether the temps / voltage is exceptable or something to worry about but Im sure there is plenty more I can get out of the chip. At idle, its running at 40 as I type this and at 54/55 after 3 hours of prime.

I guess Im asking advice on what my next step should be.
 
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if you have any thermal paste laying around and yoou havent replaced it do this. should allow you to get a better overclock then with a hicher BCLK as it is more stable (old paste isnt as effective)
 
Use speedfan to monitor the individual core temperatures.

Coretemp and Realtemp wrongly assume TJmax is 100°C, while Speedfan correctly sets 90°C for the Q6600.

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According to that screenie, you are running very low vcore!! What is the VID of that chip? Use CoreTemp to see it.

Otherwise, you should be good for 3.6 I would imagine with that combo, just a matter of tweaking the volts etc.

If you post a few pics of your current bios screens I will try to help you tweak it.
 
Looks ok so far, as Diggsy suggests, check the vid with coretemp, aside from vcore youll have to play about with the chipset voltages on the p5q, max reccomended limits are.

pll, 1.6
fsb-term, 1.4
nb, 1.4

Theyre great boards for clocking the q6600 on, had 3.8ghz from a q6600 on the deluxe version of the p5q.
 
Superb stuff, will have a fiddle with a few of the suggestions :D

Not got around to replacing the original paste on the H50 yet as I couldn't be arsed to go down to the garage and get it :D Hoping that may lower some temps a bit.
 
Was more than that in the bios, that was set at 1.26.

Just tried sticking a bit more juice through it and ramping it upto 400 fsb and it crapped out :D. Currently having a bash at 8x400 using 1.31 vcore in the bios, 1.28 according to core temp. Just running it through prime at 3.2 and see what that brings :D
 
You should be able to whack the volts up a fair bit more. Mine needs 1.52 bios (1.42 after vdroop) for 3.6. Yours may need a lot less though, but they tend to tolerate voltage fairly well.
 
Not too eager to shove too much through it until I get rid of the shipped thermal paste on the H50 and replace it with something decent. Just ran prime for 30 minutes and all seems good at 3.2. Will just grab a screeny in a sec.

*Edit Screenies load / idle*





Think I'll give it another hour or 2 prime tomorrow just to be sure, but I think 30 minutes should show any big issues within that time.
 
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Mr Paul said:
Use speedfan to monitor the individual core temperatures.

Coretemp and Realtemp wrongly assume TJmax is 100°C, while Speedfan correctly sets 90°C for the Q6600.

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Thanks for this..... Speedfan says my Q6600 is idle at 25 deg where coretemp is 35 deg.

I can only seem to get mine to 3.0 ghz anything after that it blue screens. I think it may be my board holding it back from what I have read about them.
 
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Paste that comes stock on the H50 isn't all that bad and 60C isnt bad can't you run 400fsb 9.0 multi for 3.6Ghz allmost all G0 do that.
 
Slipperz said:
Thanks for this..... Speedfan says my Q6600 is idle at 25 deg where coretemp is 35 deg.

I can only seem to get mine to 3.0 ghz anything after that it blue screens. I think it may be my board holding it back from what I have read about them.
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I have the same board and a recently bought Q6600 - its currently at 3.2 at 1.3v (1.25v in windows) it can be done :cool:
 
toM123 said:
I have the same board and a recently bought Q6600 - its currently at 3.2 at 1.3v (1.25v in windows) it can be done :cool:
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Out of curiousity, what are your settings if you wouldn't mind? Especially the MCH, FSB overvoltage ones down the bottom of the screen. I know it is different on each board but just to give me an insight!!!

Thanks

Slipperz :)
 
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