Post your Q6600 overclock

Please post your mobo, OC, vcore, core temps (stressed), HSF, and stability status

Me:
- GA-P35-DS3L
- 3.2ghz@1.3375v
- 65C, 65C, 62C, 60C
- Arctic Cooling Freezer Pro 7
- stable for 7hr 40min on Prime95 small FFT (I shut off, no crash or error).

I think this thread will give people a feel for what is possible with different HSF and typical vcore values.

We can list case too (Centurion 5 here), but I don't think it will be a big factor.

Kraynor, can you do me a favor and put yer stuff on factory settings with all the speed junk disabled like speed step and list the VID of your b3, please?
Mine is a g0 1.2625 VID. (Can hit 3.6 on 1.38 loaded.)
P5k-e Wifi
3.8 w/ x 8/475 = 1900 FSB! (1.5250 Bios, 1.50 windows, 1.488 loaded.)
8 Gigs of 1066 @ 951 in sync.
Temps max out at like 74c, but its fast! (Daily temps are never over the 50s, and thats gaming with crysis.)
OC'd 8800 Ultra at 684 core, 1620 shader and 1152 mem clock.

Ultra is on water, and the processor is on a TRUE w/ good fan.

Stability. Other than no problems of any kind for a week. No freezes, no BSODs, nothing. However, it fails prime 95 small ftts at test 4 like clock work. I dont believe its processor related. I cant get an error with anything else. And I have went from 1.5 to 1.6 Bios VCore with zero effects. Possibly has something to do with the fsb I run. Thats my next guess, but as long as it doesnt cause any problems.

--Lupi

I would guess more like a 1.2500 or so one with that OC. I have a 1.3125 and its hot at 3.2! at 3.6 it needed like 1.55 volts.

--Lupi!

PS I wrote d815 but meant d915, that I plan to use with the same mobo from MSI. If the FSB's the same and the d915 with the x14 multiplier, I'd hoped to get 3,4-3,6Ghz on the MSI. Gonna cool it with a C/M HyperTX2 or an A/C Freezer 7 PRO. RAM's gonna be what I'm using now, but the Q6600 on the new mobo's gonna use an OCZ PC8000 Reaper. Everything on air, cause I can't be bothered, and all the simple water cooler's even worse than air.

billiardicus! how many different threads have you open to get help on your new pc overclocking problems?lol

im a true fan of you though!same as lupi!reply to your every single thread!hehe

lol what you exactly try to do lupi?lol

lol
as a tip.you shud always select the lower multiplier and obtain the highest stable FSB possible.

Mobo: Asus Maximus X38
CPU: Intel Q6600 3.6 ghz (401 x 9) 1.2875v (VID 1.2250v)
Temps: Idle: 35 35 34 34 Load: 59 59 60 60
Cooling: Tuniq Tower 120 lapped + AS5 in Antec 900
Stable: 8 hours prime 95 small fft
Stepping: G0

Can anyone recommend a solid water cooling kit that will beat this setup? I can easily achieve 4.0 on this VID.

How much do you want for your chip?

Screw water cooling.

maybe he wanted 4g as he mentioned???

its better to sync the fsb to memory.or the 1:1 ratio.you will gain alot more performance.to hit 2.8G select 400x7 will have better performance gain than 350x8,and 350x8 will have better performance gain than 311x9 even 800mhz on memory for all those different fsb.

a higher fsb will lead to better memory performance.if you have everest and goto the benchmark then you will see the result.the cpu who have 1600fsb will have higher memory speed even at the same clock 800mhz.and you can certainly try it out on your motherboard.select different multiplier and make sure you have your memory at 900mhz with different multiplier.than you can see the result for yourself!i have actually try it.and it is true.you have to know that everything that goes in and out the memory module is through the NB.so higher fsb will gave you wider bandwidth.understand?

If it was possible, I would. But this board was bought for cheap and not for pride. The multiplier is locked at x9, even when you set the damn thing to do x7 or x8 in the bios, it totally ignores that you changed it. Might be in need for an updat, because I got it ONCE to boot with an x8 multiplier.

What I meant with the link was that it wasn't always an advantage to max out on the FSB.

Any suggestions for an xfx nForce 780i mobo running a q6600, 2x8800gt in SLI, and 2x2048MB OCZ Reaper 6400? Supposed to help out with putting it together for a friend and tweaking it. Too late to change setup, it's already ordered.

It ain't me, it's him that ordered. What's wrong? Is it that terrible? What else could he have done if he wanted to run cheap SLI?

I think its fine, had mine at 3.6 with sli'd ultras. Huge VDroop on that board, but what can ya do? I can give you a hand if you need it, since I had the same board with a q6600, blahblah.

--Lupi

Hey Lupiron, could you give me info on the bios setting you used so I could save time? Even if my board don't match exactly (in there's a difference between good and bad chipsets), at least I could take it from there. Hope it wasn't overvolted, cause I don't know how crazy my friend if with that. He'll be using a Zerotherm NV120 in a good casing with a really sweet airflow.

Ya need to find out what stepping your quad is, so turn off speed step in the Bios, and put everything on auto, when it loads up, run core temp v 0.96.1 and list the VID and stepping/revision of your processor. If its a b3, it will be hard to get fast speeds on any board, hehe.

A g0 should be fine up to 3.6 The VID will make a difference on how much VCore you shall need for 3.6ish.

--Lupi

I feel sorry for all those that got a b3. They sound like they live in a world of pain and suffering:-)

BTW, anyone know who this "Rocket Scientist" is? http://www.kostjan.com/?postid=21 100% theory, 0% real world value... He even claimed that AMD would make a comeback and that everybody that bought a q6600 is a pizzafaced teen that got it from his mom.

I think the guy who wrote the article about the b3's being so great is because he has a truckload of the stuff that he wants you to buy:-)

Surely there must be a reason to why they inform that there is a 3 year warranty, that becomes void, should you range outside the specified voltage and temperature. Not that sure how you check if something's ranged beyond in voltage, but anyone can see or smell if something's been fried.

Gigabyte GA-G33-DS2R mATX, 3.0GHz (G0 stepping, 333 x 9)(Vcore is 1.343V according to setting in BIOS, can't remember the forth decimal place). With Prime95, the cores run at about 67*C. These temps vary according to time of the day.

CPU cooler is Cooler Master Hyper 212. Overclocked system ran for half a day without errors in Prime95.

Take note that I live in Singapore (very near the equator), so temperatures are 29*C all year round. This may be affecting my ability to overclock my CPU.

My bad once more. The BIOS didn't go back to X9, it stayed at X8, but 3Dmark06 read the CPU speed incorrectly, as did Vista. Ran OCCT and the first time it told me the correct speed 3360, rebooted, checked the BIOS, saw it was X8, changed it to X9 (for heck sake), didn't boot, changed back, rerun OCCT, and now it too gives me the wrong speed, 3780MHz again! Maybe I should check for a newer BIOS cause something ain't right.