My Q6600 seems slow - help please

[SexyGreyFox]

I may build 100's of systems but I leave them all at stock and nobody has ever complained about speed.
However, a few months ago I built my new system with a Q6600 and to be honest I wasn't impressed.
I've only just decided to look into it and looking at some peoples speeds mine seems way low.
All I want is stock speed or maybe you think I could shove it to 3ghz with no problems.
Any advice appreciated.

 

[MeatLoaf]

Looks like you have speedstep enabled as its only running at 1600Mhz instead of 2400.

 

[RJC]

You have speedstep enabled, it lowers the multiplier when idle and raises when stressed.

You can disable this in the BIOS, but I have kept mine enabled and runing at 3.0ghz without problems.

Rob

 

[Bony Maloney]

Run prime95 and then check back in Cpu-z and you should be at full speed then System throttles when not under load.

 

[Marse]

.......All I want is stock speed or maybe you think I could shove it to 3ghz with no problems...

With a Gigabyte P35C DS3R MB you should be able to overclcock up to 3 GHz and somewhat higher although a stock cooler and case ventilation could be a limiting factor.

I assume you have PC6400 Ram so all being well it should be fairly straightforward.

A significant speed increase should be possible for no extra cost although if you exceed the recommended voltage for the CPU I think you will technically have invalidated the warranty.

You should still however get a decent overclock without exceeding the recommended voltage.

 

[SexyGreyFox]

I went back to my BIOS but I can't find a parameter for Speedstep

However, I loaded optimal values and that increased my multiplier to 9.

 

[Mint_Sauce]

It might not be called speedstep on your mobo. It may be called something like EIST Function or C1E Function, turn these off.

 

[SexyGreyFox]

It might not be called speedstep on your mobo. It may be called something like EIST Function or C1E Function, turn these off.

Its called EIST but it was disabled.

 

[Cob]

Nah you need to disable both C1E and EIST in the Gigabyte BIOS's.

 

[SexyGreyFox]

Nah you need to disable both C1E and EIST in the Gigabyte BIOS's.

What a last hour thats been.

I disabled both of those then turned my CIA2 parameter onto Cruise which is a 5% increase.
I've had to re-install NOD, my soundcard and Microsoft Outlook

I've now gone back to optimised defaults which is now on a multiplier of 9 instead of the 6 I had and it is a lot faster now.
I'll have to read the guides unless someone wants to give me advise for a really easy small overclock.
Take it easy because the last thing I overclocked was an AMD 486DX100 which I got up to 120 by moving a jumper on the motherboard.

 

[Bony Maloney]

Here's a great guide dmpoole http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17612922

 

[SexyGreyFox]

Here's a great guide dmpoole http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17612922

I read through that but I was hoping someone would say - turn that to so much and that to so much and you should reach 3 ghz without any problems

 

[Bony Maloney]

That's the way if you want a stable overclock Set your ram to 1:1 so that you can alter your FSB independently of the ram.

 

[jabski]

you need to change the fsb to get to 3ghz. Also might need some vcore

 

[Marse]

I posted on this thread

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=10424915#post10424915

It may help you to get a better idea of what things look like with my MB which is the P35 DS3R.

Edit: Don't forget to press Ctrl+F1 to get the additional options which you need to set in the BIOS.
The Vcore values are for my chip - you could well need less for a given speed but you could quite likely need more.