OCinng then going back to stock. unstable?

eyetrip · 7 Dec 2007 at 09:06

Well, I have my lovely little G0 Q6600, and have been running it at 3.2, even though it goes up to 3.6 qutie happily. Last night I jsut started wondering if there really was any need to be OCing just yet, so decided would put i back to stock and see if it felt slower.

Thing is, it was a nightmare getting it stable again at stock settings. Had to keep changing voltage, specifying FSB manually, and finally thought I had it all runnig ok, but when I loaded up a game, within minutes it reset itself.

Now, I am sure I will get it runnign fine at stock again, but has anybody else had this kind of problem. I remember my e4300 doing some similar stuff in the past.

Also, is there really any point to OCing these things yet? Even when encoding I have not noticed anywhere near 100% on all cores. So is it best to leave it stock til there is a need to OC?

weescott · 7 Dec 2007 at 09:18

Are you questioning the need to overclock? :eek:

bannage!

Overclocking can lead to the chip needing above stock voltage to operate at stock clocks after a period of time. I wouldn't expect it with such a small overclock though. Have you tried running the chip after clearing the CMOS?

eyetrip · 7 Dec 2007 at 09:29

Nah, was late last night when I tried going back to stock. Had thought about clearing cmos, but was just too tired to be messing on inside pc.

And yes, am questioning the need for OCing

, but also whether or not there is a noticeable difference on the quads between OC and stock.

prescott28 · 7 Dec 2007 at 11:14

I am interested in this point as well, ffallic. I have the 2.4Ghs quad processor and mover the multiplier up 1, x8 to x9 for 3Ghs and it runs pretty well. I haven't needed to change anything else. Benchmarking gets better scores too but you are right I think. Normal things I do, databases, word processing as well as games run fine at stock speed. I ahve moved up last week from dual core Athlon 3800+ to this Intel chip as well as an 8800GT so everyt6hing seems fast and so on now.

perhaps the think to do it go back to stock and overclock when have got used to the much better performance of the Intel Chip.