***The Official Q6600 Overclocking Thread ***

[easyrider]

gonna aim for 3.4ghz anyway, think it was around 75c but not stable, so probably would be 80c before I can get it stable

Thats just to hot mate

 

[tsinc80697]

Yeah it is a bit, thats under prime, under games and 3d studio max it only gets to 65c which is the most intensive thing I am going to be doing anyway!

 

[smithy83]

hi guys i think ive reached the limit at stock volts it seems (2.952 238x9) seems happy enough 5 hours of prime then some benchmarking in 3dmark06 pc mark05 and sisoftware sandra no blue screens or fails

if i try and go 245x9 prime will fail or ill get a blue screen so im just wonderig how much juice i sould put it up by at a time ?

 

[Pants]

This quad is amazing. I really didn't think it would make too much difference to my games but I was wrong, it's a beast even at just 3.2Ghz!

I play at 1920 x 1200 on a 320 MB 8800. I thought it was a lack of memory on the graphics card causing some stutters in an intensive part of the latest games, but it was my old AMD dual core. Everything flies along now it's awesome.

And I'm future proofed aswell for when the games become multi core capable. Awesome.

 

[wuyanxu]

This quad is amazing. I really didn't think it would make too much difference to my games but I was wrong, it's a beast even at just 3.2Ghz!

I play at 1920 x 1200 on a 320 MB 8800. I thought it was a lack of memory on the graphics card causing some stutters in an intensive part of the latest games, but it was my old AMD dual core. Everything flies along now it's awesome.

And I'm future proofed aswell for when the games become multi core capable. Awesome.

what "latest game" are you playing?

i get a lot of shutters in World in Conflict with unoverclocked BFG 8800GTS 320MB OC1, and overclocking the Q6600 doesn't make a difference. only when i overclock the 8800GTS to 650/1000 where it made 4-5 FPS difference for minimum framerate (was 12-13 now 17-18)

and what voltages are you running at 3.2Ghz? i got BSOD when at 3.2Ghz, 1.395v in the Bios, and 1.34 under load after Vdroop

 

[axer]

Going to bung my details in the quad database later but how’s this for a first quick try:

Gigabyte P35-DS3R
Q6600 G0 @ 1.35v
TRU-E 120 with XILENCE 120mm fan

Have it running prime95 stable @ 400x8 with temps topping out at 58deg under the latest build of Core Temp.

I quickly tried 400x9 which boots fine but fails prime95 before it even begins so possibly a little BIOS tweakage needed there although I'm not sure what I'm doing tbh!
Going to bung my details in the quad database later but how’s this for a first quick try:

Gigabyte P35-DS3R
Q6600 G0 @ 1.35v
TRU-E 120 with XILENCE 120mm fan

Have it running prime95 stable @ 400x8 with temps topping out at 58deg under the latest build of Core Temp.

I quickly tried 400x9 which boots fine but fails prime95 before it even begins so possibly a little BIOS tweakage needed there although I'm not sure what I'm doing tbh!

 

[melbourne720]

echo...

How about with 1.4v running through it?

 

[gjc10212]

what "latest game" are you playing?

i get a lot of shutters in World in Conflict with unoverclocked BFG 8800GTS 320MB OC1, and overclocking the Q6600 doesn't make a difference. only when i overclock the 8800GTS to 650/1000 where it made 4-5 FPS difference for minimum framerate (was 12-13 now 17-18)

and what voltages are you running at 3.2Ghz? i got BSOD when at 3.2Ghz, 1.395v in the Bios, and 1.34 under load after Vdroop

My Q6600 is set to 1.34vcore in bios and runs @3240, idle's 39c peaks 64c. Lapped the Ultima 90i, but will also lap the Q6600 as that apparantley reduces temps another 6-10c (So I've read).

 

[benjo]

I've had mine running at 3.5 Ghz with 1.4 for a few weeks now. Temps creap up to 65c full load. Only thing is, my ram is at 740mhz because of this overclock, and not 800. Using an Abit IP35. Any ideas?

 

[axer]

echo...

How about with 1.4v running through it?

