*Official Retail G0 Q6600 Overclocking Thread*

[sesdave]

Dear sesdave,
I will try the the 1:1, I would have the same DDR speed of 900 MHz. 8x 450 ~ 3.6 ~ DDR2 900 MHz. That would work for the DDR. I have tested this memory, maybe a year now, and this is the best I can run 4 sticks with a somewhat acceptable timing.

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I am slightly confused - what speed are you trying to get the q6600 to run at for 24/7 operation. I will happily run mine 24/7 @3.6 without any power management as it only idles at 34c. Sure it increases under application/game load but nothing like running prime95 all day. As long as you have decent CPU HSF and a good airflow through the case it will be fine. What HSF have you got as 50c is a bit high with nothing running and underclocked.I would expect it to be somewhere between 30-40 on idle allowing for different batches.
Why you want to buy 32 bit vista when you have Vistax64 - you have a 64bit CPu and vista x64 runs fine. Seems a bit of a waste.
CPU PLL voltage is a BIOS setting on the P5K which I understand to be for fine-tuning the power supply of the q6600. Increasing the default setting can help stability of o/c with high fsb.