Hi All
I recently put a Q6600 SLACR into my system to replace my trusty old E6400.
It was running fine at stock for a day or so, so I decided to see what kind of O/C I could get, having heard good things about these procs. I first tried 400x8 (Which was no problem at all for my E6400 on stock volts) and it wouldn't get past POST.
So when it rebooted with BIOS defaults, I upped the VCore to 1.4v but it still wouldn't play ball, nor at 1.45v.
I really didn't wan't to go any higher than that, so I tried 375x8 (3GHz) with 1.4v and that seemed to run OK.
One thing I noticed when running, was that it droops badly. 1.4v in BIOS was giving my something like 1.344v in CPU-Z when idle and dropped to 1.328v when running Prime95.
I ended up leaving it for a couple of days running at 2.8Ghz (8x350) on stock volts and this ran OK. Last night, the system had a complete freeze while playing a game.
I had to cycle the power and was in windows when it froze again, so I set the system back to stock.
Either I have the worst clocking Q6600 SLACR in the world (It's VID is 1.3125v, so not a great start) or something else isn't playing ball, here is a detailed rundown of what I have -
Mobo - Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6 rev 1 - BIOS F12
RAM - 4x1GB OCZ PC6400 Platinum Rev 2 running at 2.0v presently.
GFX - XFX 8800GTX Extreme running at stock speed.
CPU - Q6600 SLACR OEM with VID of 1.3125v
HSF - Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro
PSU - Gigabyte ODIN Pro 550w
Temps - approx 42 idle and mid/upper 50's under Prime95
Does anyone have a theory as to why I can't even post at 400FSB with 1.45vcore.
I was thinking that maybe, with the extra burden of four cores, I might need to increase the voltages elsewhere.
Cheers for any help that you might be able to offer.
JudgeC
I recently put a Q6600 SLACR into my system to replace my trusty old E6400.
It was running fine at stock for a day or so, so I decided to see what kind of O/C I could get, having heard good things about these procs. I first tried 400x8 (Which was no problem at all for my E6400 on stock volts) and it wouldn't get past POST.
So when it rebooted with BIOS defaults, I upped the VCore to 1.4v but it still wouldn't play ball, nor at 1.45v.
I really didn't wan't to go any higher than that, so I tried 375x8 (3GHz) with 1.4v and that seemed to run OK.
One thing I noticed when running, was that it droops badly. 1.4v in BIOS was giving my something like 1.344v in CPU-Z when idle and dropped to 1.328v when running Prime95.
I ended up leaving it for a couple of days running at 2.8Ghz (8x350) on stock volts and this ran OK. Last night, the system had a complete freeze while playing a game.
I had to cycle the power and was in windows when it froze again, so I set the system back to stock.
Either I have the worst clocking Q6600 SLACR in the world (It's VID is 1.3125v, so not a great start) or something else isn't playing ball, here is a detailed rundown of what I have -
Mobo - Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6 rev 1 - BIOS F12
RAM - 4x1GB OCZ PC6400 Platinum Rev 2 running at 2.0v presently.
GFX - XFX 8800GTX Extreme running at stock speed.
CPU - Q6600 SLACR OEM with VID of 1.3125v
HSF - Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro
PSU - Gigabyte ODIN Pro 550w
Temps - approx 42 idle and mid/upper 50's under Prime95
Does anyone have a theory as to why I can't even post at 400FSB with 1.45vcore.
I was thinking that maybe, with the extra burden of four cores, I might need to increase the voltages elsewhere.
Cheers for any help that you might be able to offer.
JudgeC
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