Hey guys. I've had this rig a while now and initially I had it OC'd no problem at 3.4 ghz; one day in the recent years it failed to post (for whatever reason, might have changed something) and I have not needed to go beyond stock speed until now.
I recently purchased a 6850 to get myself back upto speed on a budget - OC'd it to a nice speed and I'm running BF3 on ultra at 50+ FPS...but it's bottlenecking and I'm getting incremental periods of freezing up despite the great FPS.
My rig is as follows
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Energy Efficient 95W edition Socket 775 (2.40GHz) G0 Stepping L2 8MB Cache OEM Processor + Tuniq Tower Cooler
Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R Socket 775 8 Channel Audio ATX Motherboard
Corsair 520W HX Series Modular PSU - ATX12V v2.2 APFC
Sapphire HD 6850 Vapor-X Edition 1GB GDDR5 Dual DVI HDMI DisplayPort PCI-E Graphics Card
Corsair TW3X4G1333C9A XMS3 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3 Memory (9-9-9-24 1333mhz)
No matter what I set in the bios, cpu-z, windows and the boot page all show my CPU to remain at stock speed. If I try a different multiplier then it reduces the default clock as per stock FSB - despite the correct clock being visible in BIOS at 3.2ghz (or whatever I set it to). Bios seems to react appropriately in that it will set certain settings to default should they fail post, but refuses to activate whatever working setup I go with.
I have managed to get an active 3ghz clock, but I'm not sure what I did and I have failed to even recreate it. I have flashed my Bios from F12 down to F10 incrementally and tried at each step to no avail.
I am a novice when it comes to OCing CPUs and I will admit that I'm more than likely not doing things very accurately, yet not matter what guide or tutorial I follow I keep running into the same problem.
Any help would be very much appreciated as I would very much like to get into the mid 3ghz range
I recently purchased a 6850 to get myself back upto speed on a budget - OC'd it to a nice speed and I'm running BF3 on ultra at 50+ FPS...but it's bottlenecking and I'm getting incremental periods of freezing up despite the great FPS.
My rig is as follows
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Energy Efficient 95W edition Socket 775 (2.40GHz) G0 Stepping L2 8MB Cache OEM Processor + Tuniq Tower Cooler
Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R Socket 775 8 Channel Audio ATX Motherboard
Corsair 520W HX Series Modular PSU - ATX12V v2.2 APFC
Sapphire HD 6850 Vapor-X Edition 1GB GDDR5 Dual DVI HDMI DisplayPort PCI-E Graphics Card
Corsair TW3X4G1333C9A XMS3 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3 Memory (9-9-9-24 1333mhz)
No matter what I set in the bios, cpu-z, windows and the boot page all show my CPU to remain at stock speed. If I try a different multiplier then it reduces the default clock as per stock FSB - despite the correct clock being visible in BIOS at 3.2ghz (or whatever I set it to). Bios seems to react appropriately in that it will set certain settings to default should they fail post, but refuses to activate whatever working setup I go with.
I have managed to get an active 3ghz clock, but I'm not sure what I did and I have failed to even recreate it. I have flashed my Bios from F12 down to F10 incrementally and tried at each step to no avail.
I am a novice when it comes to OCing CPUs and I will admit that I'm more than likely not doing things very accurately, yet not matter what guide or tutorial I follow I keep running into the same problem.
Any help would be very much appreciated as I would very much like to get into the mid 3ghz range
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