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***The Official Q6600 Overclocking Thread ***

Buckster said:
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 :)
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AndyH_Lufc said:
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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Lol you guys are brave. But it does show that Q6600 is a strong chip :).
 
WingZero30 said:
Lol you guys are brave. But it does show that Q6600 is a strong chip :).
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Haha, unfortunately its a high vid chip so its needed to get to those speeds :(
It's been fine so far though and touch wood will carry on to be fine. It does seem to be an awesome chip in terms of clocking and being able to take voltage.

System is coming up to 3 years old anyway so if it goes then it will get replaced with some nice shiny sandy bridge goodies :p
 
AndyH_Lufc said:
Haha, unfortunately its a high vid chip so its needed to get to those speeds :(
It's been fine so far though and touch wood will carry on to be fine. It does seem to be an awesome chip in terms of clocking and being able to take voltage.

System is coming up to 3 years old anyway so if it goes then it will get replaced with some nice shiny sandy bridge goodies :p
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mine too:

1.325V VID

but 3.5gig can't be really complained about considering stock speed of 2.4 lol
 
WingZero30 said:
Any other settings you modified like northbridge voltage, pll, vtt etc?
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MCH is 1.29
If I leave MSH at default(1.25) CPU VCore has to be 1.485, but stangely when Vcore is 1.485V at load(P05) it drops to 1.39V
I dont really know what to do with CPU PLL and other stuff to be honest:confused:
 
some good speeds here for the trusty old Q6600.

Will have a bigger read later to see if I can pick up some tips to get me a little faster.

Gary
 
Thinking about giving this a go again to get my dismal stock speed Q6600 to perform better. I always seem to suffer instability when I even try to clock to 3GHz though.

Has anyone got a good guide to follow. I have a printout somewhere of one with screen grabs of the bios.

Pretty sure I am running P31 bios but got a weird idea it could be P33. Does wcpuid show the VID?
 
I have found on a p45 asus p5q pro that changing north bridge voltage makes no difference at all and that it's all about the cpu voltage.

I am running 3.6 ghz IBt stable on normal stock Nbridge voltage.

It probably only comes in to play if you are running a high FSB maybe like 500+ ?
 
My q6600 is still holding up well at 3.6g. Almost 3 years old. The nb is failing though, this last 6 months ive had to up its voltage to +0.100 (from +0.050)and stick a fan on the nb cooler to keep stability.
 
hi, ive been having a go at getting my q6600 over the 3.2 its been sitting on for a while. Now ive been messing about with it some and managed to get this

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Thats after 10 minutes in prime. Just a few questions. For some reason its running at 1.440v while idle but 1.408v while in load, is this normal? And also as you can see my max temps on core 1 and 2 are around 10'c over core 3 and 4, is this normal or do you think resetting my cooler would work.

My vcore is currently set at around 1.48 in the bios.

Any help would be appreciated!
 
my q6600 takes 1.48v to hit 3.4g and gets too hot for my liking 71c 5 runs ibt so i have to leave it at 3.2 and 1.42v. its vid is 1.325 unfortunatly
 
@PCZ your gflops are too low.
you are not running intel burn test properly.
you need to open task manager and make a note of the amount of FREE ram.
i have 2550mb free so i enter into IBT a custom amount of 2500.
then change the threads to 4 (quad core)
then run IBT.
you should be getting at least 38 gflops.
the higher the better
also i bet if you get over 38gflops, your temps will hit 74.C ish as you are using more cpu power.
just go back a couple of pages in this thread.
you will see WingZero30 explaining all this

my q6600 often hits 74.C in IBT with 40 Gflops, this is ok for testing but in gaming i hardly get over the mid 50's
 
Wasn't trying to get maximum gflops just to show that 70C is not a big deal for a q6600.

The gflops varies between chipsets a bit also.
I'm using an NV 780i.
Will see what it will do on custom.
 
PCZ said:
Wasn't trying to get maximum gflops just to show that 70C is not a big deal for a q6600.
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i agree with you over the temps.
as i said mine often gets upto 74-75 running IBT, the Q6600's can take quiet a bit of abuse :D
don't know about the chipset, its wingzero30 who knows what he is talking about, ;)

its just running on free ram, you get more consistent results.
using maximum or high ram, uses free ram and cached ram, therefore slowing down the cpu and reducing the gflops,
also using custom ram, with 4 threads, tests your Overclock better for stability
 
j.col said:
@PCZ your gflops are too low.
you are not running intel burn test properly.
you need to open task manager and make a note of the amount of FREE ram.
i have 2550mb free so i enter into IBT a custom amount of 2500.
then change the threads to 4 (quad core)
then run IBT.
you should be getting at least 38 gflops.
the higher the better
also i bet if you get over 38gflops, your temps will hit 74.C ish as you are using more cpu power.
just go back a couple of pages in this thread.
you will see WingZero30 explaining all this

my q6600 often hits 74.C in IBT with 40 Gflops, this is ok for testing but in gaming i hardly get over the mid 50's
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j.col said:
i agree with you over the temps.
as i said mine often gets upto 74-75 running IBT, the Q6600's can take quiet a bit of abuse :D
don't know about the chipset, its wingzero30 who knows what he is talking about, ;)

its just running on free ram, you get more consistent results.
using maximum or high ram, uses free ram and cached ram, therefore slowing down the cpu and reducing the gflops,
also using custom ram, with 4 threads, tests your Overclock better for stability
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j.col you are right:):D.

For [email protected] 3.6GHz x 16 = 57.6GFlops Theoretical maximum

I get 47 GFlops during IBT custom stress test which is about 82% of the theoretical maximum value.

If you do get around 44-47 GFlops in IBT, your temp will definitely reach 75-76C on the hottest cores. GFlops can vary chipset wise but it should be tiny variation as it is essentially a measure of cpu processing/execution speed.
 
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@PCZ

Actually I was going to say that your temps may well reach 80C with 44-47GFlops if you are already getting 70C with 32 GFlops as there is a big difference between the two GFlops values.
 
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