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***The Official Q6600 Overclocking Thread ***

Tom|Nbk said:
Not really, priming to your standards would take a good part of someones day or night and may be inconvenient to them...Along with the wasted electricity. For the likes of people who like piece of mind it's worth it. But everyone has different ways to test stability.
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Not really,

Inconvenient ..is having a game hang or a copy to corrupt.

Best get the stablity in place when overclocking before utilisation.

Not even going to entertain the elcetricity comment TBH.

As this means the PC needs to be on does it not?

A fundamental flaw.

As a PC needs to be "plugged in" in order to work.


P.S when I primed my PC small FFT 3.6ghz I posted on this forum checked emails etc... while running samll FFTS on prime for 4 hrs then went to bed.

My PC was still responsive on my wake.

Prime can be done when using your PC.

Makes even your clock more solid.
 
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easyrider said:
Not really,

Inconvenient ..is having a game hang or a copy to corrupt.
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As many guys have stated on here, that would not be a problem, it's easy to work around that..

easyrider said:
Best get the stablity in place when overclocking before utilisation.
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I agree, Im in the same mindset with you on the stability (not anything else I might add, thank God). But you can't judge people for testing how THEY want to test if It works for them, your word doesn't mean everyone on here should follow it. Hell if they did it would be a very very boring place wouldn't it.

easyrider said:
Not even going to entertain the elcetricity comment TBH.
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Might not mean much to you (and here is the flaw with you), but some people pay their own bills, maybe you don't in your household?, are you going to stump up the electricity bill for these guys to run prime to your standards...No thought not. So stop talking tripe.

easyrider said:
Prime can be done when using your PC.
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Not really, not in my case anyway, blend takes up a ton of resources and makes it pretty much impossible to do anything I normally do with my PC as all the PC's resources are tied up to prime. Some people would just rather test doing stuff they normally do with the PC, they see that as the best test. As I said everyone is different and you can't seem to understand that.
 
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Blimey I seem to have stirred a bit of a hornets nest ;)

For me if I can play my games and use my apps without the machine bombing out then it's stable, there are going to be two camps here TBH.

I bought my computer to play games on, if it does that without rebooting/freezing then its doing what I need it to do. If you are running an app that maxing all four cores 24/7 or just like chasing the tail of the overclocking dragon then obviously it's long Prime runs all the way.

I think what we need here is a little more lattitude from certain members of the forum, there is no point alienating people (Azza) in the process, this stuff is supposed to be fun and most people come here for help not abuse :)

HEADRAT
 
I think there will always be two camps - the 'stable for what I need' and '100% stable'.

Personally I find the sweet spot of a chip.. e.g. my B3 Q6600 would sit happy at 3.0GHz on stock volts or needed a boost to run 3.2. Anything over 3.3 ish wasn't stable at all. I would rather run it at 3.0 all day and know it was perfect, then run it at 3.2 with more heat or even higher with it not being fully stable.

Back on topic - just waiting for the Corsair XMS2 to arrive so hopefully I get clocking with this G0 finally :)
 
Sure, I'm happy with my G0 @ 3420 which did fail after something like 8 hours of Prime (left it overnight), never had a single hang/reboot in a game/app.
 
Lets get back onto the topic, the OP has requested 8hr prime stable, for entry into HIS chart, if your not happy with this, then the answer is get it primed for 8hrs.
 
HEADRAT said:
Sure, I'm happy with my G0 @ 3420 which did fail after something like 8 hours of Prime (left it overnight), never had a single hang/reboot in a game/app.
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Wow, thats so close, did it fail with heat? Maybe needs another notch on vcore?
 
If I go another notch on Vcore temps are too high, I'm happy where it is tbh and I just can't be bothered with testing any more, the juice ain't worth the squeeze. (also I want to play Bioshock)

It's a blistering quick rig now, another 200/300Mhz aint gonna make too much difference (and that's all I'm going to get on air from this chip even with all the tweaking in the wolrd) ;)

Obviously for some that wouldn't be unacceptable, they get their joy from pushing every last Mhz and getting it stable, for me I just wanna have fun!

HEADRAT
 
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HEADRAT said:
If I go another notch on Vcore temps are too high, I'm happy where it is tbh and I just can't be bothered with testing any more, the juice ain't worth the squeeze. (also I want to play Bioshock)

It's a blistering quick rig now, another 200/300Mhz aint gonna make too much difference (and that's all I'm going to get on air from this chip even with all the tweaking in the wolrd) ;)

Obviously for some that wouldn't be unacceptable, they get their joy from pushing every last Mhz and getting it stable, for me I just wanna have fun!

HEADRAT
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Thats quite true, my old B3 @ 3.4, encoded div's from dvd, was only slightly slower than the G0 at 3.6. But in bench marking (which we don't do everyday) the 3.6 was a lot quicker.

From everyday use, there ain't any eye catching difference.
 
mmmm intresting last few pages, peoples views on stability will differ and always will. personaly i respect any overclock by anyone. as we all had to start somewhere. if 3.2 is the best you can get then great! thats 800mhz above stock and beats the top of the line intel retail CPU.

We have all had good and bad boards, same for CPU's and lets not forget Ram. 2 parts of the same brand can give diffrent results in diffrent boards! the thing with overclocking is the fact there are no garentee's! what works for one will not for another even if useing the same hardware. few years back when the mobile 2500 barton on a dfi ultra at 2.6 was king a friend and i did an experiment. both had same stepping CPU, boards ram ect. i could get 2.6 he could only get 2.4

After trying this and that we put my CPU in his board and 2.4 was all it would do. then went about changing everything from GFX to ram and still 2.4 all that changed was the board in the end. 2 boards bought at the same time next to each other on the shelf and 200mhz diffrence when clocked.

as for stabilty no one wants there PC to blue screen/crash/lockup ect all the time. that would drive anyone nuts. i would imagine everyone here wants stabilty, evryone has there own level of stability. prime/orthos/3dmark/SPi/ect are great indications for stabilty but a machine that does 7 hrs 59 mins then fails is no more stable than a machine that does 8hrs 1 min then fails. what will be the new stablity mark next year. 1 month prime stable?

if some are happy with there clock and there PC does everything they want without crashing ect then hats off is what i say. everyone should be pleased no matter what they get from the PC hardware.


basicly if your happy with stability and care to post your results iam happy to read them!
 
It's horses for courses, some people love to customise and tune cars, the thrill for them is not driving the car but completing the project, it's just a different mindset.

easyrider said:
Then don't post.
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Of course he can post :confused: his views are as valid as yours!

I never even leave my PC on for 8 hours in a day, I have go to work or look after the kids ;)
 
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Apparently not HeadRat. After all im not stable at 3.9.

Easyrider, Im away working in Kenya for a week now, but ill get you your 3.8 stable next weekend pal. :eek:
 
ive noticed that people with lower default vcore in core temp are getting better clocks,

so this could be a good indicator if your cpu is going to clock well.
 
i cant get my cpu stable at 3.6

i get 1 core fail, im at 1.465 volts in bios

but temps are at 80oC +, with the TT big typhoon


would this be causing the fail?

what are tha chances of a stable 3.6ghz overclock on water?
 
TiZoR said:
i cant get my cpu stable at 3.6

i get 1 core fail, im at 1.465 volts in bios

but temps are at 80oC +, with the TT big typhoon


would this be causing the fail?

what are tha chances of a stable 3.6ghz overclock on water?
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80c is far to hot.

what mobo have you got?

3.6ghz is what I am at now fully stable. (water)

3.8ghz fails prime on one core and I am currently trying to iron this out with some voltage tweaking.
 
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