Overclocking Q6600 please help

[Turbulance]

Hello,

Recently I've found that my current system has started to struggle with modern games on top settings, so I have been trying to overclock it extend its useful life a bit longer. Unfortunateley I have only managed to get it to 3.2Ghz and it still seems quite unstable. Some games will run perfectly fine but others, such as World of Warcraft will crash the system in moments if I run it in dual screen and sometimes it will crash on single screen setup. I have a few screen shots of my current settings and was wondering if you guys could give me some advice please. The rig is about a year and a half old now I think most of the gear apart from the PSU was brought with the machine.

First though, my current setup is:

Intel Q6600 CPU
DFI Lan Party X48-T2RS Mobo
4Gb Corsair Dominator Memory
PC Power & Cooling 620w PSU
2x 150GB Raptors Raided together (OS+Games drive)
500Gb WD Caviar Black for storage
BFG 8800GTX 768Mb GPU

Screenshots of system setup in EVEREST(trial)edt:

p.s sorry about the image I've just quickly thrown it together

Any suggestions? Thanks

*edit* sorry I've posted this in the wrong forums

 

[Turbulance]

Sorry to bump an old thread but thanks for the replies, had some computer issues and not been back for a while. I will try increasing the vcore then and see what that does, very annoying that my computer crashes every few hours while playing DragonAgeOrigins. Yeah in the bios the reading is set to 400x8 and its still unstable

Justintime I will deffinetley take that into consideration, I have some money now and was thinking of just upgrading the whole thing, save the psu which is almost brand new and buying an i5 DDR3 system and a new graphics card. Any advice?

*edit*

Just remembered I didnt post up a cpu-z screenshot, nice program, seems to be far less bloated than Everest and free

BTW I increased the Voltage to 1.29v (+12.5% over), should this still be higher? Just dont fancy frying the chip for nothing




Thanks in advance

 

[Turbulance]

Thanks, I have just upped it to 1.35volts now, hopefully that will be enough juice for it. Will need to do some more testing, if its still crashing I may up it a bit again.

 

[Turbulance]

I didnt realise you needed to increase the voltage of the CPU so much especially as the main setting that is being changed is teh front side bus

 

[Turbulance]

Thanks for the advice Big.Wayne, Just had a quick look in the bios, but the sheer number of settings is overwhelming for my first 775 overclock. ANy chance you could point out what I should be altering please?

Thanks

Current Bios settings:

 

[Turbulance]

I've just had a mess coz I wasnt sure if it was right but if its wrong I can just pull the mobo battery out and start again. These are the new memory settings, I just wasnt sure if they were right because I remember reading somewhere that the memory ratio should be 1:1 for 2 sticks of memory.

New memory settings in cpuz rather than the bios:



Does this look better?

Thanks,

 

[Turbulance]

Sorry it was taken on my phone lol, Thanks for your help, gonna try and stress test this now see if its working OK

 

[Turbulance]

Done testing yet?

Sorry got carried away playing DAO, been playing it for nearly 6 hours straight and not a single crash yet I think its finally working properly, thanks mate!