E6600 + Asus 680i Striker Extreme

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Initial tests with the E6600 were pretty dissapointing, this in the fact it didn't boot with previous running overclocks (9 x 400 nor 8 x 450), stock was fine, I installed the E6850 and flashed again and strangely enough overclocking was as straightforward as with 1303, performance rely on par with 1303 , nothing really different found in terms of overclockability... weird thing was at a certain moment I opened CPU-Z ( for a screenshot) while Asus probe was running, all the voltage/temp detections went red... weird what was this... I openend Everest home to verify my temps/voltages there, they didn't show , rebooted the pc went into bios, bump voltage readings gone... also my fan control ability from the mobo was gone... apparently a reset of the bios helped here but this weird behaviour is known to other users too so it's something to do with the bios itself...

In a nutshell : if you have one of those coppermice flash it, but if not stay with 1303

I have had the same probs with the Voltage readings as well dissapearing in bios ,but a CMOS reset soon fixed it,I have finally got my B3 Q6600 running rock solid @3.6 and played BF2 for 3 hours and 10x loop of 3Dmarks 06 and not a single crash or lockup .

My settings are 8X multi FSB 1800-1.2HT 1.85v-NB 1.45 - CPU VTT 1.45-Vcore 1.5875 ,What I have found with the quad is not so much higher voltages are required to gain stabillity on the NB/SB but the most important voltage to play with is the 1.2HT i have no idea what it does ,but it works.

I can get 3.820ghz to boot into vista but it crashes halfway thru 3DMARKS and I can get 4.05 ghz to post and allmost load into windows,but I think ill stay with 3.6 because it has taken me 4 weeks to get a decent overlcok from my Quad core ,boy are they hard to OC.

EDIT ,I would allso like to thank everyones input in this thread and other threads regarding Striker Because they have been extremely helpfull in getting the most outa my setup,comming from AMD and never owning Intel before this forum has been a saviour ,keep up the good work community .