Q6600 Overclocking Help

Guys, for some reason, I dont have the option to control memory divider/ ratio, I can only control the Memory Frequency after setting the FSB, now, the issue with this is that after setting my fsb to 333, the options on memory frequency are Auto, 833mhz, 1033mhz, 1333 mhz. My ram is ddr2 667mhz! how could i possibly overclock it to 833mhz.

My mobo is decent, Asus p5qpl-am.

Not sure why those are my only options on the memory frequency settings, would putting it on auto be an option?
 
Dirty-Blade said:
Guys, for some reason, I dont have the option to control memory divider/ ratio, I can only control the Memory Frequency after setting the FSB, now, the issue with this is that after setting my fsb to 333, the options on memory frequency are Auto, 833mhz, 1033mhz, 1333 mhz. My ram is ddr2 667mhz! how could i possibly overclock it to 833mhz.

My mobo is decent, Asus p5qpl-am.

Not sure why those are my only options on the memory frequency settings, would putting it on auto be an option?
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Q6600 to 3ghz made easy

We could go into all the calculations,rip our hair our or follow this guidline for asus boards I stumbled upon. Works rock solid on a stock intel cooler too. Idle temps are around 39c total on the whole cpu.Per core values were quite variant,noticed 3&4 ran coolest. But here's the quick way to get it to 3ghz, assuming you have a G0 cpu,the b3 not sure but more tahn likely will work. Set all oc settings to manual in bios, unlink the ram from the cpu fsb. This is very important if you run kingston value ram or the sort,they don't like too much juice or fsb. Set the vcore to 1.3v, DRam to 1.85(lowest on an asus), set the HT to 1.3v, NB 1.34,SB, 1.5. Turn off all power saving features c1e,thermal throttling,all of it. We're overclocker's,as such have a tool like Aida to keep an eye on temps,just in case. Set the cpu to 333x9,since it's now unlinked,the ram will stay at 800. Save & exit, there's the 3ghz,no problems for 2 weeks on a stock intel cooler. I didn't like the idle temp at 39c & all the fan work in the world didn't lower it, so I dug out my zalman reserator 1 plus liquid cooler from an amd I oc'ed a few years ago. Dropped the temp to 23c idle,36c under 100% load. Each core reads slightly different but much more consistent across the board. I noticed the cores running hotter on the stock air was due to the heatsink having either uneven pressure or just that far out in lap. With the zalman & it's giant gold plated contact,huge difference! It was stable on the stock airflow,just wanted better. Asus boards lately have a big vdroop,so in bios it says 1.85v to the ram in aida it says 1.80,same with other voltages,might seem high in bios but not in other utilites. I cross checked the voltages & temps with speed fan & some other stuff around to verify I was getting the right read. I thought it was the mating of an intel cpu with an nvidia based chipset, no just the way asus runs these days. I'm using the p5n-d, q6600 [email protected], 8gb kingston value ram @ 800mhz 6-6-6-31(default timing). I dunno why it goes from spec of 16 to 31,but it works fine,leave it be!! I tried changing it to the factory 16 & it was not stable. If you have basically stock ram, just unlink it,apply those voltages, set the cpu fsb to 333x9, done deal! I had the liquid cooler from before so, it cost me over $300 new,if you want lower temps just buy a decent aftermarket air cooler. Don't try to go higher than 3 on this cpu without good cooling & better ram,waste of time & possibly a board. :D
 
Aida report

Quick report.
--------[ AIDA64 Extreme Edition ]--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Version AIDA64 v1.20.1150
Benchmark Module 2.6.328-x64
Homepage http://www.aida64.com/
Report Type Quick Report
Computer MAIN-PC
Generator Main
Operating System Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 6.1.7600 (Win7 RTM)
Date 2010-12-20
Time 22:58


--------[ Sensor ]------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Sensor Properties:
Sensor Type ITE IT8718F (ISA 290h)
GPU Sensor Type Diode (ATI-Diode)
Motherboard Name Asus P5N-D
Chassis Intrusion Detected No

Temperatures:
Motherboard 33 °C (91 °F)
CPU 29 °C (84 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #1 26 °C (79 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #2 25 °C (77 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #3 22 °C (72 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #4 22 °C (72 °F)
GPU Diode (DispIO) 42 °C (108 °F)
GPU Diode (MemIO) 42 °C (108 °F)
GPU Diode (Shader) 44 °C (111 °F)
WDC WD3200AAKS-75L9A0 32 °C (90 °F)

