Q6600 Overclocking Tips

Ringiho · 21 Oct 2011 at 18:59

Evening all,

I just fitted my new Q6600 into my machine and want to try and maximise the performance on with (hopefully giving a boost in BF3 over my E7300). I've stuck a 3Ghz OC on it just now and all seems fine but I just want to check on the voltages and temps.

So while running IBT:

CPU-Z Info - CPU voltage is currently set to Auto in the BIOS and the value on the image is the highest I've seen.

If you can let me know where I can improve things I'd appreciate it!
The motherboard I am using is the Asus P5Q Pro and the CPU is running under a Noctua cooler.

GinG · 23 Oct 2011 at 07:46

Just got one of these myself...just testing now.

Straight from installing the off stuck volts @ 1.4. FSB @ 400 and seems to be running sweet as a nut.

Ringiho · 23 Oct 2011 at 08:56

Cheers for the reply! Any chance you can stick up your temps?

damadom · 23 Oct 2011 at 09:47

ive got mine running at 3.4ghz on artic cooler dont know the other values ill find out

koooowweeee · 23 Oct 2011 at 10:14

What cooler have you got.

Never seen two cores one temp then the other two the same temp.

Looks ol tho just a bit odd lol

Ringiho · 23 Oct 2011 at 11:44

Using a Noctua cooler! Can't find the model number :-(

andy_mk3 · 23 Oct 2011 at 11:46

Set the voltage manually, you'll get it lower than auto will which will lower temps.

Mine's clocked at 3.4GHz (378 x 9.0x) with around 1.27v.

Ringiho · 23 Oct 2011 at 11:51

I'll try and get the voltage down a little then. Which BIOS settings are best to disable?

andy_mk3 · 23 Oct 2011 at 11:52

I'd leave everything else on auto for now, does me fine.

Ringiho · 23 Oct 2011 at 11:54

Cool, sounds good. What temps does yours run at?

bainbridge · 23 Oct 2011 at 12:15

I used to run my Q6600 @ 3.6Ghz but when playing Bad Company 2 experienced several crashes, which was strange as the system was rock solid when benchmarking.

For gaming I found reducing the multiplier to x8 ran games sweetly with no problems at all, so I had 2 overclocked BIOS profiles saved, one for gaming & the other for general use.

Voltage & tempwise I manually set Vcore to 1.51v in BIOS (1.45v on Cpuz) & used to idle at around 45c - 47c rising to 68c - 70c at full load.

Best chip I ever owned!

koooowweeee · 23 Oct 2011 at 12:22

Have you tightened each side of the cooler equally

andy_mk3 · 23 Oct 2011 at 12:28

Ringiho said:
Cool, sounds good. What temps does yours run at?

Idle is roughly 38-45c depending on ambient, under load it tops out at 65c. Not bad for a £15 arctic freezer 7

I'm gonna try it at 3.6 actually. Brb.

andy_mk3 · 23 Oct 2011 at 12:45

Seems good at 3.6, bumped the volts up a bit and it's spot on. Temps are a little higher as I ran furmark as well to get the case temps up to see what the absolute max would be when gaming. It's staying at around 74c now that I've closed furmark. With a decent cooler I'm sure I could improve that a lot.

Ringiho · 23 Oct 2011 at 14:11

Cheers for the update there. Might try and squeeze some more out of mine

Thinking I might have to re-apply the thermal paste looking at my un-even temps.

Will stick an update on later. Also considering some new case fans as mine are old!

andy_mk3 · 23 Oct 2011 at 14:14

I'm seriously considering ordering the Antec Kúhler H2O 620, it's on this week only for £40, seems a bargain and it seems to work fairly well according to reviews.

I've dropped the vcore a notch since posting and tems have dropped to about 71c now

Ringiho · 23 Oct 2011 at 15:05

Yeah I have been tempted by that as well!

Ringiho · 23 Oct 2011 at 16:43

Right, had a play around and got this:

I tried to get the clock higher but with manual volts on the CPU I couldn't get it to boot into Windows. Happy with this though, temps etc are lower now

jennidc · 23 Oct 2011 at 16:49

q6600

I lapped mine to get to 3.6 @ a nice temp

GinG · 23 Oct 2011 at 19:58

My temps are at 60 - 79 degrees!

Just waiting to sort out my watercooling loop which should help with the temp.

I am kicking myself I should have gone quad so much sooner...can't imagine what i5/i7 is like!