*Official Retail G0 Q6600 Overclocking Thread*

[dogsx2]

No offense to anyone, but why do people bother to show a prime screen less than 10 hours? Is that what everyone is considering "stable" now?

No offense but it wasn't that long ago at XS that it was hard to get guys to run 32m. I could care less about prime. If it will bench then it is stable enough for me. If I thought I had to have a completely stable 10+ hours prime, mission critical system.. there is no way I would bench on it or keep always tweaking and changing settings.


XS = XtremeSystems..

[chuckbam]

No offense but it wasn't that long ago at XS that it was hard to get guys to run 32m. I could care less about prime. If it will bench then it is stable enough for me. If I thought I had to have a completely stable 10+ hours prime, mission critical system.. there is no way I would bench on it or keep always tweaking and changing settings.


XS = XtremeSystems..

Everyone has different priorities on their system. I can do over 3.6 on air. Even complete S PI and run 3DMARK06 with a crash only like one in 5.

You must have a different computer for your real system.


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[Eldonko]

Testing a lil more vcore, 1.36v, 3.76ghz. Primed an hour and a bit, good enough for me for now.

[sesdave]

Hi

Some great over clocks here in the thread :-D

I would ask though if some of you guys would be good enough to share some of your bios settings for n00bs like my self.

Posted settings I used to run 3.6 prime stable 24/7 on air a few pages back - worked for me on both deluxe and premium MB.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...postcount=1401

Note that these settings doesnt mean your CPU/MB will achieve the same or exceed it but it starts you off

Educational bedtime reading so you understand what u are doing in future
Basic overclocking guide - http://forums.hexus.net/showthread.php?t=103676
detailed reading to really understand - http://www.thetechrepository.com/showthread.php?t=195

[Duffy]

Posted settings I used to run 3.6 prime stable 24/7 on air a few pages back - worked for me on both deluxe and premium MB.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...postcount=1401

Note that these settings doesnt mean your CPU/MB will achieve the same or exceed it but it starts you off

Educational bedtime reading so you understand what u are doing in future
Basic overclocking guide - http://forums.hexus.net/showthread.php?t=103676
detailed reading to really understand - http://www.thetechrepository.com/showthread.php?t=195

Thanks I will give them a try and repot back :-)

[Duffy]

Well game them a try and had no luck would not even post with them setting :-(

tried upping the Volts but still no joy.

[cnumartyr]

3.0 GHz on Air 1.28vCore 8 hours Prime Stable.

Not a huge accomplishment.. but temps stayed below 51C on fresh AS5.

[sesdave]

Well game them a try and had no luck would not even post with them setting :-(

tried upping the Volts but still no joy.

your going to have to tweak them to whats best for your MB/CPU combo. You have an x38 - from what I have read it needs higher volt settings across the board than a P5K. Remember your CPU may not even be capable of reaching 3.6!. Read this thread on overclocking the maximus http://www.clunk.org.uk/forums/revie...ng-review.html may give you some some pointers re best settings for a x38 BIOS on an asus MB.

[petercintn]

Here's my overclock, I'm pleasantly surprised by the ram, it's overclocking well with this motherboard and may go higher, I'll find out later. This will be a 24/7 OC. The Q6600 runs about 34c at idle.

[Duffy]

your going to have to tweak them to whats best for your MB/CPU combo. You have an x38 - from what I have read it needs higher volt settings across the board than a P5K. Remember your CPU may not even be capable of reaching 3.6!. Read this thread on overclocking the maximus http://www.clunk.org.uk/forums/revie...ng-review.html may give you some some pointers re best settings for a x38 BIOS on an asus MB.

I have been reading also this thread http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=160945 for the Maximus formula SE. They have quiet alot of examples of bios setting in there, but I was wondering if they would work on my board and would the voltage seeting I have seen would be the same.

Thanks gain I will check out that link you gave me, and hopefully I will be able to report with some better success with overclocking my chip.

[Skerlnik]

I have to say these Q6600's are kind of quirky. I was doing some Prime95 testing last night, and although I can run Windows all day without a crash at 3.6ghz 1.3875 vCPU, some cores will fail the test within minutes, while others will continue without a problem for hours. All 4 cores weren't stable until I upped the voltage to 1.425. I'm feeling the need to lapp more and more since it appears that my "best" cores run the coolest, and the ones prone to failure run the warmest.

Thoughts?

[binormalkilla]

L720B024
Q6600
GB X38
Water cooled MP05SP LE Ambient ~ 12-13*C
1.7V 4213mhz 3dmark 2003

Single 8800gtx@730/1944/2322 mhz

3Dmark2006
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=3633135
6652 cpu score on water

3Dmark2003
53600


And wprime 1024m stability 4206mhz 467x9 from BIOS

Electron migration FTW!

[Eldonko]

I have to say these Q6600's are kind of quirky. I was doing some Prime95 testing last night, and although I can run Windows all day without a crash at 3.6ghz 1.3875 vCPU, some cores will fail the test within minutes, while others will continue without a problem for hours. All 4 cores weren't stable until I upped the voltage to 1.425. I'm feeling the need to lapp more and more since it appears that my "best" cores run the coolest, and the ones prone to failure run the warmest.

