I'm having real trouble overclocking my Q6600 most I can get even with massively upped voltages is 8x350 (prime stable that is) and I think I know where I'm going wrong.. my corsair xms is only 667 which is rated for 333Mhz and obviously increasing the fsb on my chip is increasing the ram speed past what its capable of? would this sound reasonable? would say 800mhz ram solve my problems?
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Q6600.. unsuitable memory?
- Thread starter DeadLOK
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Why not do 333 x 9 for 3.2 GHz, till such time you can buy some faster Ram?
Not bottlenecking really, just limiting the OC
bios wont allow me to go past 8 :/
Haha.. i got owned cheers phil 
Incidently since I got banned theres been some developments. I discovered my RAM is infact 800Mhz and not 667Mhz which made me realise it was just my q6600 with 3.25 VID was poop. I managed to swap my q6600 for one with a much lower VID and it happily hits 3.4ghz now although at the cost of high temperatures.
Now I've got my free shipping back from being unbanned today I've ordered a Prolimatech Megahalems Rev B and a Sharkoon Silent Eagle 1000 120mm Fan
Incidently since I got banned theres been some developments. I discovered my RAM is infact 800Mhz and not 667Mhz which made me realise it was just my q6600 with 3.25 VID was poop. I managed to swap my q6600 for one with a much lower VID and it happily hits 3.4ghz now although at the cost of high temperatures.
Now I've got my free shipping back from being unbanned today I've ordered a Prolimatech Megahalems Rev B and a Sharkoon Silent Eagle 1000 120mm Fan
Right chuffed to bits, fitted my Megahalems and im running 3.6Ghz prime stable so far
vcore is set to 1.5v in the bios but is showing 1.304 on cpu-z, I assume you go by what cpuz says due to the 'vdroop'?
load temperatures are reasonably high as well, I think i may need a beefier fan (or even two) for the cooler as its only 1000rpm
vcore is set to 1.5v in the bios but is showing 1.304 on cpu-z, I assume you go by what cpuz says due to the 'vdroop'?
load temperatures are reasonably high as well, I think i may need a beefier fan (or even two) for the cooler as its only 1000rpm
