*Official Retail G0 Q6600 Overclocking Thread*

[binormalkilla]

Here's something I found a little strange. I have the MSI P35 mb, and was running 3 HD's, and 1 optical from the 4 ICH9 ports. I added a 4th HD and moved the optical drive to the extra marvell SATA port, which I had to enable. Hit the power, and the damn thing wouldn't boot! In the end, I had to remove a few sticks of memory and up the memory voltage by another 0.1v before it would boot with all 4 sticks.

Seems like activating the marvell port is causing a small voltage drop across the dimm ports. I guess it makes sense considering the laws of physics, but you'd think the MB would just draw more power from the PSU to support the additional requirements.

Anyway, just sharing since I thought it was a little strange (and kind of frustrating!).

Btw, kicked my FSB up to 450mhz x8 and same voltage on the CPU. This thing runs great!! Still haven't lapped it yet, and my core temps never get over 59c.

- Sker

That's strange you mention that, as I ran into the same thing with my single HDD (when I first bought my P5K) I couldn't boot with the HDD in a certain SATA port....can't remember which one that is.....
I also use the Marvell NIC port because I've never liked Realtek's drivers....
I find it hard to believe that it's actually a physical hardware issue. I hope that the engineers took the voltage/current allocation into account when they arranged the devices with the southbridge and northbridge, but I guess it's possible.

My G0 arrives tomorrow and it's OCIng time! I'll be sure to post my results.
Anyone running a Zalman CNPS9700? I may get an Enzotech Ultra-x if it doesn't cut the mustard, but I'd like to compare with the rest of the class