Further to a recent thread of mine about Q6600 VIDs and not being able to get my Q6600 with a VID of 1.325 above 3.4ghz, i today replaced it with one with a VID of 1.285.
I had been running the previous Q6600 at 425 x 8 giving me the 3.4. On swapping the processor i upped it to 450 x 8 and it boots no problem at all (the other Q6600 wouldnt even POST at this), and gives me the magical 3.6 i have been after.
However, after a couple of minutes of using CPU stability tester, which maxes all 4 cores, the cpu throttles back to 2.7ghz (450 x 6).
This is not good. The multiplier is set to 8x manual, so there is no speedstep option in the BIOS. It must be something else. Temps are arround 55c under load. VCORE is 1.45, i have done the pencil mod, and this shows as 1.440 even under load in CPU-Z.
Please can anybody tell me why this is happening, and can i stop it???
Q6600 (watercooled)
Asus P5KC
Thermaltake VE2000
4 x Corsair XMS2 1GB 6400 (running at 900mhz) 5-5-5-12 2.10v
Nvidia 9800GTX
I had been running the previous Q6600 at 425 x 8 giving me the 3.4. On swapping the processor i upped it to 450 x 8 and it boots no problem at all (the other Q6600 wouldnt even POST at this), and gives me the magical 3.6 i have been after.
However, after a couple of minutes of using CPU stability tester, which maxes all 4 cores, the cpu throttles back to 2.7ghz (450 x 6).
This is not good. The multiplier is set to 8x manual, so there is no speedstep option in the BIOS. It must be something else. Temps are arround 55c under load. VCORE is 1.45, i have done the pencil mod, and this shows as 1.440 even under load in CPU-Z.
Please can anybody tell me why this is happening, and can i stop it???
Q6600 (watercooled)
Asus P5KC
Thermaltake VE2000
4 x Corsair XMS2 1GB 6400 (running at 900mhz) 5-5-5-12 2.10v
Nvidia 9800GTX