need help increasing Q6600 OC

sw1ft said:
2 sticks and retry is going to be my method I think, when putting the other 2 sticks back are the only changes I'll need to make the DRAM voltage and the NB voltage, or are there other things affected?
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From memory and it's been a while you should only be changing NB voltage when adding additional sticks.
 
Ok cool, I will aim for 3.4 I think, might be wishful!

Temps are fine, got a huge 612s cooler in there with all case fans on max as well, quiet doesn't bother me. On max volts (1.5) I saw 62c but avg was below 60, so I should be ok there.

I'll aim for a stable 3.4 on 2 sticks then add the other 2 and up the NB volts with loose timings, then I can slowly tighten them to try and get optimum performance. Does that sound about right? Or would I be better off just sticking with what I've worked up so far and tweak it?
 
I think you can add +.1to+.2 to your NB voltage without issue, I've had mine at +.1 for 2 years and only have two sticks, probably doesn't need it though. 1.3250 is a pretty horrible VID it's quite unlucky. 3.2GHz should make you happy on a chip like that.

Instead of using 400x8 use 360x9, the lower clock should help make it more stable and the difference shouldn't be too noticable.

Mine is:

360x9
1.4V in BIOS
PCI Frequency 100
ram is actually on auto but your should be at 2.0 or whichever is 360MHz, use stock voltage and timings for ram first

Mine is 1.288VID and I struggle to get stable at 3.4 and 3.6 on my board.
 
Maybe for the sanity of myself and my girlfriend I'll throw the above settings at it, optimise the voltages and the ram, check my gpu clock and then stress the lot overnight, 12 hours and I'll call it a day and play some games haha.

Hopefully the planned 3570k build should be a better clocker!
 
4GHz it says, but that website is terrible it seems. Upload to Tinypic? :)

I'm planning 3570K build too. 4GHz+ is normal on those things. Think I've chosen that chip and the UDH5 Gigabyte board... it's cheap somewhere.

Also, since mine has vid of 1.288 and yours 1.32 maybe at the extra 4 and make it 1.44 in bios. You can lower it later.
 
Sorry about that guys.

Here's my 24/7 bios settings for 3600MHz....only vcore and NB increase required to attain 4GHz from these settings.

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Look at the VID. I doubt that is prime stable either. There were only a few within the quadcore DB that could get prime 95 stable under water, W3bbo was king back then.
 
BrianB said:
Nice one :) is it P95 stable? What temps do you get and what cooler?
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TRUE rev b with 18v 120mm fan pulling from chilled air induction. Temps vary depending on weather outside but 21c idle/45c full load is common now, lower in winter.

1kiwi said:
Look at the VID. I doubt that is prime stable either. There were only a few within the quadcore DB that could get prime 95 stable under water, W3bbo was king back then.
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Never tested prime in my life. IBT (10 loops of) is enough for my purposes. I only encode video/play BFBC2/BF3 on this pc, which is nowhere near stressful enough.
 
Oh it's over 1.5v. Mines at 1.504V right now, but loading it drops to 1.488v...my board doesn't seem to volt well. Off to stress test... already idling 9c higher from my 3.2 to this 3.6. Doesn't seem worth it.
 
MOFO64 said:
TRUE rev b with 18v 120mm fan pulling from chilled air induction. Temps vary depending on weather outside but 21c idle/45c full load is common now, lower in winter.



Never tested prime in my life. IBT (10 loops of) is enough for my purposes. I only encode video/play BFBC2/BF3 on this pc, which is nowhere near stressful enough.
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You never had any random crashes during gameplay then?
 
really nice man, congrats on the clock!

unfortunately I don't think my chip/board is gonna like those settings at all, lower VID and only 3 DIMMs but it's nice to see people can get smashing clocks, even if I can't!

I'm using similar NB, FSB and CPU PLLL voltages, for example, but i'm not stable at 3.2 (with vcore being the only difference) so I don't see it happening for me which sucks.
 
BrianB said:
You never had any random crashes during gameplay then?
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I've had maybe 20 BSOD's in the three years I've owned this pc......the majority of which stem from the old "Display adapter has stopped responding and has been recovered" issue in win7/win8 DP. Actual ingame crashes are very rare. Every few weeks there'll be an unexplained issue but looking at the BF3 community that's actually quite good, lol.
 
Ok so I tried some tweaks with 2 sticks of RAM last night, no dice, exactly the same level of instability, but after a few hours of tweaking I've managed to get 3.2 (400x8) 8 hours prime stable with 10 passes of IBT as well, I think for my sanity, that will do me.

cheers for all the help
 
Nice one swift. MOFO, do you have any details of the chilled air induction system you are using? I'm interested now lol
 
3.2 at 400MHz is pretty good. I wish I could get mine stable at 400 3.2 doesn't matter how many volts I put in I think it's the FSB wall on my motherboard. 1440MHz FSB is pretty much all I can get with 1.344v and ram tightened up slightly, still fast enough for all my games though.

LOL. Just thought I'd lower my voltage to try and get lower temps. It's booted and stress testing at 1.264V under load volts at 3.2GHz so far so good. Bit weird that it's running lower than VID. Ram is undervolted too. Think this chip could fly if I had a better board. Wanna swap? ^^

Hmmmm as new P5Q Deluxe about £50.... hmmmm lol. NVM that would be backwards as it uses DDR2 too much hassle.

Just to let you know, I have upped my voltage so it drops to 1.280V under load, it's prime stable but not IBT stable.
 
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