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desperate help needed!!!! please :)

thedan55

thedan55

thedan55

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Hey lads i hope everyone had a brilliant xmas and is gong to have a good new year!!

ive recently got myself a new intel core2quad qx6700 extreme.

i bought it specifically because it was really cheap and a good overclocker and ive always wanted an extreme processor.

ive been overclocking this chip for the last 3 days and i just cant get a stable system to complete a prime95 test. the longest i ever got before a bsod on prime95 was test 6.

here are some of the results i came to that were kind of stable but wud fail in prime95

as its an asus maximus formula 2 its got loadsa settings. ive not changed all of them obviously

my fsb is 345 x 10x

CPU VCORE-1.33750
PLL V-1.53975
FSB TERMINATION/VTT- 1.31200
DRAM V- 1.86625

THIS CRASHED AT TEST 6 AND BSOD ON PRIME95

i then did a lot of reading then came to this point

CPU VCORE- 1.33750
FSB/VTT- 1.39150
NORTH BRIDGE CORE V- 1.41800

THIS LASTED FOR ABOUT 5MINS THEN BSOD'D ON ME :(

this is really stressing me out and i really wanted thid cpu to work well i feel really disappointed lol

any help will be greatly appreciated

kind regards
 
really??

at one time i did have a memmory problem and got the dimms replaced.

i shall test them on a stock setting using memtest??

that a good idea?
 
i also ran prime95 on stock settings and it ran fine. i had already done that just did it again to make sure.

anyone got any ideas?? or what settings i should try?
:(:(:confused:
 
hey lads a few questions.....

apart from the vcore what else is contributes to the cpu temps?
also in core temp the tjmax is 85c and my cpu hits 80 really quick wud i get a bsod at that point? like to prevent damge to the chip so it shuts itself down to protect itself?
 
hey lads i think ive finally got it stable.

one prob on idle my cpu is at like 37c as soon as prime95 starts stressing the cpu the temp shoots to 60 then climbs to 80c

i was thinkins about the corsair h50 all in one cooling kit to keep my system cool
 
how come you swapped for the other cpu?? brilliant advice mate!!

i cant change the multiplier on my board but i can change the fsb frequency. im on 3.5 with 10multi just cant get prime95 to run stable, either one core crashes or i get bsod :mad::mad:
 
i dont know theres no option in the bois to set the multi. its the asus maximus formula 2 that ive got. i went throuhg all the settings and couldnt find anything about the multi??? or am i missing something or is it called something else on my board?
 
i found the setting to set the multi, on my board its called "ratio cmon setting"

so ive set it to 12 with an fsb of 291 which gave me 3.51...ish

i run prime 95 and i get a bsod almost straightaway, here are my settings..

VCC- 1.39375
PLL- 1.57950
VTT-1.40475
DRAM V- 1.83975
NB CORE- 1.56375
SB 1.5V CORE- 1.57950
SB 1.1V CORE- 1.15300

Any of these look strange to you or have any changes or suggestions?? am going to run the custompc benchmarks and see if that finishes.
 
if the voltages are too high could that also cause a problem??

im going to restart from scratch again any overclock again bit by bit with the higher multi and see if i can get it stable lol
 
hey lads i bet your all sick of me by now lol

ive got my fsb at 266 and the multi at 12

these are my settings

vcc- 1.28125
vtt- 1.17950
nbc- 1.19275

windows boots up very fast but prime95 fails on core 3 every time! :eek::confused:

no matter what i try it keeps failing on core 3 sometimes core 2 i just dont know what to do now!!!
 
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