Thoughts?

Prime is heating up your cpu more than any app you are running and also there will be more vdroop when priming, hence the difference. Personally if I can prime a quad for an hour or 2 that is plenty for day to day tasks.

[chuckbam]

Prime is heating up your cpu more than any app you are running and also there will be more vdroop when priming, hence the difference. Personally if I can prime a quad for an hour or 2 that is plenty for day to day tasks.

I require my system to successfully Loop 3DMARK06 and Prime95 simultaneously for an extended period of time. This way you know that both the hardware and the OS are stable. All crashes are not from the CPU or Memory OC. Often, both may need tweaking. You need to look at the dump file.

Before the last update, I needed to disable the ASUS ATK-0110. It was crashing my system under stress. In my XP setup, I have a problem with the latest Soundmax driver. I need to use an earlier version.

If you find it either a memory or a cpu clock problem and want to live with it, fine. But, you know where your instability derives. I do everything I can to crash the system before I keep a setting. a sudden crash when working on an unsaved file etc is not good.

Myself, I run many programs at one time. That is one big reason I want the increased performance. Another Example of system performance is you drive setup. A computer with either or both, slow read/ writes is slow at any clock speed.

My bios reports 9x at any setting. I am running 8x 3360 MHz




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[Devious]

Water cooled, nothing special apogee with GPU and chipset in same loop.

I had it priming at 3800mhz at 1.44v when my resistor exploded, just poof and smoke, too much powa for crap asus board.

Eldonko, I have a L737B186 on its way to me, I hope it is as good as yours

[Eldonko]

Eldonko, I have a L737B186 on its way to me, I hope it is as good as yours

Heh heh yeah, clocks better than any duo Ive owned by far and its a quad. Testing max fsb next..

GL, yours should be a gooder as well.

[sesdave]

New BIOS 0404 for all you Premium owners to play with ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/asus/mb/so...5/P5K_Premium/ Havent tried it myself yet - later this evening.

[charlie]

I have an OEM week 39 in my hand... I can still smell the warm silicon

That means it was packed up like 2 weeks ago, wow!

[Hans Gruber]

I have to say these Q6600's are kind of quirky. I was doing some Prime95 testing last night, and although I can run Windows all day without a crash at 3.6ghz 1.3875 vCPU, some cores will fail the test within minutes, while others will continue without a problem for hours. All 4 cores weren't stable until I upped the voltage to 1.425. I'm feeling the need to lapp more and more since it appears that my "best" cores run the coolest, and the ones prone to failure run the warmest.

Thoughts?

I don't think your "best" cores will run at lower voltages while your weak ones will crash after a couple of minutes. I've run Prime95 for many hours and I never know which core will fail or which will fail first. On my Q6600 Go it's luck of the draw which one fails first.

[Hans Gruber]

Here's a comparison of Quad Core vs. Dual Core. More interesting, they've got the MSI P35 NEO 2 FIR vs. the Gigabyte P35 DS3.

I bought the MSI for the heat pipe cooling solution alone. I have both Gigabyte and MSI motherboards.
Tom's Hardware tests the GO Q6600

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/11/08/dual_vs_quad/

[sesdave]

Here's a comparison of Quad Core vs. Dual Core. More interesting, they've got the MSI P35 NEO 2 FIR vs. the Gigabyte P35 DS3.

I bought the MSI for the heat pipe cooling solution alone. I have both Gigabyte and MSI motherboards.
Tom's Hardware tests the GO Q6600

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/11/08/dual_vs_quad/

They both look like duff CPus - a lot of q6600 run 3.6 on - 1.4V actual and I ran my e6850 3.9 on 1.523v with air cooling.. When they say they are in danger of damaging the CPU with high volts -when they get above 1.45v like how soon. a day, a month a year? Come on - what a :banana::banana::banana::banana::banana: test ! Where's the ' lets see just how high they can go attitude'? We are overclocking here and turn over CPUs with every manufacture change of model so a short life span isnt that relevant. Its the James Dean approach - burn bright- burn fast-lol!

[charlie]

Here's a comparison of Quad Core vs. Dual Core. More interesting, they've got the MSI P35 NEO 2 FIR vs. the Gigabyte P35 DS3.

I bought the MSI for the heat pipe cooling solution alone. I have both Gigabyte and MSI motherboards.
Tom's Hardware tests the GO Q6600

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/11/08/dual_vs_quad/

they only managed to get 3.3gHz out of their G0 Q6600?

[Devious]

New water setup and a new Q6600.

FPO# L737B186 PACK DATE 10/23/07






Only been going just over an hour but nice temps and all cores are very similar. Looks promising

These L737's look like winners.

[chuckbam]

One good thing included in the Tom's Hardware article are benchmarks at different clock speeds. On this thread, all I see are CPU clock numbers. No performance measurements.

[Devious]

One good thing included in the Tom's Hardware article are benchmarks at different clock speeds. On this thread, all I see are CPU clock numbers. No performance measurements.

Thats because it is an overclocking thread not a performance thread. There are a lot of performance threads around the time a new cpu is released.