Hey all, thankyou for taking interest in my thread, I am looking for some general help and tips on how to overclock my Q6600 to 3.8GHz or higher for benching at a lower voltage.
I will start by listing my hardware:
Gigabyte X38-DS5 DDR2 Motherboard
8 GB OCZ Reaper @ 1035MHz 5-5-5-15 (2.35v)
OCZ GameXstream 700w PSU
250GB, 320GB Seagate Hard Drives
Q6600 @ 3.72GHz 1.325 VID (1.7v) LOL! Temps: 34,34,35,36! - Weird!
ATI Radeon 3870X2 @ stock
Sound card etc.
Ok, what I am obviously concerned about is my crazy voltage on the CPU (1.7v) and the fact that my temps are so low! I have left all other voltage settings on Normal as they don't seem to make any effect when using lower voltage, but I will list the options in my BIOS available and what I have them on:
CPU Voltage: 1.7v Frequency= 3.72GHz 9.0x Multiplier
FSB= 414MHz 9.0x
PCI-E Frequency: Auto
C.I.A.2: Disabled
Performance Enhance: Standard
RAM: 1035 5-5-5-15 2.35v - (voltage too high) - My motherboard has a habbit of automatically lowering the default voltage to 1.8v from 2.2v
Advanced RAM timings: Auto
DDR2 Voltage: 2.35v
PCI-E Voltage: Normal
FSB Overvoltage: Normal
MCH Overvoltage conrol: Normal
MCH Referance voltage: Normal
DDR Referance voltage: Normal
DDR2 Termination: Normal
Load Line Calibration: Enabled!
VID: 1.325V
Idle temps: 33-37c on all 4 cores.
- These are all the BIOS settings I have for tweaking etc, there may be an advanced menu? But I would really like some help at getting my CPU to 3.8GHz+ at a much lower voltage if I can, or is it just a bad CPU? I have not Orthosed the CPU at these settings yet but it seems to be stable in Games and Benchmarks etc, thankyou for your help! - Alex.
I will start by listing my hardware:
Gigabyte X38-DS5 DDR2 Motherboard
8 GB OCZ Reaper @ 1035MHz 5-5-5-15 (2.35v)
OCZ GameXstream 700w PSU
250GB, 320GB Seagate Hard Drives
Q6600 @ 3.72GHz 1.325 VID (1.7v) LOL! Temps: 34,34,35,36! - Weird!
ATI Radeon 3870X2 @ stock
Sound card etc.
Ok, what I am obviously concerned about is my crazy voltage on the CPU (1.7v) and the fact that my temps are so low! I have left all other voltage settings on Normal as they don't seem to make any effect when using lower voltage, but I will list the options in my BIOS available and what I have them on:
CPU Voltage: 1.7v Frequency= 3.72GHz 9.0x Multiplier
FSB= 414MHz 9.0x
PCI-E Frequency: Auto
C.I.A.2: Disabled
Performance Enhance: Standard
RAM: 1035 5-5-5-15 2.35v - (voltage too high) - My motherboard has a habbit of automatically lowering the default voltage to 1.8v from 2.2v
Advanced RAM timings: Auto
DDR2 Voltage: 2.35v
PCI-E Voltage: Normal
FSB Overvoltage: Normal
MCH Overvoltage conrol: Normal
MCH Referance voltage: Normal
DDR Referance voltage: Normal
DDR2 Termination: Normal
Load Line Calibration: Enabled!
VID: 1.325V
Idle temps: 33-37c on all 4 cores.
- These are all the BIOS settings I have for tweaking etc, there may be an advanced menu? But I would really like some help at getting my CPU to 3.8GHz+ at a much lower voltage if I can, or is it just a bad CPU? I have not Orthosed the CPU at these settings yet but it seems to be stable in Games and Benchmarks etc, thankyou for your help! - Alex.