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***The Official Q6600 Overclocking Thread ***
- Thread starter easyrider
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Finally got my cooler in.
And spent 3 ish hours working from 3.2GHz to 3.6Ghz.
Was abit hassle with blue screen and crashes and needed 1.4125v in BIOS for 3.6Ghz and shows 1.392v in CPU-Z.
Max temp of 67.
Not sure if it prime stable because my retarded brother restarted the computer before i could get to it.
But seem to be fine atm.
Will be trying prime again tonight
Nice, I tried 3.6 but is unstable probably doing something wrong. My Q6600 is happy running at 3.4.
I would be interested in your settings to get 3.9 as i have the same mobo.
My cpu/mobo doesn;t seem to like the 9x multi though. I can reach a higher overclock using the 8x strangely.
Email in trust if you want please.
Soldato
3.6 (24/7 clock) on idle :
Load temps (using IBT):
Realtemp / Prime cooldown test:
And max overclock to date
Load temps (using IBT):
Realtemp / Prime cooldown test:
And max overclock to date
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New mobo, quad @ 3.6 8gig ddr2
Gonna prime95 overnight, had 2hrs stable with settings below but hopefully if overnight stable i'll edit post
Direct link ... http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t152/Defiance_co/GigabyteX48DQ6Q6600at36-1.jpg
Gonna prime95 overnight, had 2hrs stable with settings below but hopefully if overnight stable i'll edit post
Direct link ... http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t152/Defiance_co/GigabyteX48DQ6Q6600at36-1.jpg
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Soldato
Updated best overclok:
Soldato
Thanks
Yep, its under water and i need 1.6v to get it stable :S
Yep, its under water and i need 1.6v to get it stable :S
A quick question regarding vcore and temperatures.
I have just bought some new 1066 memory and I thought this would be a good opportunity to push my q6600 a bit further. My system was sitting quite happily at 3.6 with 8x450, for a bit more I pushed the FSB up tp 475. But with that I had to put my vcore up from 1.46 to 1.5 (though CPU-Z is showing 1.46 (vdroop?)) and up to 1.55 should be OK?
On the temperatures I am getting a bit confused. I use Coretemp, but I have read a few conflicting reports on how it should be set. It comes b default with tj.max at 100 I think but reading the following LINKY, it appears tj.max should be set at 90? Seems that anyone using 100c is over reporting their temperatures by 10c according to Intel, correct?
I have just bought some new 1066 memory and I thought this would be a good opportunity to push my q6600 a bit further. My system was sitting quite happily at 3.6 with 8x450, for a bit more I pushed the FSB up tp 475. But with that I had to put my vcore up from 1.46 to 1.5 (though CPU-Z is showing 1.46 (vdroop?)) and up to 1.55 should be OK?
On the temperatures I am getting a bit confused. I use Coretemp, but I have read a few conflicting reports on how it should be set. It comes b default with tj.max at 100 I think but reading the following LINKY, it appears tj.max should be set at 90? Seems that anyone using 100c is over reporting their temperatures by 10c according to Intel, correct?
Even though that page does seem to indicate that the 'official' TjMax for a GO Q6600 should be 90 I've read dozens of forum posts to indicate the contrary.
Many people on other forums have posted that with a TjMax of 90 using high end air coolers and water cooling setups, their Q6600 was reporting idle temps less than ambient temperature.. which is impossible.
As far as I know most people now accept 100 as the best TjMax value to use for a Q6600.
Soldato
1.5 or 1.55 is a tad high, but not unreasonable for 3.8
And as njj1046 says regarding the "correct" TJMAx - id go for 100 as 90 temps look impossibly low and id rather slightly over read than under read
And as njj1046 says regarding the "correct" TJMAx - id go for 100 as 90 temps look impossibly low and id rather slightly over read than under read
Well, 2 things. I don't see why temperatures les than ambient is impossible. After all a cooler is a radiator and it shold be possible for it to transfer heat away efficiently enough for temperatures to drop below ambient? Unlikely though. Mine, with a tj.max of 90 are hovering around the 23c mark.
Surely Intel are the final arbiters on this?
