Asus p5k premium motherboard q6600

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Hi everyone, I have an asus p5k premium motherboard running a q6600. Would like to overclock it but have no idea. Is it easy to do? Anyone have a step by step guide. My motherboard does have an auto overclocking feature in the bios setting called AI N.O.S which I enabled but as soon as i reboot it freezes at the windows 10 logo screen. Maybe a bios update is needed.

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I've clicked on the link mine is the p5k premium motherboard black Pearl edition . And I struggled to understand it all in that link. My specs are Q6600 . 8gig ram. Windows 10. Psu 600. Was hoping I could find the exact settings somewhere to overclock to just 3ghz. Or should I just play it safe and upgrade to the q9650?
 
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I've clicked on the link mine is the p5k premium motherboard black Pearl edition . And I struggled to understand it all in that link. My specs are Q6600 . 8gig ram. Windows 10. Psu 600. Was hoping I could find the exact settings somewhere to overclock to just 3ghz. Or should I just play it safe and upgrade to the q9650?

If you don't want to overclock you could also try a xeon E5450 @ 3ghz and do the 771 to 775 mod on it. Very easy mod to do and cheaper than a Q9650.
loads of easy to follow tutorials about on how to do the mod.
 
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Xeon E5450? Easy to mod ? Also will i need a bios update which contain some codes for this to work? Anyone know how I can get this? Mine is currently at 702 version and the latest one for my board is 1101.
 
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Pretty much slap the FSB to 400, multi to 8x, bung 1.35V VCore as a starting point, and set your memory ratio to whatever it needs to be to hit 800MHz (assuming you're using 800MHz DDR2) for 3.2GHz.

Alternatively FSB to 333, multi to 9x, 1.3V Vcore for an easy 3GHz.
 
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Pretty much slap the FSB to 400, multi to 8x, bung 1.35V VCore as a starting point, and set your memory ratio to whatever it needs to be to hit 800MHz (assuming you're using 800MHz DDR2) for 3.2GHz.

Alternatively FSB to 333, multi to 9x, 1.3V Vcore for an easy 3GHz.

Thanks so for 3ghz I only have to change 3 settings as above? What about the 8gig pc6400 ocz ram, how do I know what it needs to hit? What heatsink would i need?
 
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If you don't want to overclock you could also try a xeon E5450 @ 3ghz and do the 771 to 775 mod on it. Very easy mod to do and cheaper than a Q9650.
loads of easy to follow tutorials about on how to do the mod.

Xeon E5450? Easy to mod ? Also will i need a bios update which contain some codes for this to work? Anyone know how I can get this? Mine is currently at 504 version and the latest one for my board is 1101.
 
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Xeon E5450? Easy to mod ? Also will i need a bios update which contain some codes for this to work? Anyone know how I can get this? Mine is currently at 504 version and the latest one for my board is 1101.

Very easy to mod. You may not need the bios update, and if you do, it may be that someone has already added the microcode to it to just download.

https://www.delidded.com/lga-771-to-775-adapter/
 
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So I've just updated my bios from version 504 to 1101 my my asus p5k premium motherboard .can anyone tell give me the exact bios settings to overclock my q6600 to 3ghz please? I've watched lots of videos but none for my motherboard .
 
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Try to talk with her, be good you know? like, don't push her at max the first day, if is the first time, you MUST be carefull, pushing a little, keep it a little while, then push a little more, and keep it, you know?

Be gentle.
 
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So I finally updated my bios on my p5k premium motherboard and replaced the cpu with the q9650. Anyone know the bios settings to overclock it with 8gig ram?
 
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