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I believe everyone on here accepts Prime 95 for at least 8 hours before calling it stable. Others might say 12 hours.

I usually run mine 8 or longer.

Ace, you think youre 4.2ghz q6600 is due to using only 2 sticks of ddr2? If you added another 2, it might be unstable? I'm thinking my chip has a shot at 4.0 ghz ( if I play with the settings, @...

I'm getting 13.771s @ 3.7ghz. I'd imagine 300 mhz would shave off .8 seconds or so....

Got some New OCs for my q6600. I think I lucked out with this quad, but I need another fan on my rad. I'm now putting ICE on 1/3 of it. Not the best idea, but its temporary. LOL!

3.825ghz Prime...

Don't worry about it. I haven't done any hardcore OCing since using jumpers on motherboards. Now thats old school! This is my first q6600 and probably my last unless I build ANOTHER computer in the...

In order...

Thanks crossg, those are a few of the settings I honestly did not no what to do with.

Fallwind, thats a good idea. It honestly did not cross my mind to figure out the max fsb since...

I have active cooling, the antec spotcool fan, pushing air over the northbridge and ram. It works, at least I hope so. Some air is better than no air!

I will try to crank up the NB a little....
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Since this thread is about OCing, i'll ask a question.

For all you P5k Deluxe owners, I have a set up w/ crucial ballistix ddr2 800 ram (just so you know) and a q6600 G0. I can't get anythign past...

Since I posted a 3.7ghz G0 that was prime 95 stable for 1 hour, here we go, 8 hours prime stable and under 65*C (15 degree correction for speedfan):
http://i14.tinypic.com/4lj1zk6.jpg...

This is with a 1.525 (I think ) V core.
http://i16.tinypic.com/631qtjt.jpg
http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=234377

I'm going to try to push to 3.8 ghz later on after more stability...

My first aggressive OC since they moved from mobo jumpers to BIOS:
http://i9.tinypic.com/67d0kra.jpg

I did this in about 15 minutes. I have NOT tested for stability. Just testing to see if it...