Q6600 testing 500fsb :D

KarlMcWade

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So after nearly 2 years of service my gigabyte x38 mobo died last week ( bios dead, restarting loop of death)


so after some hunting i picked up a second hand x48 asus rampage formula

testing so far looks good on water (soon to be phase)

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Hoping for really smash my old 24/7 stable setup 4.31 ghz
just have to work out the bios on this board and what settings it likes
 
Very nice.

You don't hear about the Q6600 clocking ability much these days, I had a cracking chip before I went i7, didn't really notice much difference lol.
 
mr_x_plosion said:
Very nice.

You don't hear about the Q6600 clocking ability much these days, I had a cracking chip before I went i7, didn't really notice much difference lol.
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I,ve built a few i7 rigs now for friends but I dont see the point in them atm there isnt a big enough jump in power yet maybe when the new gulftown's come out perhaps.

Pneumonic said:
very nice Karl... will keep an eye on this one :)
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cheers Pneumonic will make sure i dont disappoint you ;)
 
Hello KarlMcWade,

I am clocking a Q6600 for a friend atm so I am interested in how others are getting on . . .

Potentially that's a great overclock you got there, 500MHz-FSB (2.GHz system Bus) with the memory running async [6:5] 600MHz (DDR2-1200)

What I would be grateful to see is some stability testing when you can fit it in as not many people seem to do that these days! :(

It's your system, thread and rules etc but I'm very interested in *proven* stable overclocks however I understand that some people just want it stable enough to bench and that's fair enough just not my cup of tea!

If you throw up some BIOS settings or screenshots that will be most appreciated by anyone with similar kit who is trying to learn more!

Good luck! :)
 
Hi Big wayne i will post up my settings but i as i,m sure you well know every chip / motherboard / ram combo has different settings that make it stable, i,m just messing around with this mobo untill i finish my custom case that will hold the phase change unit/ watercooling.

3.2 is quite acheivable on stock Air for most q6600's with out any volts or advanced cooling methods.

My highest stable oc on a quad was 4.31ghz ( crunched WCG for XS for a long time 24/7) I posted 4.2 on the ocuk database as i thought someone would beat it and wanted a score in reserve but it never was.

I recomend the Q6600 quad core database as it filled with great info for people looking to oc Quad core's.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=10096083#post10096083

Its just the info your looking as every score on the database has to be 8 hour prime95 stable to in the database

Pneumonic is quite, well nuts with his air cooled quad ( fantastic read, if you search his posts ) 120mm delta's just were not good enough for him you might have to shout tho is hearing isnt the best now lolol. ;) he was the highest quad on air and beat a lot of watercooled rigs too

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17888722&highlight=delta+username_Pneumonic

edit just noticed you quote for Pneumonic lololoolol !!!!! :D
 
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3.6gig is perfectly possible on air with the Q6600 - was edging it a bit on the ACF 7 pro but the coolermaster V8 handled it no hassle - infact the chip I had would do 4gig on a P45 board with the V8 barely touching above 60C except IBT which pushed to just under 70.
 
Rroff said:
3.6gig is perfectly possible on air with the Q6600 - was edging it a bit on the ACF 7 pro but the coolermaster V8 handled it no hassle - infact the chip I had would do 4gig on a P45 board with the V8 barely touching above 60C except IBT which pushed to just under 70.
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I had a very easy 3.6ghz on air with 1.4 vcore, 3.8ghz though was a bit harder to attain, had to lap both chip and cooler and a subsantial jump in vcore to just over 1.5, board was a p45 asus p5q deluxe, the same cpu in my previous evga 680i a1 wouldnt go over 3ghz for love nor money.
 
Hah my Q6600 in a Asus nForce 680 board - wouldn't go beyond 3gig stable either, had it in a P45 and it took 4gig with just over 1.4v - but then I decided I wanted SLI again and bought a EVGA 750i and it struggled to 3.6gig with a lot of vcore and voltmod to the board.

Never had much problem cooling wise the ACF 7 pro was only just upto the task but it did manage it - the V8 seems to take anything I can throw at it.
 
Sounds like you had a pretty decent q6600 Rroff, sli is the main reason i switched to i7, my last board was xfire only, looking to add another gtx 280, if i can get one at a decent price. Also used the acf 7 on my q6600, was pretty good upto 3.4ghz but i then switched it out for a TRUE black which i ended up lapping, still use it on my current i7 920, load temps of 73-68-69-67 @ 4ghz ht enabled, bit of a bargain considering the use ive gotten from it.
 
Never got to see what it was really capable of as I got the SLI bug again before I'd had the P45 long.

I was sorry to part with it - but my dad wanted a quad core so it was the perfect excuse to swap to a Q9550 which I'd been itching to do and couldn't really justify.
 
KarlMcWade said:
I recomend the Q6600 quad core database as it filled with great info for people looking to oc Quad core's.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=10096083#post10096083
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Ah I forgot about w3bbo's old thread! . . . Cheers! :)

KarlMcWade said:
Pneumonic is quite, well nuts with his air cooled quad
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Agreed!

That still makes me laugh a lot, I was expecting his final result to be loud but the noise level exceeded my expectations, I'm surprised various components (capacitors, sticks of ram etc) didn't fly off heh!

KarlMcWade said:
i,m just messing around with this mobo untill i finish my custom case
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No problem mess away!

Don't neglect the stability lovers though as in the event of someone not supplying proof or some sort we have to assume the overclock is benchmark stable only, I know things are different on XS forums but this is OcUK!

Have fun look foward to any results, comments, observations etc! :cool:
 
Changed my water block today as i was getting sky high temps (worse than air) running Occt linpack small fft's for stable shots and moved onto a DD TDX (i know its not made for quads but is going the be better than my home made block).

Also changed the rad too (I was using an old vax heater core) so something a bit stronger (motorbike rad 300mm x200mm x 40mm) part of the custom casei,m making but getting fed up with a 120mm delta makin me deaf

more updated later i,m up to my neck in tubing atm.
 
New psu arrived today so the quad will be under phase later today.

After some online reading and hunting i went for a coolermaster UDP 1100W its a monster and 90% eff with the load that i will have it under.

I cannot wait to really see what this mobo can do !!!!

should be updated today!!!
 
Hi mpj88 i,m using an Vapochill ls, which was modded to take the heat dump of a Quad core can hold my quad with 1.6v @ -31 oC

I,m already back to my stable 4.31 with less voltage needed which is a bonus. Once Asus give me the promised updated bios with finer control of the clock skews i think i will be able to perhaps get a Q6600 into the lin x 4.5ghz stable club.

setting so far (still playin around atm)
chip 1.55v in bios
pll 1.6v
nb 1.43v
nb ter 1.28v
ram 2.12
sb 1.05v
clock skew 100kps
nd skew 100kps

fsb 477
266 strap
110 pcie
ram 1200
clock twister lighter
performance lvl 7

its all i can remember atm
 
Sweet overclock, I'm hoping to pick up a Q6600 soon too. Guess I'm not too optimistic as I've only got a fairly cheap mobo (GA-965P-DS3P) but hopefully with my H50 I'll still be able to get a reasonable clock speed out of it still.
 
KarlMcWade, would you be willing to run the 2 benchmarks in this thread:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18108128

and post your results?

I'm really keen to see what a kentsfield is capable of at higher speeds, unfortunately I couldn't get mine stable at anything above 4ghz, regardless of cooling or voltage (1.6-7 with dual 120.3 rads and 2k rpm fans maxing out at 40-45*C).

Impressive results by the way :D
 
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