Q6600 an OC dud advice, please....

[warezme]

I had been running an E6400 B3, 1.4v, 3.6Ghz, 1600FSB, works well.

Q6600, get cheap, so I buy one till Penryn makes its debut.

This chip won't OC over 2.7Ghz, 1.24v 1200FSB. You may say, oh look, your voltage is to low, yes it is. There is a reason. If I set v to manual, the chip, or mobo (don't know which) begin to behave unusual. The bios sometimes reads a "current" multiplier of 24 at 8485Ghz??? It may boot through or maybe not. The vdroop is pretty high especially over 1.5v. It seems any amount of voltage increase makes no difference for the chip going over 2.7Ghz.

I have flashed bios to latest A30(I believe), done a full clear Cmos with jumper and reset all values to default. At default the chip reports as being a 6x multiplier at 1.6Ghz Quad. I can set the CPU multiplier to 9x and FSB to 1066, then it boots at that speed fine.

I bought this from ZipZoomFly Monday 23rd and got it Thursday 26th. It was $295.00 plus shipping, $297.00.

Should I return it for exchange and put back in my old E6400 or is this typical of a Q6600????

TIA

 

[warezme]

Should I return it for exchange and put back in my old E6400 or is this typical of a Q6600????

TIA

Never mind guys, I found out that my board is revision AR which has problems with going over 1200FSB with quadcores and Evga will be giving me an RMA cross ship for a replacement to fix the problem.

So if you to have an AR series 680i SLI mainboard and a newly acquired Quad and plan to OC, you will have to swap it out also.

 

[grieve]

Told YA ! j/k

 

[HYST3R]

if you could get it to read a multiplier of 24 at 8485Ghz you should take a screen shot and post it that would be hilarious.

 

[Xazax310]

How do you know what one is AR? because i own an EVGA 680I bought it in like January and plan on getting a Quad core.

 

[warezme]

How do you know what one is AR? because i own an EVGA 680I bought it in like January and plan on getting a Quad core.

It was easy I just looked at my invoice from Newegg, it read 122-CK-NF68-AR NF680I 775. I had registered it at Evga and they had a record history of it also.

 

[warezme]

if you could get it to read a multiplier of 24 at 8485Ghz you should take a screen shot and post it that would be hilarious.

I hadn't thought of that, I'll try to remember and take a pic of it before I swap it out.