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generic q6600 overclocking question #1

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yes yes - i jumped on the bandwagon [albeit 6months late]

what point do you need to raise the vcore on a q6600

also with it being quad - will i need to up my ram/nb volt a bit more than what i used with my dual core?
 
You only up the volts when it starts to fail to boot or crashes under windows, for me i had to up the volts to get over 3ghz, but no two chips are the same.
 
Some need more voltage at 2.6ghz, some godly chips get to 3.2ghz undervolted. Nobody can tell you an answer here, just raise it when its unstable/wont boot.
 
Pneumonic said:
L737B i believe you have (sure I read that somewhere) which is one of the top 2 batches produced
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Just checked the number of my Q6600 : L737B440 ... this chip runs 3.2Gig @ 1.2250 Vid plus plenty of Vdroop so it is undervolted a bit plus it can get to 4GHz on air ... must be at least saintly!
 
Mine will do 3ghz on stock voltage of 1.2750, but i skipped on up to 3.4ghz on 1.41250 which ive now got down to 1.3750. Batch no L 803a746.
 
cheers for that guys
just clocked it up to 3ghz on stock for the time being
30'c across all cores
so im happy with that until the tim cures then i will give it some more


my system is running a hell of a lot better now
the e6300 was good but i was struggling to get it past 3.3GHz stable - i know i have a lot more headroom now

thanks to admiral huddy - those results were really helpful
 
I want to coverlock my chip and my worry is that it will corrupt my install of windows if i get it wrong, is there any truth in what i have heard? :confused:
 
I have seen it corrupt it before but it recovered without a re-install. I was pushing an E6300 to 3.3Ghz at the time, it was happy at 3.2Ghz though.
 
unless you are running some huge clock on auto settings which would be unlikely you have nothing to worry about... as admiral Huddy says locking the PCI bus to 100/101mhz will stop your HDD being "overclocked" if they use that bus (some boards yes some no seems to be the general concensous)... even if you keep it unlocked 99% of HDD should cope fine with anything up to around 112mhz on the PCI bus with no issues..

Have seen benching done with the PCI Bus @ 140/150mhz with no HDD coruption so really is a bit hit and miss...
 
Thanks for the advice guys, I will try and get 3ghz stable on it and will lock the pci bus to 100 or 101 MHz. Will there be any difference between locking it at 100 or 101MHz?

And should I leave all the ram settings to auto?
 
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