Help with OC on P965-DS3 with Q6600

Hello guys,

After days of reading through forums and sites, I finally decided to post my own since I was not able to find an answer for my issue.

So here is the story, I have the Gigabyte P965-DS3 3.3 board and I have a Q6600.

I am trying to get it to at least 3.2ghz or higher but I can't get anywhere close to it. Highest I was able to do is 300x9 and it only worked once. I'm reading all these success stories, people overclocking their Q6600 to 3.6ghz and I can barely hit 2.7ghz. I tried playing with the voltages but no matter what, the PC reboots, runs for a couple of seconds and then reboots again. This time the settings are set back to default.

I would really appreciate any help with this, specifically with the P965-DS3 boards. If there is anyone who has the same mobo and has a Q6600, please let me know what your settings are in the BIOS.

Here is the Mobo
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813128012

Here is the Memory
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820231166

Here is the Power Supply
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6817182032

If there is any other info you guys need, let me know.

Again, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

I had a Q6600 G0 on that board and was limited to 3.0 GHz. Do you have Speedstep turned off? What kind of heatsink do you have? Is it a G0 stepping (SLACR) Q6600? What are your temps like?