*Official Retail G0 Q6600 Overclocking Thread*

[Matt C.]

how does my OC look?

I think i got a crap of a g0

im at 3454Mhz
1.4625v Vcore
its orthos stable for about 2hours so far.
temps are 69,65,69,62

my VID is 1.275v
FSB is 1.5v

im on a 680i board with a Tuniq and MX-1 Paste.

ive got it to boot at 3.6 and do small things. but that was with a 1.4750 Vcore.


it seems after reading in this thread that i should have either lower temps or a higher clock, where im at right now.

[nugzo]

how does my OC look?

I think i got a crap of a g0

im at 3454Mhz
1.4625v Vcore
its orthos stable for about 2hours so far.
temps are 69,65,69,62

my VID is 1.275v
FSB is 1.5v

im on a 680i board with a Tuniq and MX-1 Paste.

ive got it to boot at 3.6 and do small things. but that was with a 1.4750 Vcore.


it seems after reading in this thread that i should have either lower temps or a higher clock, where im at right now.

I had a couple of L723A's that sucked. What Batch is yours? What are your other voltages. Are you familiar with the 680i"s? if not, list your bios settings.

[Matt C.]

im trying 3.6 as we speak. im on my laptop while this is going through Orthos. im hoping it will stay stable.

temps arent going above 67*C. ambient room temp is 23*C

batch: L723A674

right now im on:

400x9
Vcore: 1.400
FSB: 1.5
NB: 1.55
SB: 1.50
NB & SB: 1.55


and no im not TOO familiar with the 680i. ive only had it running about 4 days now. im steadily learning from this thread lol

edit* speed fan is reporting a 1.39Vcore. CPUz is reporting a 1.382Vcore. i used a #2 pencil earlier to do the pencil mod.

[Boyu]

update
L724,3.8 Ghz
Small FTT

[scotch]

But, it's a L724A ou L724B??

[Boyu]

But, it's a L724A ou L724B??

sorry it's L724A

[scotch]

okay
I'm french, sorry for my bad english

I have a Q6600 G0 L724B
actually he works at 3.33 1.41V fsb 370, ram @370 3-3-3-3 1T Stable OOCT test 30min
But he run on DFI SNF680i Sli and she's hard to configure
there are much options which I doesn't understand
does you could say to me has what serve the options in black?
Voltage Control page:
CPU VID control
CPU VID Special Add
CPU Drive Strength
DRAM Drive Strength
DRAM Voltage control
NB Core Voltage
SB Core Voltage
SB Dual Voltage
LDT Voltage Control
CPU VTT Voltage
GTL REF Voltage Control
CPU GTL 1 REF Volt
CPU GTL 0/2/3 REF Volt
North BrF1 e GTL REF Volt

Thx

[BigRigDriver]

Update on mine: L723A963

http://home.comcast.net/~bigrigdriver/Q6600.jpg

[ChkDsk]

L726B027 - 1.43V
P5K Premium

1 round of Prime95 - Large FFT's
2 full rounds of Prime95 ~6,5hr- Large FFT's

[spajdr]

didnt tested yet, but i have L729A959 package date 08/29/07 here.

[stone_cold_Jimi]

L726B027 - 1.43V
P5K Premium

Oh yes, nice. I have L726B053, just waiting for the mobo. What cooling are you using?

[ChkDsk]

Oh yes, nice. I have L726B053, just waiting for the mobo. What cooling are you using?

I'm using watercooling;

Tubing: 1/2" ID
Pump: Swiftech MCP655
CPU: Swiftech Storm
VGA: Swiftech MCW55
Rad: BlackIce Xtreme III

[spajdr]

Another piece for test L720B037 PACK DATE 08/15/07

[Hazzan]

@spajdr : Run it !!! I want to see B in action

[spajdr]

Hazzan : will do
CPU-Z shows that i have 6x multiplier, while i have multiplier disabled, so it should show 9x, default vcore flying btw 1.15 and 1.2V, is that normal default voltage? looks like mobo dont support this piece very well :o

[scotch]

Hazzan, what's cooling for your max screen Q6600 G0 @4680??

[JonnyG]

Same chip as mine vende][a, but didnt give me much luck. Also got a B chip with same pack date from same store. Does bascially the same. Both have high VID's 1.3125v and 1.325v. Both im struggling For much better than 3.33Ghz prime stable (small ftts). They require like 1.42v to get prime stable at 3.4GHz, this is what most take to do 3.6Ghz or more. Not getting it much over 3.5Ghz area for benching. Im hoping its my board playing up. Will be interesting to see how u get on.

[moons_shadow]

Hey, I've finally got my computer together after lots of waiting for parts. The bad news is though I wasn't initially impressed with the Q6600 the speeds weren't as blazing as I had initially hoped. Then I was getting ready to overclock and I noticed that my clockspeeds were way to slow! According to CPU-Z it's running at 1.6 Ghz (267x6) instead of the standard 2.4 it should come at. Does anyone know why this would be? It's been a while since I've built a computer so this whole process I've been afraid of damaging the parts with my undeft handling. The computer runs without any problems and I do realize that if I damaged anything by rough handling or overtightening then it wouldn't run at all, still though I'm paranoid. Anyone want to tell me what they make of this?

I'm going to start the overclocking and report what I find, but any insight as to why my processor is throttled back by 33% from default would probably be pretty valuable.

[Rilla927]

@moons shadow

That's what CPU-Z says for my quad G0 too! What the heck is going on?

[Boyu]

Disable EIST in bios.

[noroger]

Q6600 L723A835
Asus P5B (1.6V bios, ~1.47V idle, nice huh?)
Corsair XMS2 CL5
500W Ultra PSU
water...

[Rilla927]

Disable EIST in bios.

I disabled it in the bios and I have been monitoring it with CPU-Z and I still get the same results. This really bothers me, is there something wrong with the chip.

[crossg]

Not at all. Go into to bios and disable C1E support as well. Load up your CPU and watch CPU-Z jump to 2400mhz.

[Rilla927]

@crossg

Wow, thanks it worked. I just got this thing up and running two days ago on a open air station, everything at stock cuz I wanted to run some stress tests before I install everything in the case and OC.

Core Temp 0.95.4 says 23, 26, 28, 30. I wonder how much they will increase after going in the PC-A70B. This is all new to me but it's fun!

[moons_shadow]

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.