Hi guys. Hoping someone can help here! I'm pretty new to Overclocking things so don't go too nerdy on me 
When I originally bought my machine, it was overclocked from 2.4ghz to 3ghz. One fine morning, I was half asleep and somehow managed to undo the overclocked settings and returned to default. As I didn't have the faintest clue how to overclock it again, it's been running at 2.4ghz for a long time now. Recently I started looking back into it and wondered if I could try to get it back to 3ghz again. I read on various forums other people's settings with the same processor+mobo combo and I tried the following to get to 3ghz again:
FSB: 1333
DRAM: Stock 800 (memory unlinked)
MULTIPLIER: x9
VCORE: 1.36v
DRAM: 2.110v
HT: 1.36
NB: 1.36
SB: 1.5
After putting these settings in, I've been running the machine gaming quite happily for about 3 days without issues except for this morning playing WoW it black screened and restarted. However, an interesting thing to note is that I also lowered my fans to medium speed this morning as they're quite noisy in my Antec1200 case.
Obviously random restarts are bad, and I'm wondering if it could be because I lowered the fans down, or because my voltages are too low? or too high? In CPU-Z for example it says my core voltage is 1.312v so would that be too low? or does it have the vdroop thing I've vaguely read about as I set it to 1.36 vcore in the bios? should I set that higher to give it more juice? 1.4v+ vcore?
I've attached some pics using Speedfan,Realtemp and CPU-Z.
Also here are my system specs:
Antec 1200 case
Thermaltake Toughpower 700W PSU
Samsung 1TB Serial ATA II 32MB cache
ASUS P5N-D Mobo
Intel Core?2 Quad Q6600 G0 Quad Core 4x2.4GHz 8MB
Coolermaster Hyper TX2 Fan
Corsair XMS2 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 800MHz
BFG NVidia GeForce GTX 280 OC 1GB
Windows Vista SP1 Home Premium (32-bit)
I have a few friends telling me the G0 version (which I seem to have) of the q6600 can attain 3.6ghz, but I'm not sure if that's possible on my motherboard?
Basically I'm hoping someone can look at my settings and make sure I'm along the right lines here, my temps are around 30 degrees atm just browsing websites (according to Realtemp) - (Speedfan says my cores around more close to 20c) and according to Realtemp, after playing a game for a few hours I get just under 50c (Speedfan is probably 40c I'd imagine).
Ok I tried a few other settings including upping the fsb to 1400, see if I could get 3.2ghz, trying with an x8 multiplier aswell, seems I'm capped at 3Ghz as nothing seemed to change. Sticking with that now, here are my new settings:
FSB: 1333
DRAM: 1000 mhz (Linked + Auto Ratio).
MULTIPLIER: x9
VCORE: 1.40v
VID: 1.3250v
DRAM: 1.91v
HT: 1.40
NB: 1.40
SB: 1.50
How does this look?
I'm just confused with what to do with my ram now.. it's default speed is 800mhz, will it be ok to run at 1000? as I'm doing now with it linked? should I change the ratio to something else? or keep unlinked with default speed of 800mhz? would I also need to increase the DRAM voltage 1.9v to 2.1 perhaps? also how is my vcore? should I keep dropping that down until I get a bsod? or is it ok where it is (higher than the VID) ?
My Windows Vista Experience Index Score always had a subscore of 5.4 for my ram, (everything else on 5.9) now it's running at 1000, I'm getting a score of 5.7.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, and apologies for my rambling!
Thanks in advance, here are the pics:
When I originally bought my machine, it was overclocked from 2.4ghz to 3ghz. One fine morning, I was half asleep and somehow managed to undo the overclocked settings and returned to default. As I didn't have the faintest clue how to overclock it again, it's been running at 2.4ghz for a long time now. Recently I started looking back into it and wondered if I could try to get it back to 3ghz again. I read on various forums other people's settings with the same processor+mobo combo and I tried the following to get to 3ghz again:
FSB: 1333
DRAM: Stock 800 (memory unlinked)
MULTIPLIER: x9
VCORE: 1.36v
DRAM: 2.110v
HT: 1.36
NB: 1.36
SB: 1.5
After putting these settings in, I've been running the machine gaming quite happily for about 3 days without issues except for this morning playing WoW it black screened and restarted. However, an interesting thing to note is that I also lowered my fans to medium speed this morning as they're quite noisy in my Antec1200 case.
Obviously random restarts are bad, and I'm wondering if it could be because I lowered the fans down, or because my voltages are too low? or too high? In CPU-Z for example it says my core voltage is 1.312v so would that be too low? or does it have the vdroop thing I've vaguely read about as I set it to 1.36 vcore in the bios? should I set that higher to give it more juice? 1.4v+ vcore?
I've attached some pics using Speedfan,Realtemp and CPU-Z.
Also here are my system specs:
Antec 1200 case
Thermaltake Toughpower 700W PSU
Samsung 1TB Serial ATA II 32MB cache
ASUS P5N-D Mobo
Intel Core?2 Quad Q6600 G0 Quad Core 4x2.4GHz 8MB
Coolermaster Hyper TX2 Fan
Corsair XMS2 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 800MHz
BFG NVidia GeForce GTX 280 OC 1GB
Windows Vista SP1 Home Premium (32-bit)
I have a few friends telling me the G0 version (which I seem to have) of the q6600 can attain 3.6ghz, but I'm not sure if that's possible on my motherboard?
Basically I'm hoping someone can look at my settings and make sure I'm along the right lines here, my temps are around 30 degrees atm just browsing websites (according to Realtemp) - (Speedfan says my cores around more close to 20c) and according to Realtemp, after playing a game for a few hours I get just under 50c (Speedfan is probably 40c I'd imagine).
Ok I tried a few other settings including upping the fsb to 1400, see if I could get 3.2ghz, trying with an x8 multiplier aswell, seems I'm capped at 3Ghz as nothing seemed to change. Sticking with that now, here are my new settings:
FSB: 1333
DRAM: 1000 mhz (Linked + Auto Ratio).
MULTIPLIER: x9
VCORE: 1.40v
VID: 1.3250v
DRAM: 1.91v
HT: 1.40
NB: 1.40
SB: 1.50
How does this look?
I'm just confused with what to do with my ram now.. it's default speed is 800mhz, will it be ok to run at 1000? as I'm doing now with it linked? should I change the ratio to something else? or keep unlinked with default speed of 800mhz? would I also need to increase the DRAM voltage 1.9v to 2.1 perhaps? also how is my vcore? should I keep dropping that down until I get a bsod? or is it ok where it is (higher than the VID) ?
My Windows Vista Experience Index Score always had a subscore of 5.4 for my ram, (everything else on 5.9) now it's running at 1000, I'm getting a score of 5.7.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, and apologies for my rambling!
Thanks in advance, here are the pics:
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