***The Official Q6600 Overclocking Thread ***

[easyrider]

Not bad, I guess people would expect more from you? Still good going considering you had the chip no time at all.

Do u consider that a downgrade to your E6400 @ 3.8GHz then?

Well I was straight in @ 3.6ghz and intend to go higher due to the low temps.

Vcore is 1.45 too so I'm hoping there is more in this chip.

Did you think I was going to leave it at 3.6ghz?

You are mistaken lol

No the 8mb cache abd the two extra cores win over 200 MHZ lol.

Although Quad 3.8ghz will be nice if I can get it stable.

More testing will follow.

 

[easyrider]

Priming at 3.8ghz @ 1.55v Temps seems ok and I'm posting this while priming so touch wood it will be stable.

 

[easyrider]

3.6ghz @ 1.39v, air, 2hr shot. 4 hours to go

CPU-Z is showing more than 1.39 under load so I dont know where you are getting 1.39v from

 

[easyrider]

Help!!!

I'm at 3800, 1.47 real for 30 mins prime

core temps 66 66 62 63

CPU Temp 70-74

So I stopped it.
Whats causing my high temps?

D-tek fuzion water block, single rad, swiftech mini res, and the pump I don't know the make of, 400 l-ph

If I changed the pump to a swiftech 1200 l-ph, would this help a lot bringing the cpu temps down.

I tried a big house fan pointing into the case, and it made no difference.

So what is it?

Pump?
Rad?

Core 2 failed for me at 4hrs 3.8ghz 1.55v needs more ...(testing)

 

[easyrider]

So far I've only touched cpu vcore, the more 'xtreme' your overclock the more use they are to you.

For anything to around 3.8-4ghz on a g0 quad with a good board i would say only cpu vcore would need to be changed.
My P5K Deluxe isn't the same however, needs a small FSB Termination voltage bump to get my x3210 stable.

OK stop there.

You are talking out of your depth.

 

[easyrider]

Pump and rad by the sounds of things, you might want to pick up a DDC 18w or DDC ultra and a dual or tri fan radiator.

Swiffy's MCR and Thermochill's PA range are the top two.

Temps are not his issue

 

[easyrider]

Help!!!

I'm at 3800, 1.47 real for 30 mins prime

core temps 66 66 62 63

CPU Temp 70-74

So I stopped it.
Whats causing my high temps?

D-tek fuzion water block, single rad, swiftech mini res, and the pump I don't know the make of, 400 l-ph

If I changed the pump to a swiftech 1200 l-ph, would this help a lot bringing the cpu temps down.

I tried a big house fan pointing into the case, and it made no difference.

So what is it?

Pump?
Rad?

Your Conservatory

 

[easyrider]

Nice. What are your other settings that you're using for you mobo if you don't mind me asking. I'm completely new to this Intel overclocking malarky after years with AMD so would apprecicate some pointers or at least a starting point. Cheers

add me to msn


in trust

 

[easyrider]

How many posts in a row?

Give me a break. You're out of your depth.

Mate.

I'm not dissing you.

I want factual post's thats all.

 

[easyrider]

@fornowagain


indeed

 

[easyrider]

For anything to around 3.8-4ghz on a g0 quad with a good board i would say only cpu vcore would need to be changed.
.

This is BS

Sorry mate

 

[easyrider]

How so?

That is exactly what I have gone through so how the **** can it be BS?

mate I'm not going there.

I wasn't insulting you but your post was to general .

I have boosted both NB and SB vcore for low temps at 3.6ghz

you claim none of these values need changing for 4ghz?

 

[easyrider]

Claiming, no, giving a ballpark idea though.

Have only changed vcore on this mobo, no other voltage settings. Am trying 3.8 and I have still only changed vcore settings. I would imagine you might need to change something else at 4ghz but cooling/chip limits would be more of a problem at that speed and as I have not go there yet I couldn't say.

I was not talking about ram, etc thats something else.

show me then

 

[easyrider]

1.41v, need to work on the memory as this stuff is made for 800, need to test to see how high it can go as the lowest divider is now over the rated speed.

Ok we are getting closer to the truth.

1.39v is BS.

Mine passes that bench at 4ghz

Prime stable pls

Thats the key

Get your clock 8hrs prime stable...Just like I did @ 3.6ghz

if you get this data @ 3.8ghz I will be the first to congratulate you

 

[easyrider]

Cheers will do, off on my Stag Do for the weekend now though!

Got it sorted for the moment @ 3.6Ghz it would seem. Volts probably higher than I need at the moment, and that PWM temp just rockets away...:

I have a 120 MM Fan on a Zalman fan bracket hovering over the PWM

 

[easyrider]

P.s. It's bad enough people posted ridiculously high res images, but there's no need to quote the damn things...

Its a nice car

 

[easyrider]

Hi there,

I thought I would share my settings with you!

Quad 6600 GO pack date 08/16/07
Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R
2GB Crucial 5300 (2.2v)
Thermalright 120 extreme with push pull Noctura 120mm 1200rpm fans
Noctura 120mm 1200rpm (front in-take & exhaust)
Thermalright NB cooler SLi
Bumped the northbridge & southbridge by 0.1v each
CPU volts 1.475 in bios
400X9 = 3600MHz
Idle 35.31.28.35 (but that can vary on room temp)
Load 58.55.57.57

Nice first post and welcome to my thread and welcome to the forums,

easy.


P.S Just get that stable for 8 Hrs now

 

[easyrider]

So any chance you could make yourself useful and edit the first post to showcase the top ten stable overclocks, settings, steppings/codes, cooling stuff like that?

thanks!

Yeah sure.

All of you listen....

Email me your clocks and cooling stepping and vcore to my trust email.

I will gladly collate this information into post number 1 for easy analysis.

Don't email unless you are at least 8 hrs prime stable either!

So attachments of this would be fine.

 

[easyrider]

Considering this is a cpu thread, personally I don't consider a blend to be that much of a test of cpu stability compared to small fft. Blend just doesn't get hot enough, I tend to use lower multiplier's to test the system. Not being contentious as I'm sure opinions will differ, but any consensus?

I generally do small FFT to test for the max clock and produce the most heat.

However Blend is a good test that I have a stable system in terms of ram mobo etc..

For arguements sake if small FFT is used then thats a good indication you have an ok clock.

 

[easyrider]

Got to agree with you there HeadRat.

I can prime at 3.8 stable and play games at 3.9 no problem allegedly unstable. There is a 30 degree difference between playing Battlefield 2, for 3 hours and prime for 30 mins.

People argue about prime stability, but real world use doesnt need to be prime stable on all 4 cores for 8 hours.

Fallacy...

Its ok "kidding" but if your CPU cannot compute data prime numbers you have a system that is not doing its job.

No ifs or buts