P5Q-E or P5k Premium Black Pearl

martziniuk

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I have a P5K premium Black prearl coming for SWMBO, is it worth swapping for my P5Q-E to try reach 4ghz on my Q6600?
I suppose I'm asking which is the best overclocking board?
 
Stick with the P5QE, its a more modern board than the p5k, will probably clock a bit better as well. However, 4ghz on a q6600 is pretty hard to achieve, there are a few on here who have done it though.
 
Hmm the max anyone has managed to get with a vid like mine (1.3125v) is 3.6ghz which is what I'm at so it doesn't look like I can get much more :(
 
When I had my P5Q-E I had a Q6700 and was only about to reach 3.8Ghz with that, so I guess 4Ghz on a Q6600 is a tall order.
 
I have had the P5K-e wi-fi AP, 4Ghz was easy enough to break on a Q6600 G0

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=698967

But My brother got himself a P5Q Deluxe and I gave him my Q6600 he shot it all the way to 4.4 GHz with ease.

But if I was to buy a motherboard to clock a Q6600 now it would without a doubt be a GA-EP45-UD3P

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1359324

But if its a either a P5K or a P5Q, the easy choice is the P5Q

This is my 1st post here but I will be back, I have a summer hobby of downhill mountain biking and my winter hobby is overclocking, winter is coming so time to think about selling the bike :)
 
redshadows their ideal clocks since you need to pump a load of voltage for a q6600 too unless you have extreme cooling or going to a suicide run.
 
mjones1 said:
redshadows their ideal clocks since you need to pump a load of voltage for a q6600 too unless you have extreme cooling or going to a suicide run.
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I know the second link was Extreme cooling but my link is suicide, water cooled with RAD 360 push / pulling in air from a direct outside source during Scottish winter, thats why I leave the clocking till winter :)

I was running 24/7 @ 4Ghz temps somewhere around 49 degrees , 1.5v, load. Last winter was really good clocking weather

This winter I will mostly be clocking a 1055t if I can raise the cash.

But I have a few old processors that I will be kicking the teeth out of as well.

All 775 socket so as well as the AM3 socket I will be needing I will be having me a P5Q premium if I can find one.

But OcUK has a deluxe I will be buying if I cant, before anyone says "just get the deluxe" I have a fully wired network and the 4 Ethernet makes sense to my situation in the long run.
 
So what is a safe vcore on water? I have only gone to 1.437v iirc to get the 3.6ghz. I did try around 1.5v and got to 3.8ghz but it wasn't stable, think I need to look into north bridge volts?
 
martziniuk said:
So what is a safe vcore on water? I have only gone to 1.437v iirc to get the 3.6ghz. I did try around 1.5v and got to 3.8ghz but it wasn't stable, think I need to look into north bridge volts?
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I would say 1.5v on water, my brother who is a little more daring runs the volts at 1.6v 24/7 for 4ghz on the chip I ran 1.5v 24/7 for the same speed but he cant find stable at 1.5v.

That being said he runs much the same set up I do with water but he does it all year round.

my water is a OCZ hydro with washer trick, a d5 and a black ice 360 push-pull with loons, direct from a big hole in my wall. The vid on the chip was 1.225

Now mind my brother is using the P5Q i was using a P5K

My NB volts was 1.4v but cooled with a XSPC single bay and a generic 120 rad on the same loop as my Graphics card (not overclocked 24/7 so didnt really care it was more for noise reduction), a guess re-seating the NB heat-sink with IC diamond and sticking a little fan on it would be more than enough though
 
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With my old 1.2750 vid chip, the best i managed was 3.8ghz on air, needed just over 1.5 vcore and a lapped cpu and TRUE combo, ran it like this for a good while before selling the cpu.
 
setter said:
With my old 1.2750 vid chip, the best i managed was 3.8ghz on air, needed just over 1.5 vcore and a lapped cpu and TRUE combo, ran it like this for a good while before selling the cpu.
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Need to say I always meant to lap that chip, might beg it back from my bro just to lap it and see what I can come up with.
 
Prior to lapping and using 1500 rpm fans i was hitting 81-81-72-72 in p95, not good. After lapping and switching to sharkoon silent eagle 2000's i got it down to 68-68-62-62. apped both the chip and cooler to 2000 grade grit.
 
setter said:
Prior to lapping and using 1500 rpm fans i was hitting 81-81-72-72 in p95, not good. After lapping and switching to sharkoon silent eagle 2000's i got it down to 68-68-62-62. apped both the chip and cooler to 2000 grade grit.
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My waterblock was machined to a (hate to use this word) almost perfect level, its just the chip I would be doing, I lapped a PD 805 and a TT Heat sink back in the day and dropped 12 degrees right off the bat.

How do those sharkoon perform noise wise? I dont mind all that much cos headphone are used but the missus hates my PC being noisy
 
They are pretty loud at full pelt, but at that time i had them on a fan controller for normal usage.
 
I took my Q6600 up 3.8ghz stable tonight but needed 1.5v. 3.9ghz is a no as it shuts down and I daren't go over 1.5v even on water unless someone who knows says it's ok :)
 
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