Some question about OC

[hminh87]

I'm going to buy a Q6600 system and thinking of overclock it to 400Mhz FSB.
Now, I'm still quite confused about the whole voltage/clock thing. My friend explained to me that it's all about performance/heat issues.
So what I understand now is that more voltage gives better stability but generates more heat and vice versa. Too much voltages might kill the component and that is pretty much all to it. Please verify. I've always had the fear to change voltages. Maybe a better understanding can eliminate it.

The FSB multiplier for Q6600 is 4, right? 400FSB -> 1600MHZ with multiplier of 9 gives 3.6Ghz clockspeed.

Should I go for DDRIII-1600 and run 1:1 with the CPU or DDR2 and run 2:1. Is it worth the extra money?

A whole bunch of thanks to ya!

 

[dagger]

I'm going to buy a Q6600 system and thinking of overclock it to 400Mhz FSB.
Now, I'm still quite confused about the whole voltage/clock thing. My friend explained to me that it's all about performance/heat issues.
So what I understand now is that more voltage gives better stability but generates more heat and vice versa. Too much voltages might kill the component and that is pretty much all to it. Please verify. I've always had the fear to change voltages. Maybe a better understanding can eliminate it.

The FSB multiplier for Q6600 is 4, right? 400FSB -> 1600MHZ with multiplier of 9 gives 3.6Ghz clockspeed.

Should I go for DDRIII-1600 and run 1:1 with the CPU or DDR2 and run 2:1. Is it worth the extra money?

A whole bunch of thanks to ya!

DDR3 is definately not worth the price right now, save the money for other useful parts, like... chipset fans. Syncing only produces minor performance gains. Besides, overclocking is never exact, meaning it won't be synced anyway.

 

[Evilonigiri]

I'm going to buy a Q6600 system and thinking of overclock it to 400Mhz FSB.
Now, I'm still quite confused about the whole voltage/clock thing. My friend explained to me that it's all about performance/heat issues.
So what I understand now is that more voltage gives better stability but generates more heat and vice versa. Too much voltages might kill the component and that is pretty much all to it. Please verify. I've always had the fear to change voltages. Maybe a better understanding can eliminate it.

The FSB multiplier for Q6600 is 4, right? 400FSB -> 1600MHZ with multiplier of 9 gives 3.6Ghz clockspeed.

Should I go for DDRIII-1600 and run 1:1 with the CPU or DDR2 and run 2:1. Is it worth the extra money?

A whole bunch of thanks to ya!

Apparently, you're a little confused. You should read the C2D Ocing guide here before doing anything.

Intel is quad pumped, so if you set an FSB of 400MHz, the effective speed is 1600MHz. Setting the FSB to ram ratio to 1:1 means that if you're running 400MHz FSB, you're running 400MHz ram. However, since it's DDR, DDR2, or DDR3, you'll have to multiply 400MHz x 2 = 800MHz effective ram speed (DDR stands for Double Data Rate). THis means DDR2 800MHz is plenty, and you can be sure that the FSB can do 400MHz (1600MHz effective). Running DDR3 1600 at 800MHz is a total waste, not to mention that DDR3 costs a fortune with little performance boost. So stick with DDR2.

 

[Dunkel]

Yeah, what he said.