Quote Originally Posted by nugzo View Post
After re-reading my post, i may have come across like an azz. Sorry about that. Is this your first quad g0? If so i'm jealous. It took me 4 to get a good one. Good luck on 3.8+. As soon as i see some new batches that are doing well, i'll buy a couple more in hopes of a good one. 3600mhz was my goal. Now that i see some stable 4ghz on water, it has me itching again. I just cant stop. Is there a methadone clinic for Overclockers? I need help!
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 future, but by then, I'll get a penryn.

I wish I had that much cash to buy a few q6600s to test, but since I'm a student, I honestly don't have the time/cash to do that.

I saw a lot of people getting more than 3.6 (more from my point of view that is) and figured I had a shot as well at closing the 4.0ghz gap.

In case I didn't mention, I'm OCing on water w/ a triple rad and only the CPU in the loop. At least heat isn't my enemy.

Oh, one other thing, my problem might lie in that I am trying to OC w/ 4 x 1 gig sticks instead of the usually 2. I've heard of problems due to this.

@ fallwind, I got 450x6 to post. Tried to be crazy and 475mhz failed. tried 460 and that failed too, even with 5-5-5-15. Do I need to up the voltage of the ram to support the higher mhz? Right now, I have 450x8 running prime stable for 20 mintues. I know thats not stable, but its a start. At least it didn't fail in 2 minutes like before .

@ Moons_shadow, what is your goal speed? I'm using ddr2 800 crucial ballistix ram and I am getting 3.7ghz on my quad. I can't go above this, not sure why yet. A lot of the 4.0 ghz appear to be using 1066.

I haven't see a near 4.0 ghz OC w/ ddr2 800 (maybe thats my problem, lol), but I could be wrong. Anyone out there have 3.8ghz+ w/ ddr2 800?