First ever overclock - Q6600

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So I've never overclocked, and after reading a thousand reviews (or more!) I reckoned that the Q6600 had to be my weapon of choice! After nearly 15 hours of banging my head against a wall I finally got around the TRAP 00000006 errors (that were making me nearly cry), and I am now playing around with a BIOS with the intentions to OC for the first time!

I had one little go at upping the FSB a bit, to 355 I think, and upped VCore just a touch (almost nothing really, from 1.3 to about 1.325) and it worked!

PerformanceTest 6.1 gave me a result of 1360 @ 2840 MHz!

As a side note, what the frell is VTT? Also. my RAM speed naturally goes up as I increase my FSB. Should I be controlling this somehow? I think its gone from about 1333 to 1560ish.

Anywho, I then tried upping the FSB to 375 and upping the multiplier to 9 - it crashed. I increased the VCore to 1.35, and it still crashed. As this is a brand new computer I couldn't make myself force any more, so I brought the FSB down to 340, and it ran!

PerformanceTest 6.1 gave me a result of 1384@ 3060 MHz.

Not exactly a huge improvement, but I'm sure I'll work on it. At all times I monitored my Temps. Core 2 got to 46C for a split second, the other cores max was about 40, and this was under some stress. They normally idle at 38-37-31-33, which I'm pretty happy with.
 
Clock it straight to 400 x 9 and it should see 3600mhz, most do easly volts are probably safe up to 1.45 on air with a decent cooler.

You may have to put your ram on a divider and disable all that intel speedstep and cool and quiet stuff.

What type of ram do you have, i.e the speed of it ?
 
DDR3 1333MHz OCZ Gold (might be platinum, not sure) - using an Akasa Freezer Pro 7 so should be okay in that regard.
 
As yorkshire Padd said you need to adjust your RAM settings, at default it is linked to your FSB, you can either unlink it if your BIOS allows, or just adjust it down, you should aim to keep it at or below 1333 whilst OC'ing your CPU, then when you've reached your max CPU OC, if you want you can try and take the RAM up, but definately keep it low whilst OC'ing your CPU. You should post up what MB (and hence BIOS) you have, that way someone with the same one can give you any specific pointers re OC'ing. Good luck
 
I have the GA-EP45T-UD3P (yes, the best M/B ever made, I know ;) Just installed EasyTune 6 and tried playing with that. It got much better 'claims' than me, though I'm not sure I trust it just yet. On 'Level 1' it gave me;

3.20 Ghz, 1600FSB, and looked after my RAM for me. Managed Prime95 for an hour stably, barely breaching 45C. Not yet tried some of the higher levels, being my Ma's birthday today I have been a bit busy!
 
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