I ran my Q6600 for over five years at 3.5ghz and 1.5v with a freezer 7. It would get over 80c when stressed but never had any problems. I only stopped using it when i upgraded to a x5460 which I now have @4.3ghz at 1.45v on the same board. The older cpus can take move voltage than the newer stuff so you should be able to push yours some more and get at least 3.2-3.4ghz without much problem.
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I ran my Q6600 for over five years at 3.5ghz and 1.5v with a freezer 7. It would get over 80c when stressed but never had any problems. I only stopped using it when i upgraded to a x5460 which I now have @4.3ghz at 1.45v on the same board. The older cpus can take move voltage than the newer stuff so you should be able to push yours some more and get at least 3.2-3.4ghz without much problem.
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Thanks, tried but it ain't happening!! Got up to 2.8ghz fine, 3ghz needed load more volts (1.35 iirc) and still wasn't 100% stable. Unless I'm missing something.
Also I thought z97 was designed to accept broadwell? Please correct me if I'm wrong!
Give it more volts as that's what's needed. The old 65nm cpu's were ok with highish voltages. My old Q6600 neded 1.45v for 3.6Ghz and 1.5v for 3.8Ghz. Never had any problem with it.
Whether Z97 will take Broadwell or not, what's the point of buying a current board when there is a new chipset with more features on the horizon? I would rather have the latest chipset than have one from the last gen. There's also the fact that a Z97 board will need a bios update to run Broadwell and unless you buy one of the Asus boards with USB Bios Flashback that is something that you won't be able to do. As already suggested, ask for gift vouchers.
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Ok guys, currently seeing how far I can push this little chip! 3.2ghz 1.4v at the mo.... the sky's the limit!
Probably just going to ask for clothes instead. I play most of my games at 4k anyway, not sure how much of a boost I'd actually get.
Probably just going to ask for clothes instead. I play most of my games at 4k anyway, not sure how much of a boost I'd actually get.
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Right, 3.2ghz failed at 1.40v and 1.45v. Might just have to stick to 3ghz 1.4v. Could the memory voltage be holding it back? At 1.5v mem volt, maybe I should try 1.6v??
I had problems going over 3.2 with the 9x multiplier but could reach 3.5 with a higher fsb on the 8x multiplier not sure on ram voltage as mine is ddr2
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Looking back through my old notebooks my Q6600 did 3.6Ghz at 9x400 with 1.456v. This was in a Asus P5E X38 motherboard if I remember correctly. You are adjusting the ram speed as you increase the fsb? To hit high fsb's you will have to bump up the NB voltage too.
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Yeah I thought about the northbridge voltage, no idea what to set it to though. Default is auto, other options are 1.25v, 1.4v, 1.55v, 1.7v, don't suppose you know a good place to start?
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I can't find the actual board settings in any of my notebooks but these links should help you:-
The Official Asus P5K thread
P5K-E overclocking thread
The Official Q6600 overclocking thread
The Official Asus P5K thread
P5K-E overclocking thread
The Official Q6600 overclocking thread
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Hi mate, yeah I did hear this a while back, then I completely forgot about it when costing things up!! I did remember thinking it seemed a bit more expensive than I'd originally thought....
Anyway I'm discounting that option due to the long wait and the possibility that the first batch of chips might all be locked.
Not getting anywhere with overclocking this q6600, seems stuck at 3ghz if I want it stable. Lowering the multi, no good. Seems like I'm getting massive vdroop after reading the overclocking threads, like 0.1-0.2v!! Might just have to pump in 1.6v to keep it happy.
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You could buy a Z97 and G3258, worry about Broadwell or i5 when you have the money.
I recently lost my Gigabyte P45 motherboard, seen no point in waiting for what might be out, bought a Z97 motherboard, will buy a G3258 as it outperforms the Q9550 in most situations anyway, and lets be honest, waiting for a few seconds here and there on tasks that are multi core/thread dependant is not going to kill anyone.
I can always upgrade the CPU later if needed, and lets be honest here, Skylake is only going to offer a marginal improvement over Haswell while costing a damn lot more due to DDR4, and will probably be best considered in 2016/2017 if some new "SpaceRiverTikTokMoneyFleeceFor10%Marginal" architeture is not being punted at us by then.
I recently lost my Gigabyte P45 motherboard, seen no point in waiting for what might be out, bought a Z97 motherboard, will buy a G3258 as it outperforms the Q9550 in most situations anyway, and lets be honest, waiting for a few seconds here and there on tasks that are multi core/thread dependant is not going to kill anyone.
I can always upgrade the CPU later if needed, and lets be honest here, Skylake is only going to offer a marginal improvement over Haswell while costing a damn lot more due to DDR4, and will probably be best considered in 2016/2017 if some new "SpaceRiverTikTokMoneyFleeceFor10%Marginal" architeture is not being punted at us by then.
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I like your thinking! I thought about getting a cheap Pentium and overclocking it, would only do that if I got one second hand so I'd lose the minimum amount. Am worried that I'll see a big performance drop in the newer games I play like far cry 4 though.