How to overclock Q6600

lewism · 27 Dec 2011 at 21:34

Well the last time I stepped into the forray of overclocking was with my old barton 2500 XP. Below is my current setup. I'd like to get the most out of it. The cooler I have on it is the Tuniq Tower.

A basic how-to would be lovely. Is there anything I could do with the OCZ ram too? Or am I best to leave that as-is?

thezakarum · 27 Dec 2011 at 22:39

If I remember from when I had my q6600 I only had an Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro at the time but was able to achieve;

3Ghz with 333 fsb with a x9 multiplier on 1.3vcore.

and

3.2Ghz with 400 fsb with x8 multiplier on 1.32vcore.

And thats with a cheap £15 cooler.

If you want to go any higher than I would recommend a better cooler.*edit*
Just seen you're cooler and it seems to be pretty good.

You should easily be able to achieve 3.2Ghz I think with it.

Hope this helps.

thezakarum · 27 Dec 2011 at 22:42

Also I would leave the ram as is for now, you might need to adjust the fsb/memory ratio to try and get it as close to stock clocks as possible, just when you're sorting out the cpu overclock.

Someone esle can probably help you with overclocking your memory.

andy_mk3 · 27 Dec 2011 at 22:49

What motherboard to do have? This will play the biggest part in how far you can take the chip.

thezakarum · 27 Dec 2011 at 22:55

andy_mk3 said:
What motherboard to do have? This will play the biggest part in how far you can take the chip.

Oh yeah totally forgot about that. :confused:

I had the ASUS P5B Deluxe which probably helped me overclock a ton.

Hopefully he'll come back and reply... if not we know what happened.

lewism · 27 Dec 2011 at 22:59

Apologies, Motherboard is a Gigabyte X48-DQ6. I'm not really fussed with overclocking the RAM and would probably keep it close to stock, or a marginal overclock depending on how easy it is.

thezakarum · 27 Dec 2011 at 23:08

Phew,

The board you have seems to be a good quality mid-range board, should be able to handle an overclock quite well.

lewism · 27 Dec 2011 at 23:26

I take it it is just a case of going in to the bios. Upping the voltage to 1.4v and the modifying the fsb to suit?

Emjeadea · 27 Dec 2011 at 23:31

ive got one of these its clocked from 2.4ghz to 3.4ghz nut i couldnt tell you how its done as one of our fellow ocuk guys did it for me but i will be doing my own next time