*Official Retail G0 Q6600 Overclocking Thread*

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Originally Posted by fatguy1992

I just remembered that I could get my mobo to post with a FSB above 405 before, then I uped the FSB strap to north bridge to 333 and it works great:yepp:. Have u tried uping the FSB strap to north bridge?

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Yes, my strap is at 333.

My Q6600 can't go past 3.6GHz... I think I degraded it from HEAT?????
VID: 1.2125v

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Originally Posted by lowtcell

Yes, my strap is at 333.

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Dumb question: witch is better, 266 or 333?

Mine Q6600 can do 450x8 @ strap 266 prime stable.

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Originally Posted by Viper.Br

Dumb question: witch is better, 266 or 333?

Mine Q6600 can do 450x8 @ strap 266 prime stable.

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The lower, the better. The lower strap, the lower board timings, the better performance.

Thanks, that's what I've imagined. But I want to push my fsp above 450 I'd better use strap 333 right? Which voltages should I rase besides FSB? PLL? NB?

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Originally Posted by Viper.Br

Thanks, that's what I've imagined. But I want to push my fsp above 450 I'd better use strap 333 right? Which voltages should I rase besides FSB? PLL? NB?

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Mostly vNB and VTT, also you may have to play around the GTL settings on both sides... easy with the vPLL as it'd damage the CPU in certain mobos (e.g. DFI LT/UT series).

This morning I amllost got 4.1GHz, 4095MHz LOL. I had the FSB @ 455, but as soon as I put it to 460 it would post, but crash while loading windows :(. I rasied the volts higher and higher, but still not stable :(. I'll wait till I get a delta 4,600 rpm fan before I try it again, as my temps were getting very hot :(.

http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...rPI1MScore.jpg

http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...rPI2MScore.jpg

http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...rPI8MScore.jpg

I was running out of time so i didn't run any more benchmarks.

heres with my Q6600
http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/8315/4166xk8.jpg

Whats your cooling?

And VID?

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Originally Posted by whe3ls

heres with my Q6600

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That's an alright suicide shot but what can it really do? ;)

I Can't get more than 3.1GHZ @ 1.3750 stable.
3.2, 3.3, 3.5ghz no post at all.
3.6ghz ran only @ 1.5750 but not even 10 second prime stable, think I need 1.7v to get it stable !
Heat is not that high since I get 37 max on full load (TRUE-120, Akasa 1700RPM fan)
I've been non-stop working for 5 hours and read too much but no success, O/C on EP45-DS3 is really complicated and differs from other boards.

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Originally Posted by ihatbs

I Can't get more than 3.1GHZ @ 1.3750 stable.
3.2, 3.3, 3.5ghz no post at all.
3.6ghz ran only @ 1.5750 but not even 10 second prime stable, think I need 1.7v to get it stable !
Heat is not that high since I get 37 max on full load (TRUE-120, Akasa 1700RPM fan)
I've been non-stop working for 5 hours and read too much but no success, O/C on EP45-DS3 is really complicated and differs from other boards.

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The board takes a little getting used to at first. Part of that is getting the strap set correctly for your setup. That's the two jumpers right by the pci-e slot. I set mine in the 266-333 position as shown in the manual. What bios are you on? There's a beta I'm using, A7514IMS.143 dated July, 28. I can host it for download if anyone's interested. Here are some screens... cpuz and load temps first
http://images6.theimagehosting.com/p45neo3.th.JPG
and bios screens including health monitor
http://images6.theimagehosting.com/3385.th.jpg http://images6.theimagehosting.com/3387.th.jpg http://images6.theimagehosting.com/3390.th.jpg http://images6.theimagehosting.com/3394.th.jpg http://images6.theimagehosting.com/3396.th.jpg

I Don't think I've that jumper thing in my mobo, I will keep testing again today.

Thanks for posting your settings.

Yeah I suppose you wouldn't have those. It's an msi thing. Still strap is very important for oc success, experiment a little.

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Originally Posted by fatguy1992

Whats your cooling?

And VID?

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water and 1.2125

and proof of vid
http://img396.imageshack.us/img396/4097/39wy4.jpg

that was on my old max extreme im real starting to hate this 780i. nothing is really stable past 3.6

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Originally Posted by loonym

That's an alright suicide shot but what can it really do? ;)

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I don't see the point of high suicide shot, to me it's pointless if it's not prime stable.

Dont you love the 4ghz on air but they never show prime pics.

One minute of Prime @ 3.9GHz isn't very convincing...

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Originally Posted by Loser777

One minute of Prime @ 3.9GHz isn't very convincing...

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lol same thing I was thinking

Hell, I'm still trying to figure out what's wrong with my 3 hours Prime Stable then BAM Crash problem.

Same here Prime stable for 2 hour straight (400x9), I shut it down went to sleep. Start Priming the next day and it didn’t even last 5 minutes...

Then it just keeps freezing continuously between 5-10 minutes. Not sure how the hell it even pass 2 hours in the first place…

This is some scores I did with 1.28vcore a while ago with a 1.2125v VID (2nd pic has a long run prime):

*****Q6600 1.28vcore 400*9 3600Mhz and DDR2@1201 (Performance Level 5-6): new config


http://i26.tinypic.com/2cr6q6g.png


*****Q6600 1.28vcore 400*9 3600Mhz and DDR2@1066 (Performance Level 6-7):


http://i29.tinypic.com/28sa5io.png[/QUOTE]

Current Setup 24/7 with 1200DDR2:
http://i28.tinypic.com/28lcjgk.png

wow i have the same batch but the lowest i can seem to go is 1.344 @ 400x9. hmmm...

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Originally Posted by whe3ls

wow i have the same batch but the lowest i can seem to go is 1.344 @ 400x9. hmmm...

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Thats probably the extra fine tune I have on the DFi board in comparison to the eVga.

I have all GTL settings fine tuned for the Quad.

Wow those vcore's are super low for 3.6.

How'd you manage that?
Mostly because of the DFI and Low Vid?