Trying 3Ghz Q6600 on the Asus striker extreme

[David1542]

Hi, this is the first manual overclocking I have done and I know the basics of it such as raise the fsb and the vcore when it wont boot and try raising the other voltages if you hit a wall and this brings me toy my other questions.

I have got to 2.81Ghz stable, I could not get past 2.70Ghz without raising the other voltages (nb sb vtt so forth) here is a picture:



( I also only ran prime for a hour, I needed to go to bed)

I can't get to 3Ghz it simply wont boot and my other question is how much should I raise the nb,sb,vtt and memory voltages what is the limit that you should stay away from?

Also I put the vCore at 1.3V and it is not showing that in windows it is showing 1.264 or in cpu-z (I know dont trust cpu-z) 1.84. is this normal?

Any help is greatly welcomed if you have any sugestions on what fsb or voltages tell me and I will be more than glad to try them out.


Asus Striker Extreme
Q6600
ABS BZ900 'Piperock' modular
ZEROtherm BTF90 92mm cooler
4x 1gb Corsair Dominator (2x of the TWIN2X2048-6400C4D 4 sticks total)
2x eVGA 8800GTS's in Sli
Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit

 

[Lupiron]

First off, you have a 680i chipset. They are Renown for not clocking high with q6x00s. 2.85 or so is good, lol!

I take it you dont even post? That's what happens. You'll have to wander over the chart to find a FSB combination that it likes.

CPUz is telling the truth. Thats your real time VCore Voltage. Voltage for your processor is found like this!

Bios VCore! Example 1.3000 Like your VID.
Then VDrop applies. So in windows it will be 1.264
Then VDroop applies when your run Prime 95 on all the cores. It will go down to 1.225.

So its Bios VCore, Minus Intel spec VDrop, Minus intel spec VDroop, (which seems to vary board to board, lol!) And that equals LOADED VCore.

The only recommendation I can make is set the Bios VCore to 1.4500 and the CPU Multiplier to x 9 and start at like 315 FSB. The FSB Voltage should be fine at that low FSB. (315 x 9 = 2835 processor speed.) Thats close to where you are now.

Then just go up in FSB points by 5 or so until it posts! It may not boot, but we want it to post. Once you are near a value that lets ya post, shifting the FSB by one or two points a direction may help stabilize it.

A VID 1.3000 like yours should get to 3.2 on 1.3750 Loaded or less!

Once you get it working, the goal then will be to lower the VCore to its minimum voltage, and still pass prime 95s small ffts for 8 hours or more! So if all is well when you manage to get into windows, you can later just lower the VCore a notch or two, test for an hour, then lower it again, until it fails at near 1 hour, then up the VCore a single notch and test for 8 hours!

You may wanna sync the RAM to the FSB, and leave it at spd'd timings until you get the CPU stable.
--Lupi!

 

[FHDelux]

I had a Q6600 overclocked to 3.2 on a P35 chipset once, wanted to go SLI so i bought a striker extreme motherboard, I couldn't get the processor much past stock at all without having instability issues. The 680i chipset is a horrible chipset for quad core CPUs and overclocking. If you can get anything over stock clock speed stabily consider yourself lucky. Oh and yes the voltage readings are weird on that motherboard except when you use the NVidia utility which is unstable at best. I returned that striker extreme and will never again buy an nvidia chipset unless intel REALLY screws up.

 

[warezme]

a 680i should easily OC to 3Ghz no problem without a voltage increase or a slight one for stability.

However, Like Lupiron mentioned it depends on the series of 680i board that you have. The early models DO NOT OC quadcores beyond 3.0Ghz very well and have a limit of 3.2Ghz. I used to have one and EVGA swaped it out for a Revision A1 in my case which would OC until the CPU cried uncle.

You need to check the revision of your board and get on your manufacture forums if you suspect this is happening. Not booting at 3Ghz is very suspicious since its such a mild OC.

 

[Lupiron]

yeah, thats odd. I wonder what they got wrong with the chipset? I had an 680i and sold it! Gets 2.85, lol! However, I have learned alot since then, and am gonna go to my friends place for the night anyways, so I plan on seeing if I can now get it over 2.85 and still be stable!

Wish me luck, as I wish you 680i OCers Luck!

--Lupi!

