Overclocking a Q6600???

Sneblot

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Ok so I have just invested in a lovely little water cooling loop and would like to see how high I can get my Q6600 on the Asus P5Kc, I'm currently sat at 3.0Ghz quite contently but I would like to try and push it up to 4.0Ghz, or at least over 3.4Ghz. Now I'm a complete noob when it comes to OCing, and I don't quite understand the link between the CPU and the RAM if someone could help me out by pointing me to an artical which explains what I need to know or who have OC'ed a Q6600 on a P5Kc and might know the settings I need. I would find any help on the matter most kind.
 
I had my Q6600 running at 3.6Ghz perfectly stable on air cooling.
Unfortunately that was 3 years ago so I can't remember the settings I used.

When you overclock you up the FSB which means the ram is also pushed faster, quite often the ram can't handle it so you just use the divider settings in the bios so the ram stays within its rated speed. I am sure someone will be along to give you more details however it will help if you take a look at your bios and familiarise yourself with the options regarding ram speed and FSB etc.
 
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Sneblot said:
If you don't mind me asking, what us your vcore set to for 3.8?
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you are safe upto 1.5v, try 1.4v for now
just set the dram:fsb ratio to 1:1 for now, or manually set it to its stock speed.
eg 3.2ghz is 9 x 355 (fsb), so if your ram is rated at 800mhz, it is only running at 705mhz (ddr2 is 355 x 2), so its actually underclocked, but its not interfering with the cpu overclock.
once you get to your final cpu overclock, just go back and change the ram back to its stock speed

run Intel burn test for 20 passes between overclocks to make sure its stable.
max temp is 80.C
use either/and coretemp or realtemp for this

edit. also 4 sticks of ram is harder to get stable than just 2
also what cooler did you get?

here is a similar thread
http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=665529
or
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=16690787

edit2. just read your other post in a different thread, 1.55v is not safe for 24/7 use
 
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