***The Official Q6600 Overclocking Thread ***

[melbourne720]

And your VCore is? Also, what temps were you getting at load on 2.8?

And welcome to the forums

 

[MTWest]

I set my VCore at 1.3v... load temps are in the mid 40's at 2.8Ghz.

And thanks for the welcome, cool community here

 

[ShoeMaker]

Got myself a Q6600 L726B, but im having the same reversed speedstep problem I had with the ES sample I had

This helped me with the same issue:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17782058

 

[Devious]

This helped me with the same issue:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17782058

Not the same problem, yours was just speedstep doing its job where as mine is the same but reversed. Mine slips down to x6 multi when loaded.


Your not alone though, Ive posted this problem on a few forums and I think everyone glances at it and thinks its the speedstep question thats been asked a thousand times

 

[w3bbo]

Is it not the intel TM coming into play m8? Throttling it back due to temps?

 

[Servo]

3.8 stable

 

[Devious]

Is it not the intel TM coming into play m8? Throttling it back due to temps?

Doubt it m8, it only primes for a few seconds and temps only get to the high 40's before it changes. My room is like a fridge atm too.

And it also does it at stock 2.4Ghz.

I thinks its something in this bios, but non of the earlier ones support G0 stepping

Might see if I can RMA the motherboard on this ground.

 

[ViRuS2k]

I think im going to throw this resorator 2 out the bloody window becuse im noticing you guys are all getting far better temps than me on air LOL and im useing liquid. heh

 

[w3bbo]

501x8 = 4009mhz...finally!

 

[spooks]

Woah, that is nice mate. Very impressive!

 

[spluff]

when i upped my cpu from 2.7 to 2.9 I got some weird graphic corruption when the logon screen appears in vista........ but apart from that eveything seemed okay?

Any ideas what caused that problem? 2.7 is fine........

 

[melbourne720]

I set my VCore at 1.3v... load temps are in the mid 40's at 2.8Ghz.

And thanks for the welcome, cool community here

You're welcome. You may be getting some VDroop on that, try 1.35 or 1.4.

 

[melbourne720]

501x8 = 4009mhz...finally!

Well done W3bbo

Was the trick to get it past the magic 500 FSB?

 

[w3bbo]

Nah, it seemed to be the SB + PLL voltage that did the trick.

 

[Robert]

Mine should be here mon/tuesday...using with DS3 rev 1 and AF7 pro.

 

[Spitfir3]

Hey,

Got my Q6600 a few days ago.. very nice. although, no noticeable difference in XP.

few questions, mine didnt say anything about the energy efficient version which I bought? should it say something about that? Also what's this G0 thing people are talking about?

Gonna try and overclock mine (first time i'll try o/cing) soon..

Cheers

 

[melbourne720]

G0 is a different stepping of chip, which produces less heat (in a nutshell).

Download and run CPU-Z, that should tell you what stepping you have.

 

[Dangerous Dave]

Clocking one now on a ASUS 5K Premium, sitting at 3ghz on 1.35V @ 41c with prime running under a Tuniq Tower in TAT/Coretemp. Going to start uping it when I get home.

Reviews of the board say it has little to no vdroop under load, need to get my volt meter out to confirm this.

 

[sablabra]

Clocking one now on a ASUS 5K Premium, sitting at 3ghz on 1.35V @ 41c with prime running under a Tuniq Tower in TAT/Coretemp. Going to start uping it when I get home.

Reviews of the board say it has little to no vdroop under load, need to get my volt meter out to confirm this.

Enable Vdamper and you will see very little Vdroop.

 

[Dangerous Dave]

Enable Vdamper and you will see very little Vdroop.

Will do the next time I'm in the BIOS, now running at 3.33ghz still on 1.35v and 45c. Going to leave this priming overnight as I have only been doing 30min ish ones on my way up.