I've read through the 'Beginners Guide to Overclocking' and another guide but I'm thoroughly confused.
Here's an image of my computer, running Vista x64.
I've overclocked my Q6600 to 310x9, couldn't find where to turn speedstepping off, but read that it doesn't really matter anyway. The processor idles at 39-43.
I ran the Prime95 program and choose small FFT, left it for 10-15 minutes. As of writing this they haven't increased. Here's the results
Anyway question time. (Sorry)
I have a Tuniq Tower with Arctic Silver 5, probably incorrectly seated due to the awkwardness of the Gigabyte X38 DS4 motherboard and the two case fans the Akasa Eclipse 62 came with. Are those temps indicating it's seated wrong? Too high? A friend on mine has the same processor @ 3.07ghz on air, and afaik the cooler isn't very good.
How is RAM related to the CPU when overclocking, and how do I go about overclocking it(In the BIOS there were some weird options several A, B, C and D's with 200-400 next to them.)
Voltages, I gave up here vDroop? VDrop? What? I haven't touched any of them in BIOS, just left them on whatever they were.
I'd like to go to 3ghz but don't know if it's safe to go any further, should I buy new/more case fans and reseat the CPU? I don't think I have any Arctic Silver left, only the stuff the heatsink came with.
Don't shout at me, and thanks
Here's an image of my computer, running Vista x64.
I've overclocked my Q6600 to 310x9, couldn't find where to turn speedstepping off, but read that it doesn't really matter anyway. The processor idles at 39-43.
I ran the Prime95 program and choose small FFT, left it for 10-15 minutes. As of writing this they haven't increased. Here's the results
Anyway question time. (Sorry)
I have a Tuniq Tower with Arctic Silver 5, probably incorrectly seated due to the awkwardness of the Gigabyte X38 DS4 motherboard and the two case fans the Akasa Eclipse 62 came with. Are those temps indicating it's seated wrong? Too high? A friend on mine has the same processor @ 3.07ghz on air, and afaik the cooler isn't very good.
How is RAM related to the CPU when overclocking, and how do I go about overclocking it(In the BIOS there were some weird options several A, B, C and D's with 200-400 next to them.)
Voltages, I gave up here vDroop? VDrop? What? I haven't touched any of them in BIOS, just left them on whatever they were.
I'd like to go to 3ghz but don't know if it's safe to go any further, should I buy new/more case fans and reseat the CPU? I don't think I have any Arctic Silver left, only the stuff the heatsink came with.
Don't shout at me, and thanks
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