Q6600 first overclock noobie help

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Hi
Ran with my Q6600 in auto ever since I had it (years!)
Now I want to O/C, it is related to a poor WOW performance with a brand new 5850 card (replacing a 8800gts). I posted that in the Graphics card forum but people have suggested I should OC the CPU as WOW is more CPU intensive than GFX card.

Screenshots of AUTO settings

Wierdly, the Core speed starts at show 2400 then goes down to 1603 ??


Afraid I have no idea how to overclock safely, I am told I should be able to do 3ghz easy, I have looked on search and found some posts but none for my board and clear enough for me to be brave enough to make the changes.

Any links to this combo overclock or anyone here with same setup who can advise?
Many thanks

Board: Asus P5K Premium Black Pearl Edition

 

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Sorry if you think another popup thread, as I said, I searched and could not see one for my Mobo.
Afraid I need more step by step than generic statements like "400 x 9", I need to know what to change so I do not inadvertently blow something!

I have coretemps downloaded, at auto settings above I have between 38-40 for low and 43-49 for high

 

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My bits are;
Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - OEM
OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C5 Dual Channel Vista Gold Series DDR2 (OCZ2G8004GK)
Asus P5K Premium/WiFi-AP Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775)

PC been running for a while and my AUTO settings show temps low 39-42, high 40-43
After 29 mins Prime95 temps low 39-42, high 58-62
Will try pictures of BIOS on phone camera, my lad dropped our compact and it stopped working

 

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Tried to capture more infor for you, default BIOS display

Me changing settings, top part

Lower options, unchanged

Boot up with those settings;

CPUZ with that and PRIMe95 running;

CoreTemps after 10 mins running Prime at above settings

Prime95 output for that period
[Mar 19 18:15] Worker starting
[Mar 19 18:15] Setting affinity to run worker on logical CPU #3
[Mar 19 18:15] Beginning a continuous self-test to check your computer.
[Mar 19 18:15] Please read stress.txt. Choose Test/Stop to end this test.
[Mar 19 18:15] Test 1, 4000 Lucas-Lehmer iterations of M19922945 using FFT length 1024K.
[Mar 19 18:17] Test 2, 4000 Lucas-Lehmer iterations of M19922943 using FFT length 1024K.
[Mar 19 18:19] Test 3, 4000 Lucas-Lehmer iterations of M19374367 using FFT length 1024K.
[Mar 19 18:21] Test 4, 4000 Lucas-Lehmer iterations of M19174369 using FFT length 1024K.
[Mar 19 18:23] Test 5, 4000 Lucas-Lehmer iterations of M18874369 using FFT length 1024K.
[Mar 19 18:25] Test 6, 4000 Lucas-Lehmer iterations of M18874367 using FFT length 1024K.
[Mar 19 18:26] Torture Test completed 5 tests in 10 minutes - 0 errors, 0 warnings.
[Mar 19 18:26] Worker stopped.

 

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Set PCI-E freq to 100 now

Not installed the Asus stuff, will tomorrow.

Played wow tonight on the 3ghz setting, temps got to 59 according coretemp on the G15 display.

 

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Tied the 400x8, not had any kinda crashes but I notice the temps have reached 66c while playing wow full on.

What kind of temperate is too much?

I think the cpu O/C from 2.4g to 3g and now 3.2g has made a big difference to the FPS though, if the components can handle these settings long term.

 

[2Drunk2Funk]

Thanks for info Steve, will look to see what it updates. When it comes to BIOS I am usually in the camp "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". I will check it out though.
At the moment I have only changed a few settings and it seems to be stable @ 3.2 400x8 with temps under gaming at 62c max.
Using the CoreTemp prog which conveniently has G15 LCD support so I can monitor in game