When I tried 400x9 I put the voltage up to 1.4125v anyway

 

[gjc10212]

When I tried 400x9 I put the voltage up to 1.4125v anyway

You'll need a lot of vcore for that, its possible vdroop is preventing you from seeing 1.4v. Try 1.45vc in bios. EIST and C1E disabled.

Keep an eye on temps, if its a GO then no higher than 71c.

 

[Pants]

what "latest game" are you playing?

i get a lot of shutters in World in Conflict with unoverclocked BFG 8800GTS 320MB OC1, and overclocking the Q6600 doesn't make a difference. only when i overclock the 8800GTS to 650/1000 where it made 4-5 FPS difference for minimum framerate (was 12-13 now 17-18)

and what voltages are you running at 3.2Ghz? i got BSOD when at 3.2Ghz, 1.395v in the Bios, and 1.34 under load after Vdroop

The games i'm playing are bioshock, medal of honour airborne, (both UT3 engine and uses 4 cores!!), stalker, world in conflict, etc. All of these were not smooth with the AMD but now run great with the quad core. All games listed are now smoth at native res mostly on max or nearly max settings (but no AA). World in conflict I think is to only game that will still stutter on occasion!!

I'm running 1.350 volts in bios (1.250 volts after vdroop and vdrop under load or 1.296 idle). Orthos stable under full load.

Not sure if i'm going to bother overclocking more unless I need to in the future.

 

[wuyanxu]

The games i'm playing are bioshock, medal of honour airborne, (both UT3 engine and uses 4 cores!!), stalker, world in conflict, etc. All of these were not smooth with the AMD but now run great with the quad core. All games listed are now smoth at native res mostly on max or nearly max settings (but no AA). World in conflict I think is to only game that will still stutter on occasion!!

I'm running 1.350 volts in bios (1.250 volts after vdroop and vdrop under load or 1.296 idle). Orthos stable under full load.

Not sure if i'm going to bother overclocking more unless I need to in the future.

you must have one of the best batches of Q6600 only 1.35 required for 3.2Ghz!

Bioshock, Medal of Honuor Airborne are very smooth. but STALKER gets a bit of stutter here and there which is expected since it doesn't use all 4 cores. but i can't get World in Conflict to work smoothly with everything maxed out i had to turn off soft shadow, AA, a few water reflection options and lower resolution to 1280x800 to have above minimum of 15 for in-game benchmark

 

[melbourne720]

you must have one of the best batches of Q6600 only 1.35 required for 3.2Ghz!

Bioshock, Medal of Honuor Airborne are very smooth. but STALKER gets a bit of stutter here and there which is expected since it doesn't use all 4 cores. but i can't get World in Conflict to work smoothly with everything maxed out i had to turn off soft shadow, AA, a few water reflection options and lower resolution to 1280x800 to have above minimum of 15 for in-game benchmark

That'll be your graphics card, 'only' 320MB then forget about AA frankly. When you do AA doesn't it render the image at a higher resolution(?), then shrink it with some clever maths (hence the demand on graphics memory).

 

[axer]

Right, I've hit 3.6ghz and it looks stable, here’s what I'm stable at so far:

400x9, 1.52v vcore (droops to 1.456-1.472)
Temps have peaked at 68degC in my room with windows/doors closed but spend most of their time at 58-62degC per core (under prime95 load for 2hrs)

I'm going to continue tweaking as I reckon I can do better. Chip will do 400x8 (3.2Ghz) with only 1.35v!!!!

p.s. temps are with CPU under a TRU-E and a XILENCE 120mm fan (60cfm) so very impressed to be honest

 

[melbourne720]

nice clock Temps look good, great clock for air.

 

[w3bbo]

8 x 500FSB = 4ghz

Temps seem nice too.

A long way to go yet but hey, its a start

 

[axer]

Very nice indeed Webbo, good job!

 

[w3bbo]

It will be if I get it past the 8hr mark. reset last night at 7hours 20 mins

 

[axer]

Thats a kick in the teeth! Going for the 8hr mark @ 3.6 on air myself as we speak! Not quite as impressive but still, I'll be very happy as I went from a E6600 that did 3.6 so if this quad does it....