Old q6600 and new q6600

[DarkWhisper]

Can anyone clear something up for me. my mates just bought the same cpu as me. and ask me to show him some overclock on it as he got the same mb as me. i was only able to get 3.6ghz. before it blue screened on me. whats going on as i have had 4ghz out mine but staying at 3.6ghz for gaming. Ive left it at the crazy setting 3.5ghz on his for him.his got ram 2.g 1066mhz.

 

[setter]

No two systems will clock exactly the same, different voltage requirements, cooling etc will all come into play, your mates q6600 could be one of the later manufactured chips, which in general dont seem to clock as well, low vid cpus tend to overclock higher, requiring less volts to do so, the higher vid q6600's (1.3250 is highest iirc) generally tend to be worse clockers.

 

[DarkWhisper]

setter how you finding the 9550?

 

[setter]

Its a cracking cpu mate, prior to it i ran a q6600 at 3.8ghz, switched to the q9550 to try one out, runs a lot cooler than the old cpu. No difference in games really but encoding is a bit nippier.

 

[DarkWhisper]

ya am thinking of getting one, as i can get it for 170 the 9650 which was the other one a was looking at is 260. but am hoping to hit 4ghz from the 9550

 

[setter]

The q9550 should do 4ghz with relative ease, a good motherboard certainly helps such as a p45 chipset board, the q9650 is a great cpu as well but still pretty expensive.

 

[DarkWhisper]

am on the x38 mb max form se

 

[Greebo]

am on the x38 mb max form se

You'll struggle to get a stable fsb above 440 with the x38 chipset and a q9550/q9650 so you'll only get to 3.75Ghz with a q9550.

You might get lucky but it's hard,hard work and some x38 boards will not go past that fsb wall whereas there are lots of p35/p45 boards which will do 500+ with the q9xxx cpus.

Just noticed you have the maximus SE which is the board I had and it just wouldn't go above 440fsb. I played around for two weeks with gtl refs, different bioses, altering all the mobo voltages to no avail before giving in.

 

[DarkWhisper]

my q6600 was stable for about half hour before blue screen on 4ghz so ive stuck to 3.6

 

[Rroff]

A lot of the recent Q6600 won't go much above 3.3gig tops, I've heard the Q6700 batches are good atm tho.

Also could be RAM or motherboard topping out and limiting the OC if its different.

I used to get 4gig on a P45 board with mine easy but on the 750i its on now I can't get much over 3gig unless I voltmod the motherboard and even then I only get it to 3.6gig with a ton of vcore.