Newbie question - Q6600

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I think you may need to clear Bios by removing CMOS battery for 1-2 mins.

i'm able to access the bios after a couple trys, couldn't I just go into it and set default bios options?

 

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at the moment this seems all too much hassle lol, idk if I wanna continue. I was able to get a somewhat stable 3000MHz this morning.

 

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I think it disabling it ensures that your cpu multi stays constant at 9 and that it doesn't constrain your cpu from using it's maximum potential when running prime, IBT etc as it is a power saving feature.

Oh i've disabled all of them things already. the intel thing doesnt do that.

 

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You could but the fact that you can't seem to save manual settings and that bios throws up default settings seems to suggest there is conflict going on between default settings and manual settings. I could be wrong but I think this is what it is. Sometimes removing CMOS battery helps with this problem.

Let me restart and check.

 

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Perhaps prime stable but you only ran it for 40mins. IBT will decimate your overclock if your settings aren't stable and as you BSOD anyway, this suggests that your cpu is only stable for booting up so far at 3GHz.

I could give you suggestions for running IBT more accurately but your cpu may fail on the first run in under 1 mins

Ok i've took out the battery and reset, everything seems to be fine now i'm back at stock 2400MHz. Just a lot of my icons in the taskbar aren't showing now lol. Infact it seems they aren't icons just spaces o.0.

Here is that intel speed thingy:

 

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Fixed the icon problem, just killed explorer.exe and restarted it.

 

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It seems that you can only choose those ram speeds of 554,667 or 887MHz when your FSB is 333MHz. Try changing FSB value and you should see a change in those ram speeds accordingly.

I suspect that in your case Strap FSB to MCH is the speed of your northbridge and those values of 800MHZ,1333MHz, 1600MHz are quad pumped ie 800MHz = 200MHz, 1333MHz = 333MHz and 1600MHz = 400MHz. So these values won't change and have no effect on the ram speed.

So if you increase FSB to say around 400MHz then you will need to choose 'strap fsb to mch' value of 1600MHz which would mean that your northbridge P43 is running at 400MHz and thus able to keep up with higher FSBs and provide greater stability. I get similar option aswell in my mobo bios.

Also your vdrop is pretty bad if bios voltage value is 1.35v but idle voltage is 1.28/1.296v. This means that load voltage will be even lower. Do you have load line calibration option (LLC) in your bios?

I see. I have no clue if I have a LLC in my BIOS. I'm deciding that I may just say stuff OC'n and set my ram to 1066MHz, isn't worth the hassle at the moment lol. Could you guide me on how to set the ram with no problems?

 

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Since stock FSB is 266MHz, go to DRAM Frequency option again and see what three ram speeds you get. Report back.

Although 533MHz (DDR2 1066MHz) won't be of any benefit since FSB 266MHz is slower than 533MHz, so ram will be faster than cpu in sending and receiving data.

 

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Just choose 533MHz and up the DRAM voltage to 2.0/2.1v and be done with it. Although it would have been satisfying if you managed to stable overclock to 3.0GHz but nvm.

Yea, I still wanna do it but then again I dont wanna mess around again. Was pretty excited if it did work lol xD.

 

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brb going to set the ram.

 

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I think the BIOS hates me, just constant restarts again. I'm just going to leave it now... can't be asked to mess around and break another computer somehow lol.