Decided to have a go at overclocking my q6600 earlier (go stepping vid 1.2750) disabled all the neccesary thermal and spread spectrum settings, set memory clock mode to unlinked and upped the fsb to give a frequency of 3ghz (vcore of 1.325) saved to cmos. on reboot i just get to the screen where it asks if you want to start windows normally or safe mode etc. thought it might have been a voltage problem so i rebooted and tried vcore on auto but got as far as the xp load bar screen before the pc froze. could this possibly be a bios issue as im still on ver p26 which is quite old now.
cant get my q6600 to oc
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try and do it in steps instead of going straight in.
are all of the other voltages at auto? is the memory at the correct voltage?
did you trying upping anything else? (northbridge perhaps)
680 boards are meant to be pants for overclocking aren't they though?
are all of the other voltages at auto? is the memory at the correct voltage?
did you trying upping anything else? (northbridge perhaps)
680 boards are meant to be pants for overclocking aren't they though?
the only voltage ive set manually was for the memory 2.1v im running 4 memory dimms so am i right in thinking that ill need to raise the nforce spp voltage as well or is it nforce mcp. as far as the 680i theyre definitely not the best, with my previous e6600 @3.6 ghz i needed 1.525 vcore to get it stable and the north/south bridge on them gets seriously warm unless you redo the thermal paste on them
There not pants at all, just not as good as current intel chipsets. Many people managed 3.6GHz+ on unmodded 680i boards.
For the eVGA 680i A1 board you really should be running the P32 Bios, quad overclocking was improved with later bios's.
Voltages may not be the issue in this instance. You may have hit an FSB hole, try and post for higher speeds or temporarily bump down the multi and see if you can find the hole, something later bios's should have sorted out.
thanks for the advice, ill flash to p32, should have done it ages ago but never got round to it (sort of if it aint broke dont fix it attitude) i currently dont have a floppy drive, so what method would you reccomend. cd iso or from within windows once again thanks.
all sorted took the plunge and updated from within windows, (bios flashing virgin here
) all seems well apart from 1 brown trouser moment, turns out it was my netgear wireless router, it has a habit of dying now and again causing the system to freeze.
) all seems well apart from 1 brown trouser moment, turns out it was my netgear wireless router, it has a habit of dying now and again causing the system to freeze.seem to be getting somewhere now, 3.0ghz 1.3 vcore set in bios, 1.264 in cpuz dropping to 1.232 under load using prime 95 small fft test for 15 mins temps per core. core 0 56, core 1 55, core 2 50, core 3 51. using an arctic freezer 7 pro at 70% speed. would it be possible to drop the cpu voltage down a notch to help decrease temps.
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Glad you getting somewhere
I see far too many people trying to further their quad overclock by ramping up the voltages on these 680i boards when voltages are rarely the problem.
They take a little bit of tweaking and a little bit of testing different QDR frequencies, but when you test them for long enough you start to work out what mem and fsb values will and won’t work. Or if you’re lucky enough you get a bios update that irons all those little issues out. I spent a good while testing on the old 6 series boards and got some great results when many people gave up and just went round slating them.
Be patient and methodical and you will get results, thats how I play it
netgear = pure evil
I see far too many people trying to further their quad overclock by ramping up the voltages on these 680i boards when voltages are rarely the problem.
They take a little bit of tweaking and a little bit of testing different QDR frequencies, but when you test them for long enough you start to work out what mem and fsb values will and won’t work. Or if you’re lucky enough you get a bios update that irons all those little issues out. I spent a good while testing on the old 6 series boards and got some great results when many people gave up and just went round slating them.
Be patient and methodical and you will get results, thats how I play it
netgear = pure evil
the p32 bios has worked wonders hesky, tested with 3dmo6, score of 15213. my previous best was 14997 with an e6600 @3.7 and 512 gts @795/1095/2039. regarding the 680 boards ive been quite lucky with mine. the nb/sb used to run a bit warm, but i replaced the stock paste on those and the mosfetts wih as ceramique which helped a lot. ill probably run prime95 to test long term stability of this oc tomorrow, ill be replacing the freezer pro with a TRUE 120 so if all is ok ill gradually clock the cpu a bit higher. again thanks for the advice and inputGlad you getting somewhere
I see far too many people trying to further their quad overclock by ramping up the voltages on these 680i boards when voltages are rarely the problem.
They take a little bit of tweaking and a little bit of testing different QDR frequencies, but when you test them for long enough you start to work out what mem and fsb values will and won’t work. Or if you’re lucky enough you get a bios update that irons all those little issues out. I spent a good while testing on the old 6 series boards and got some great results when many people gave up and just went round slating them.
Be patient and methodical and you will get results, thats how I play it
netgear = pure evil
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