The Much Needed EVGA 680i A1 Q6600 O.C thread

[zettahertz]

I got a Q6600 with evga A1 and I am STUCK!! I can't get this fricken motherboard to even POST past 1500qfsb. It's making me mad. And the CPU has a lot of potential i know. I can only run this thing < 3.4GHz. The CPU temps r no where near high and I have a swiftech water cooling, all for basically nothing because of this crappy FSB limit.

I tried maxing out all the voltages for motherboard (FSB,SPP,MCP). tried unlinked with RAM at 800/1066. tried 3X PCIe<->MCP multipliers tried 8X CPU multiplier, turned basically everything u can disable to disabled in the overclocking menus and it still can't post at 1501qfsb. wish i can exchange and try another board.

[zettahertz]

ok... that was weird... huge FSB hole. running at 3.55 now. things in between doesn't work... whew, thought i had a dud board.

[aka1nas]

Are you running the P30 BIOS?

If that's a B3 stepping, you're probably at the limit of the chip.

You also might need to up your FSB voltage up to 1.4v to get that high.