 

[David1542]

Well, im not sure about the revision I have but what would be a good est of what voltages I would need to use to get 3Ghz

 

[grieve]

If someone finds the winning combination of Q6600/Striker Extreme please post it...
I couldnt get mine over 2.85 iether...after a few days i said F it and run at 2.7

 

[dagger]

680i is 680i. Revisions don't help much when the hardware is still the same.

 

[Evilonigiri]

Indeed. I would stay away from Nvidia chipsets these days. That means staying away from SLI as well.

 

[David1542]

If someone finds the winning combination of Q6600/Striker Extreme please post it...
I couldnt get mine over 2.85 iether...after a few days i said F it and run at 2.7

in your sig it says your at 3Ghz, status update 2.92 and stable (tested 8 hours in prime 95)

 

[Lupiron]

Hehe, you are now on the upper end of over clocks with that board! Yee haw!

--Lupi

 

[warezme]

680i is 680i. Revisions don't help much when the hardware is still the same.

No they are not the same and a revision makes a BIG difference. And you would know because????, since I see X38 on your sig.

 

[dagger]

No they are not the same and a revision makes a BIG difference. And you would know because????, since I see X38 on your sig.

Worked on friend's 680i. She was having trouble overclocking. It's horrible. Then, people often post here about 680i when they run into trouble ocing, which is often. Read up.

 

[steeda]

You guys got to be kinding me, i got this on a p35 and it ran all day at 3.825ghz with a tuniq tower 120

www.dropshots.com/steeda1974

you should really do your home work before you ask these questions, im not knocking just simply looking at the posts. Yeah, i know its just easier to ask a question and get an answer but if you do so reading and then come with a certain question instead of general questions like how do i get a q6600 to whatever speed with this type of motherboard and ram. Here it goes:

And i dont even know much about the mobo.

increase your vcore to 1.45v then run your memory synced and auto

if its pc2-6400 then run it at 400 mhz let everything else do it on its own.

heres the key

take off all the thermal/intel bull crap in bios by selecting "disable"

that means ce1 & thermal control. I mean anything that has to do with intel

plus spectrum as well.


increase the voltage of your ram to 2.1v

increase northbridge to 1.35v-1.55v as well

that should do you for atleast 3.2ghz if not 3.6 with a 9x multi

 

[steeda]

heres what i did on air tonight

it will bench at 4.44ghz

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=361583

 

[Lupiron]

Waaaaahhhhh!!! And I was happy to eek out 3.8 on a q6600 1.2500 VID chip! Its been prime stable for 2 hours already!

I do want 4.5 Ghz, but I think it would actually explode if I tried that.

Waaaahhhh!!

(By the way, Nice!)


--Lupi

 

[iluvgillgill]

you will need a massive boost in voltage for the board to get to 3.2Ghz but of course cooling need to be consider before voltage and speed increase.

tune the vcore to 1.5v and other voltage plus 3 notches from default.and try make a big jump in FSB.few Nforce mobo are known to have a thing called FSB hole which you wont be able to boot at those speed but anything over or under can.

but i would like to stress again you must have a good air flow inside your case.

 

[steeda]

If he listens to me he can get 3.2-3.6ghz easily with my suggestions, shouldnt have to go over 1.53v in the bios to do it, but Iluvgillgill is right, I have a tuniq tower, which is really good and I never got over 65c at 3.6, he should be able to do 3.420ghz with only 1.45-1.48v and stay under 70c

 

[David1542]

I will try all your sugestions, and again thanks!

 

[steeda]

let me know how it works out?

 

[David1542]

Steeda- it did not post. and I am still tweeking it but I have got to 3.05Ghz but it freezes upon loading into the os.

 

[steeda]

did you set the memory to sync then auto, the take the memory to 378mhz, put the memory voltage to 2.1v take the multiplier to 9x. What is the memory that you have in it? Maybe you have bad ram?

 

[steeda]

I just took a look at your memory divider in your picture. run your memory at a 1:1 ratio or 4:5 or 8:10 ratio, your divider is one that I have never seen and doesnt make sense to me. I think I have figured it out. so keep your memory at those dividers as well and you should be fine

 

[David1542]

I am running it in sync and corsair dominators.

 

[steeda]

something is not right with your memory configuration, b/c you should not have 11:13 ratio, get the ratio to 1:1/4:5/8:10 and let me know how its doing?

mikemischler@hotmail.com

get a hold of me there and I will foward you some screen shots of what you should be setting it at in the next couple of days and hopefully we can figure it out by monday.