My Q6600 core speed is showing as 1600Mhz when idle

aeropars · 6 Mar 2008 at 18:41

Hi guys,

I was just about to start looking at overclocking my Q6600 and was familiarising myself with some of the applications you guys use to overclock and I notice that CoreTemp is showing my frequency as 1600 (266.67 x 6.0)

I have a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L and I have switched off what i thought was the right setting in the bios to stop this from happening but it still persists. I'm using Vista x64

any ideas?

Lee

aeropars · 6 Mar 2008 at 21:10

Thanks for the help guys.

I only want to go upto 3ghz really so would I still need to set the VCORE to 1.45?

My cooling should be able to cope so i;ve been told by a member on here when i bought the cooler.

Also, my leadtek card has overclocking software for XP. Is there any way to overclock my card in Vista?

aeropars · 7 Mar 2008 at 08:37

Will I need to down the memory settings to cope with the upped FSB? I'm still learning about this clocking business and finding it quite confusing

And how much does clocking decrease the life of a processor?

aeropars · 7 Mar 2008 at 12:12

Inazuma said:
This is quite funny. You want to turn off Speedstep but can't, while I want to turn it on but can't because it stops me from booting.

Really?? How odd! I hope intel are not doing a microsoft and forcing us to use something.