Hi all,
Was playing around with the current overclock I have on my Q6600 last night... Came across Intel Burn test and it seems running that makes the pc just power down completely. It can pass one or two runs but without fail it will make the pc power down without warning.
This clearly means something inst stable and I would think it points largely to the cpu. I have had it sitting at 3.84Ghz (425Mhz x 9, 1.512v in BIOS 1.496v on cpu-z) for the past 2 years without any problems and when I first put that clock on it passed 8 hours of prime 95.
It's being cooled by a D-Tek Fuzion block with the quad nozzle fitted. Temperatures get to around 70-75oC on load and idles at 46oC. I was thinking about dropping it to 3.6Ghz as iirc it took a big hike in volts to get it passed this point but a different part of me is saying it’s been fine for 2 years why change it now(It still is prime stable by the way).
For reference the rest of my system is
P5Q-Pro P45
Q6600
2x2Gb 1066 OcZ
GTX470
TX 750W
So what are your views please?
Was playing around with the current overclock I have on my Q6600 last night... Came across Intel Burn test and it seems running that makes the pc just power down completely. It can pass one or two runs but without fail it will make the pc power down without warning.
This clearly means something inst stable and I would think it points largely to the cpu. I have had it sitting at 3.84Ghz (425Mhz x 9, 1.512v in BIOS 1.496v on cpu-z) for the past 2 years without any problems and when I first put that clock on it passed 8 hours of prime 95.
It's being cooled by a D-Tek Fuzion block with the quad nozzle fitted. Temperatures get to around 70-75oC on load and idles at 46oC. I was thinking about dropping it to 3.6Ghz as iirc it took a big hike in volts to get it passed this point but a different part of me is saying it’s been fine for 2 years why change it now(It still is prime stable by the way).
For reference the rest of my system is
P5Q-Pro P45
Q6600
2x2Gb 1066 OcZ
GTX470
TX 750W
So what are your views please?
