Help me get my q6600 stable

[ih8modem]

I have a Q6600 (G0) and I juts cannot get it above 2.95 stable.

I have set the voltage to 1.325, then 1.331 - it boots fine, I can surf fine, but as soon as I load the chip properly the entire machine reboots.

Dare I push more volts?

The RAM is 4GB if XMS2 6400 Corsair, currently at
1.9v and 822MHz - this couldn't be the problem could it?

 

[ih8modem]

Doh forgot mobo spcs, its a Gigabyte P965 DS3 - when I bought it - was supposed to be a pretty good clocker with solid caps et al.

Thanks for the advice, will pump 1.3375 to cpu and 2.0 to RAM and test again.

 

[ih8modem]

Ahhhhhh.... if it is a P965 and a an early Rev1 / 2.0 then you are going to top out about 3Ghz (9 x 333Mhz) as the board just can't handle high FSB with a Quad.

Rev 1.0 - Guess this is the problem then.

I really should spring for a new decent board, but the hassle of re-installing XP (OEM version) and Vista (also OEM) just pains me greatly. Guess I will live with 3.00 if I can get it stable. Currently quite stable on 2.962.

Testing using super-pi mostly (4 instances of 32M - it never completes when I go above 2.97 (FSB 329 seems to be my max)