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***The Official Q6600 Overclocking Thread ***

easyrider said:
mate I'm not going there.

I wasn't insulting you but your post was to general .

I have boosted both NB and SB vcore for low temps at 3.6ghz

you claim none of these values need changing for 4ghz?
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Claiming, no, giving a ballpark idea though.

Have only changed vcore on this mobo, no other voltage settings. Am trying 3.8 and I have still only changed vcore settings. I would imagine you might need to change something else at 4ghz but cooling/chip limits would be more of a problem at that speed and as I have not go there yet I couldn't say.

I was not talking about ram, etc thats something else.
 
lay-z-boy said:
Claiming, no, giving a ballpark idea though.

Have only changed vcore on this mobo, no other voltage settings. Am trying 3.8 and I have still only changed vcore settings. I would imagine you might need to change something else at 4ghz but cooling/chip limits would be more of a problem at that speed and as I have not go there yet I couldn't say.

I was not talking about ram, etc thats something else.
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show me then:)
 
lay-z-boy said:
1.41v, need to work on the memory as this stuff is made for 800, need to test to see how high it can go as the lowest divider is now over the rated speed.
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Ok we are getting closer to the truth.

1.39v is BS.

Mine passes that bench at 4ghz

Prime stable pls

Thats the key

Get your clock 8hrs prime stable...Just like I did @ 3.6ghz

if you get this data @ 3.8ghz I will be the first to congratulate you
 
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1.39v is not BS, end of story, think what you like.

Also, you are under water, I am using an air cooler with the fan turned down.

I'm off to bed for now but I don't think 3.8 prime is possible on normal air, the fact that i demand silence doesnt help but I will see.

Will change the ram to some old pc8000 patriot stuff and push on the cpu again. :)
 


Why does the quad core have so little advantage over a slower clocked dual-core? Is that just a GPU bottleneck then?

Maybe an RTS style game should show the power of quad a bit better or perhaps some benchies at a lower res where the GPU isn't gonna max.

There is such a price difference between a E6400 and a QX6850 you would expect to see something special from the *much* more expensive processor?
 
easyrider said:
add me to msn


in trust;)
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Cheers will do, off on my Stag Do for the weekend now though!

Got it sorted for the moment @ 3.6Ghz it would seem. Volts probably higher than I need at the moment, and that PWM temp just rockets away...:

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Rojin said:
Cheers will do, off on my Stag Do for the weekend now though!

Got it sorted for the moment @ 3.6Ghz it would seem. Volts probably higher than I need at the moment, and that PWM temp just rockets away...:

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I have a 120 MM Fan on a Zalman fan bracket hovering over the PWM
 
I'm stuck on my G0 Q6600 at 3.2Ghz. Can't get the bugger past that. Granted I'm a complete nub in this sort of thing though.

I'm at 355Mhz x9. 2:3 divider on my 1066Mhz Ballistix RAM. I've tried lowering the divider to 1:1 and the multi to x8, but still keeping the CPU at 3.2Ghz but to no avail. I get BSODs all the time and rarely get to boot into Windows.

I'm on an IP35-Pro, any ideas?

P.s. It's bad enough people posted ridiculously high res images, but there's no need to quote the damn things...
 
Looking good lazyboy, especially for air cooling. I personally find blend a better test rather than small fft's. Small fft's is cpu only wheres blend is more system orientated and therefore harder to pass as you are stressing the cache, memory, memory controller aswell as the cpu. Its all very well having a cpu that will do 4ghz small fft's but if the other components cant keep up its all a waste of time and effort imo - that is unless you also plan on running a blend test once you have found your cpu ceiling ;).
 
w3bbo said:
Looking good lazyboy, especially for air cooling. I personally find blend a better test rather than small fft's. Small fft's is cpu only wheres blend is more system orientated and therefore harder to pass as you are stressing the cache, memory, memory controller aswell as the cpu. Its all very well having a cpu that will do 4ghz small fft's but if the other components cant keep up its all a waste of time and effort imo - that is unless you also plan on running a blend test once you have found your cpu ceiling ;).
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Cheers, and yes I intend to blend after I find the max of each part. :)
 
Got my q6600G0 running at 3.6Ghz stable at last.
But...
It needs 1.575vcore:( After running just over 8 hours of prime (small ffts) the temps were 81-83-85-85:eek: Thats with a Zalmans 9700 on full blast(VERY LOUD!!!).
Lowered it to 403*8 now 3.24Ghz @ 1.425 around 60 at load.
How much better is a Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme compared to my zalmans 9700?
 
Q6600 Overclock

Hi there,

I thought I would share my settings with you!

Quad 6600 GO pack date 08/16/07
Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R
2GB Crucial 5300 (2.2v)
Thermalright 120 extreme with push pull Noctura 120mm 1200rpm fans
Noctura 120mm 1200rpm (front in-take & exhaust)
Thermalright NB cooler SLi
Bumped the northbridge & southbridge by 0.1v each
CPU volts 1.475 in bios
400X9 = 3600MHz
Idle 35.31.28.35 (but that can vary on room temp)
Load 58.55.57.57

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Many thanks for the detail

And if I may – welcome to the Forum.

Like many others I’m following this thread with keen interest - in my case not least in anticipation of a new build.

The detail you provide is very useful.
 
Bryston4bsst said:
Hi there,

I thought I would share my settings with you!

Quad 6600 GO pack date 08/16/07
Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R
2GB Crucial 5300 (2.2v)
Thermalright 120 extreme with push pull Noctura 120mm 1200rpm fans
Noctura 120mm 1200rpm (front in-take & exhaust)
Thermalright NB cooler SLi
Bumped the northbridge & southbridge by 0.1v each
CPU volts 1.475 in bios
400X9 = 3600MHz
Idle 35.31.28.35 (but that can vary on room temp)
Load 58.55.57.57
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Welcome to the forum.

Similar cooling to mine, what the temps like if you use small ffts?
 
I used the Blend test but i expect the small fft's to produce more heat.
Yesterday when testing different settings - my 3.4GHz @ 1.4v blended at 67C - since adding the 2 case fans @ 3.6GHz and 1.475 the temps are 58C.

That just shows how important case air-flow is I guess.....

What is yours running at fornowagain?
 
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