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Help me get my q6600 stable

ih8modem

ih8modem

ih8modem

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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?

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CPU prolly just needs more volts.

And the mem will prolly need more volts also if you are overclocking it (2.1V should be fine, don't go over that tho).
 
Try to set your ram at 1:1 and raise voltage to 2.0, and up vCore to 1.3375, that's what I used to run @ 3Ghz (48h prime stable). Depends on your mobo though, it was a P5W DH.
 
tbh u would need some voltage through ure chip. The q6600s can handle 1.5v voltage for everyday use. Using this much voltage will also mean u can get a higher clock , but then that depends on ure ram timings and the capability of ure mobo.
 
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.
 
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.
 
HeX said:
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.
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yeh ure right. tbh if u want to achieve a better clock i would look into getting a better board, maybe x38 chipset ?
 
HeX said:
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.
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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)
 
HeX said:
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.
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I've got my P965 running at 400 x 8, vcore 1.3 in BIOS, RAM at 1.9 (+0.1), rock stable as I primed it for a couple of hours so it might be worth making the jump from 333 to 400 and see what happens.
 
IAmATeaf said:
I've got my P965 running at 400 x 8, vcore 1.3 in BIOS, RAM at 1.9 (+0.1), rock stable as I primed it for a couple of hours so it might be worth making the jump from 333 to 400 and see what happens.
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One of the lucky ones then, I had 2 x P965 DS3 rev1's and neither would do over 333Mhz with a Quad, I could get into windows at 400 but it'd fall over *** second I did anything stressful on the CPU, no matter the volts.


Same with a friends DS4 Rev2.
 
HeX said:
One of the lucky ones then, I had 2 x P965 DS3 rev1's and neither would do over 333Mhz with a Quad, I could get into windows at 400 but it'd fall over *** second I did anything stressful on the CPU, no matter the volts.


Same with a friends DS4 Rev2.
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Blimey didn't realise that, I've had the mobo up to around 425-430 but needed lots of volts on the quad to get it stable so I've settled on 400 - for the time being :)
 
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