Cooling Fans:
Chassis #2 6027 RPM
Power Supply 4167 RPM
GPU 100%

Voltage Values:
CPU Core 1.248 V
+3.3 V 3.200 V
+5 V 5.000 V
+12 V 11.904 V
+5 V Standby 5.053 V
VBAT Battery 3.216 V

Current Values:
CPU 19.41 A

Power Values:
CPU 25.09 W
Debug Info F FFFF FFFF 0070 00A2 0000
Debug Info T 29 33 23
Debug Info V 4E C8 00 BA BA 00 04 BC C9

Note the vdroop I mentioned
 
Asus p5qpl-am: You may need to update the bios,but there should be an option to set the AI overclocking to manual,after that all is available to set the way I posted. You have a max of 1333 fsb,so you can't go higher than 333 on the cpu bus. The ram,possibly holding you back,but unlinked shouldn't be a problem. In fact some posts say to run the ram at 667 for stability. I found that in my case,it wasn't necessary to do do it. Take note of the vcore voltage,even set at the 1.3 in bios it posts as a normal vcore. Messed up,but that's asus.
 
Its a G41 chipset, not even p45.

It has very limited overclocking options, and i quote:

"BIOS AND OVERCLOCKING

The AMI BIOS was really similar to the one on the Foxconn G45 chipset board I reviewed previously as far as layout and feel are concerned. Strangely enough, the Foxconn board had much more settings that would be of interest to overclockers/enthusiasts. While the Asus board allowed memory latency, multiplier and voltage adjustments, the multiplier adjustments left a lot to be desired since with my 266MHz (1066MHz) FSB CPU the lowest multiplier was 2.5x (667) so overclocking the CPU means eventually overclocking the RAM. The only saving grace was RAM voltages to a dangerous 2.445v.

One interesting thing was RAM undervolting to 1.36v. I?ve heard about vendors coming out with lower voltage DDR2 and DDR3, but that stuff seems pretty rare so this is of dubious value.

The CPU overclocking was actually pretty lackluster for an Asus board, probably because this was meant to be really low end. There were pre-set profiles of 5%/10%/15%/20% plus a ?test mode? that I?m not sure what it does. The FSB can be set from 133-800MHz. Yikes! Of course anything above 350-400MHz-ish is probably useless on a board like this, so I don?t know why they even include those speeds besides being a features checkbox. CPU multiplier is also available from the lowest 6x common to all Core 2 Duo CPUs to the maximum of the CPU (in the case of the E7300, 10x) in 0.5x increments.

Along with chipset and memory voltage adjustments, this all sounds great for overclockers, right? Uh, wait, where?s the CPU voltage adjustment? DOH! I was unable to clock much past 3GHz. At 3.33GHz (333MHz FSB, 10x multiplier) system would boot Windows but wouldn?t run Orthos or even World of Warcraft. I don?t know if it lacked CPU voltage (very likely) or if the memory wasn?t stable at 830MHz (not as likely, I ran at loose latencies and high voltages).

There was one very interesting possibility with this board. It has multiplier adjustments down to 6x and FSB down to 133MHz, and those settings actually worked!!! Unlike on the Gigabyte G31 chipset board where FSB settings started at 100MHz but actually didn?t work below CPU?s stock FSB, this board worked fine at 6x133MHz, meaning you can underclock any Core 2 Duo class CPU to 800MHz. Why would you want to? Well, to save electricity for a low powered server or workstation. But wait, the lack of CPU voltage adjustments, specifically undervolting, makes this almost useless. At least with the Gigabyte board you can undervolt and lower the multiplier.

This board has an interesting feature called Asus Turbo Key. It requires software to be installed and configured from the driver/utility disc. It basically turns your power switch into a turbo switch (while in Windows). This adds dynamic one-touch overclocking to make you feel better about the board being a sucktacular nonoverclocker.

The Asus Turbo Key software has three settings once enabled. The stock FSB of my setup was 266MHz. Here are the options available:
Race Car 268MHz
Jet Plane 273MHz
Rocket 279MHz
This is just a basic and nominal bump of the FSB. It is gimmicky, but does work as advertised. It does require the Asus Turbo Key software to be running in the background though, so I?d personally still clock it up on a more permanent basis from BIOS and leave EIST enabled to downclock the system as necessary." - (Zap ,anandtech.com)

A little disappointing I guess, looks like I have very VERY few options for overclocking, increasing my ram to 833 from 667 is quite a jump, not sure if the ram would handle that.

Ill post my BIOS screens later on.
 
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