*Official Retail G0 Q6600 Overclocking Thread*

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Hi, this might sound like a dumb question but are the voltages people are reporting the voltage that they set in the bios or the voltage that CPU-z reports? I'm asking because I'm having some pretty severe vdroop on my pk5 deluxe. I get about 0.07 V drop idle and 0.122 V drop under load. I'm still kind of inexperienced at this so I'm still figuring this out.

If your curious at what I'm doing to it now currently I'm stress testing it at 388x9 at 1.45 in the bios (so the Vcore in cpu-z is 1.328)
temps between 52~55C

But I've only been running it Prime95 for about 20 minutes so far.

Also who has used the pencil mod on a P5K deluxe and got good results with it? It seems like lots of people are reporting not needing a vdroop mod, I guess I'm just unlucky.

Most people report both Bios voltage and load/real voltage. That vdroop seems severe. Do you have the Voltage Damper enabled? What version of CPU-Z are you using. The newest vesion 1.41 reports vcore very well, the earlier versions were somewhat unreliable for vcore. You can use AI Suite or PC Probe to give you a good idea of what the voltage is loaded and unloaded.