Anyway. You are probably right and I am having a real beatch of a time getting my system to run stably!!!
Boots into windows, but as soon as I try to run p95 or occt it fails. I'll pushed my vcore up 1.525 (not sure at all how far is safe) and try that.
Surely Intel are the final arbiters on this?
Anyway. You are probably right and I am having a real beatch of a time getting my system to run stably!!!
Boots into windows, but as soon as I try to run p95 or occt it fails. I'll pushed my vcore up 1.525 (not sure at all how far is safe) and try that.
Soldato
It is impossible to go below ambient as where is your coolant that is less than ambient ?
Air cooling pulls ambient temp air across the fins / heatpipes dissapating heat from the CPU - No element is, or has the cooling power to be, below ambient
With Water is the same principle - the water is at best ambient the rads / fans and airflow do not have the ability to take them below the ambient temps
As for Intel being the definative word - from what ive read they will not catagorically state what the TJMax is, or indeed what it should be.
There is circa 145 pages on RealTemp over at the XS Forums where this is discussed to death and more
Air cooling pulls ambient temp air across the fins / heatpipes dissapating heat from the CPU - No element is, or has the cooling power to be, below ambient
With Water is the same principle - the water is at best ambient the rads / fans and airflow do not have the ability to take them below the ambient temps
As for Intel being the definative word - from what ive read they will not catagorically state what the TJMax is, or indeed what it should be.
There is circa 145 pages on RealTemp over at the XS Forums where this is discussed to death and more
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145 pagesIt is impossible to go below ambient as where is your coolant that is less than ambient ?
Air cooling pulls ambient temp air across the fins / heatpipes dissapating heat from the CPU - No element is, or has the cooling power to be, below ambient
With Water is the same principle - the water is at best ambient the rads / fans and airflow do not have the ability to take them below the ambient temps
As for Intel being the definative word - from what ive read they will not catagorically state what the TJMax is, or indeed what it should be.
There is circa 145 pages on RealTemp over at the XS Forums where this is discussed to death and more
Fair enough, no cooling below ambient.Anyway, can't get my q6600 to run at 8x475 (8x450 is fine) for love nor vcore (1.55)!
I'm going to have to look at the rest of what I am doing to try and understand what is happening.
Caporegime
Heres my best result from my q6600.
Cooled by a TRUE black with 2 x 2000 rpm fans in push/pull, ive since sold it and replaced it with a q9550.
Cooled by a TRUE black with 2 x 2000 rpm fans in push/pull, ive since sold it and replaced it with a q9550.
Soldato
Hows the 9550 compared to the 6600 Setter ?
Here is mine:
Interesting, I've used a fair about of voltage to get that, where as a lot of you have pumped a lot less - is this purely error on my behalf?
Should I lower the Multiplier and up the Bus Speed? (still really ignorant with all this).
Also, thinking of flogging the Q6600 and going for a Q9550.
Interesting, I've used a fair about of voltage to get that, where as a lot of you have pumped a lot less - is this purely error on my behalf?
Should I lower the Multiplier and up the Bus Speed? (still really ignorant with all this).
Also, thinking of flogging the Q6600 and going for a Q9550.
I've just had another little tweak of the overclock of the Q6600, trying to get to 3.6.
I've changed the multiplier to x8 and upped the FSB to 450.
Should I be doing anything with the memory with this change?
the NB Voltage is still set to auto, should I change this?
I've booted into Win7 now, all working, however if I dare run Prime it stackes within about 30 seconds, so something isn't happy.
If I have to much voltage (obviously not enough to fry the chips) would that make it crash? I've got the DRAM Voltage set to 2.10, and the CPU Voltage set to 1.45 (although CPUz thinks different).
I've changed the multiplier to x8 and upped the FSB to 450.
Should I be doing anything with the memory with this change?
the NB Voltage is still set to auto, should I change this?
I've booted into Win7 now, all working, however if I dare run Prime it stackes within about 30 seconds, so something isn't happy.
If I have to much voltage (obviously not enough to fry the chips) would that make it crash? I've got the DRAM Voltage set to 2.10, and the CPU Voltage set to 1.45 (although CPUz thinks different).