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***The Official Q6600 Overclocking Thread ***

Artic silver paste, and yeah i guess i should be pretty happy with a 800mhz overclock :) The previous owner who ran it at 3.8/4 must have had some very good cooling.
 
tom91x91 said:
Artic silver paste, and yeah i guess i should be pretty happy with a 800mhz overclock :) The previous owner who ran it at 3.8/4 must have had some very good cooling.
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I think arctic silver 5 has 200hours of curing time. Overclocking also very much depends on:

-size of the case (how big is the interior for good air flow)

-mobo chipset (later revisions of northbridge chipsets usually give better overclocking results)

- chipset cooling(passive/active) when overclocking, chipset (northbridge) gets very hot and sometimes this can also affect overclocking stability

-voltage phase regulator ( I think this is very impotant one as this can affect cpu overclocking heavily. An 8-phase mobo will smooth out vcore to the cpu much more under less stress than 4-phase mobo. So high overclocking can be achieved with relatively less voltages)

-case fans better fans will provide more airflow at faster rate into the case and also exhaust the hot air much quicker

-cpu cooler fans same as above

-cpu cooler heatsink larger surface area can accomodate more heat transfer and thus taking the heat away from cpu IHS more quickly

thermal paste/application method This can also affect the temperatures. Some methods are more suited to a particular cpu than others.


So as you can see there are a lot of factors that can affect the overclocking of a same cpu:).
 
My Overclock, Tempretures are just internet browsing.



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Stock Thermal paste cooled with the ALC Vantage Watercooler. Haven't tryed lowering the voltage or anything yet but runs stable as is.
 
With northbridge volts, in my bios it doesnt show the amount, just shows the amounts you can add, so i have no idea how much i should be adding or how dangerous this is to the hardware. Im thinking because im using 4 x 1gb sticks of ram i need some extra volts to NB to increase stability for higher clocks.
 
Resat my heatsink and applied a slightly thinner layer of thermal paste and i now idle in the low 30's rather than the high 30's so might be able to hit 3.4ghz for 24/7 use :)
 
hehe

I used to worry about temps ..... but when it comes down to it - if its stable so what :)

motherboard is now almost 4 1/2 years old (P5B Deluxe) -been oc'd since day 1 - and with the new 570 in the system - I'm hoping for another 12-18 months, which will be by far my longest ever Mobo owned :)
 
Buckster said:
I'm at 1.575 bios

Hot hot though !!
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Im running similar to that on mine, in cpuz it shows 1.53 and under load it drops lower than this.

Been running this vcore for probably a year at least and no issues, idle around 28-32c and around load 60c. Water all the way :)
 
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