E6600 + Asus 680i Striker Extreme

[optical10]

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.

Hi REVHEAD & Guys I'm finally able to test after hassle in shipping the G0 direct from Intel. They confirmed they DON'T change steppings even though you have a good reason for the better stepping like failure of one of the threads at modest OC'ing, so I pleaded & got my way, but it took them longer as it came from their manu factory way east, that is it had to be made to order.

REVHEAD Can I ask you what settings on the 1.2HT worked for you? Also did you go straight to 3.6GHz onwards from stock? tThe reason I ask this is that many forums talk about holes on the Striker & Q6600 combo, did you find that that after pushing passed the lower GHz things got better or should I do the methodical incremental slow but sure increase method from 2.4GHz in 10MHz increments?

I agree with you about this excellant forum as Intel OC'ing is a steeper learning curve than AMD, especially with the speed of RAM & chipset innovation in the intel space and I'm just finding my feet on this my 2nd Intel OC after the excellant Asus P5B.

One last question guyz about safe Voltages. In Overvoltage my bios VCore input was 1.54v to get 3.2GHz x 9 multi FSB 1424MHz Linked to the RAM @ 2.2 & RAM FSB 890, FSB Ratio Auto [4:5 according to CPU-Z]. But in the bios Voltage moniters VCore reads only 1.50v? Which reading do I trust Overvoltage, Voltage Monitor or is there a fullproof Utility in Dos or Windows I should be using instead?

Hope these questions arn't to n00b but I need to learn without overcooking things, literally.

Cheerz Optical10