**Official ABIT IP-35 Pro Review/Overclock/Guide Thread**

[smashhell]

that is the VID of your cpu so it will only allow that to be the lowest...my VID for my Q6600 is 1.275v...that is my lowest selection.

i think intel displays a max of 1.35 for a Q6600.

Ahhh .... so the lower the VID you got,

the better it is?

Thanks or the answer !

[politenessman]

Ahhh .... so the lower the VID you got,

the better it is?

Thanks or the answer !

the better it is for what?

there was/is a legend that if you have a low vid, that its a good overclocker. the only rhing that a low vid means is exactly what it is meant to be - it will run the default speed stable, at that vcore. the only other correlation i know of is that quads with low vid generally run much hotter at higher than default vcore than quads with higher vid, ie my 1.2v vid chip runs hotter at 1.3v vcore than some other guy's 1.275 vid chip does at 1.3v vcore.

[smashhell]

the better it is for what?

there was/is a legend that if you have a low vid, that its a good overclocker. the only rhing that a low vid means is exactly what it is meant to be - it will run the default speed stable, at that vcore. the only other correlation i know of is that quads with low vid generally run much hotter at higher than default vcore than quads with higher vid, ie my 1.2v vid chip runs hotter at 1.3v vcore than some other guy's 1.275 vid chip does at 1.3v vcore.

Ahhh, so the Vid doesn't really matter.

I have another question.

I am running Prime95 stress test on my Q6600.

It runs 100% stress on all 4 core at first.

But on the 2nd hour, it lowered to 75% stress, with the 2nd core at 10%.

Is there anything wrong ?

Though No error is shown on Prime (I checked Round off checking)

NOTE: I clocked CPU at 3.2 (356x9), with 1.3325 Vcore.

[smashhell]

Ahhh, so the Vid doesn't really matter.

I have another question.

I am running Prime95 stress test on my Q6600.

It runs 100% stress on all 4 core at first.

But on the 2nd hour, it lowered to 75% stress, with the 2nd core at 10%.

Is there anything wrong ?

Though No error is shown on Prime (I checked Round off checking)

NOTE: I clocked CPU at 3.2 (356x9), with 1.3325 Vcore.

Anyone have an Answer ? Anyone ?

Do I not put enough voltage to CPU ?

Isn't 1.3325 enough for 3.2GHz ?

But no error is shown on Prime though ?

[Danger30Q]

Your CPU volts are extremely low for an OC of 3.2ghz. I would put it to at least 1.40V. I know most Q6600 owners with this board will go to 1.50V because the vdroop on this board is pretty big. For example, my Q6600 has almost a .06V vdroop during load which makes an effect 1.44V if I select 1.50V in BIOS.

You can safely start at 1.40V and work your way up from there. You may need to increase other voltages as well as you increase your OC.

Anyone have an Answer ? Anyone ?

Do I not put enough voltage to CPU ?

Isn't 1.3325 enough for 3.2GHz ?

But no error is shown on Prime though ?

[smashhell]

Your CPU volts are extremely low for an OC of 3.2ghz. I would put it to at least 1.40V. I know most Q6600 owners with this board will go to 1.50V because the vdroop on this board is pretty big. For example, my Q6600 has almost a .06V vdroop during load which makes an effect 1.44V if I select 1.50V in BIOS.

You can safely start at 1.40V and work your way up from there. You may need to increase other voltages as well as you increase your OC.

when one core drops off line and you have only a 75% overclock, it means your Vcore is not high enough to support the P95 event.

it also could mean that the memory or mch voltage is not sufficient.

Ahhh ....... so I don't have enough CPU voltage.

I thought I had enough seeing other people getting this speed with 1.25V.

Guess they just have a better chip ?

[Ace-a-Rue]

Ahhh ....... so I don't have enough CPU voltage.

I thought I had enough seeing other people getting this speed with 1.25V.

Guess they just have a better chip ?

every board, every cpu is different in output/performance..as my brother says, "it is what it is"!....hate that!

don't get wrapped around the axle with P95 because what voltages makes P95 to work will be overkill for many benches and standard software installed on your system....3DMark06 is the only exception where you need P95 type vcore to run the CPU core test in that bench.

[Ace-a-Rue]

Ahhh, so the Vid doesn't really matter.

I have another question.

I am running Prime95 stress test on my Q6600.

It runs 100% stress on all 4 core at first.

But on the 2nd hour, it lowered to 75% stress, with the 2nd core at 10%.

Is there anything wrong ?

Though No error is shown on Prime (I checked Round off checking)

NOTE: I clocked CPU at 3.2 (356x9), with 1.3325 Vcore.

when one core drops off line and you have only a 75% overclock, it means your Vcore is not high enough to support the P95 event.

it also could mean that the memory or mch voltage is not sufficient.