just oced q6600, not a good idea

[Vir]

Yeah just go in steps and make sure you understand the FSB:RAM ratio thingy and 4x1gb is a bit hard on the memory controller, specially when overclocking so you might want to up the MCH voltage a bit aswell... also make sure your voltage for your ram is set correctly.

Make sure you understand the settings and read overclocking sticky's and threads. There are a lot of options and if one is set incorrectly the system might become unstable. Just do some reading and try and understand what you are doing instead of wacking it at 3.6Ghz with stuff on automatic, that just DOES NOT WORK

 

[-iceblade^]

don't jump straight in... walk your chip and your ram through it... and if you don't know what you're doing, then don't mess about - read up first: there's a whole lot of damage you can do to your system with just a few button presses

 

[nightmare99]

What ram/board & cooling does he have?

 

[gurusan]

I've always beleived in the reverse policy - start high at 4.5Ghz and max voltage in bios and work down gradually until my pc boots.

Then work down futher until it plays one of my games without crashing for ten minutes.

Ignore all the temp monitoring stuff, it either works or it doesn't in my book!

Tongue firmly in cheek with the above

That's pretty much how I do it as well, I just choose the max voltage I'm comfortable with and something like 500fsb...then just work back from there until its stable. Then once it's stable I start knocking the voltage down to see where the sweet spot is.

Going the other direction is too slow, IMO.

 

[Cew27]

well i just stuck it to 1333 fsb and x8 multiplier at 1.35 v im now running prime 95 )although i don't quite know how to use it) i just started the torture test and ill see if i get any blue screens after half an hour