*Official Retail G0 Q6600 Overclocking Thread*

[Lumske]

got mine, this weekend, so fare, i made it at an 3.8Ghz 3dmark06 stabil. its an Q6600 G0
i am sure temps and my ram is holdning me back. cause the ram, cant get any further then 844Mhz. soo

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got mine, this weekend, so fare, i made it at an 3.8Ghz 3dmark06 stabil. its an Q6600 G0
i am sure temps and my ram is holdning me back. cause the ram, cant get any further then 844Mhz. soo

Stepping?

[Roger_D25]

eldonko,
You got one heck of a chip there man! What are you running for motherboard?

[ragge86]

My Q6600 G0 Runs at 3,8Ghz 1,5v vcore, 100% Stable so far.
3DMark06 Stable at 4ghz, haven't tried much more yet.

[Eldonko]

eldonko,
You got one heck of a chip there man! What are you running for motherboard?

Thanks, Im quite happy with how it clocks. The last SS was with P5KC but a transistor exploded so I am using P5K now. Only 1.27-1.28v needed for 3.6G prime.

[Roger_D25]

3.6Ghz on only 1.27v-1.28v is very impressive to say the least! I'm a bit late on the C2Q bandwagon because I just got my first Q6600 on Saturday afternoon at CompUSA here in NH. Fortunelty they had a couple in stock so I was able to pick through them,

SLACR L734A881 (pack date 10/05/07)

When I first installed the chip I was using BIOS P30 on my eVGA 680i A1 and it booted right up without much trouble. After I got it up and running and did some baseline benching I tried to start pushing it a bit. By the end of the night I got it stable (4x instances of Prime95 400mb each) at 3.15Ghz on a whopping 1.42v (which seems to be much higher than most)! Granted I didn't have much time to tweak that night but since I've flashed to P31 and I've got all day to test!

Like some others I've been getting lots of random restarts with no warning (as in no blue screens first), it just restarts at anything above 3.15Ghz. I read that some think this may be a PSU issue but I'm doubtful. In anycase I'll try to post my progress over the course of the day!

[Eldonko]

Could be heat related, what are your temps like? Cooling?

[Roger_D25]

I should have included that info. The CPU is watercooled and at 3.15Ghz on 1.42v the temps maxed out (after about 2hrs of Prime) at 48C according to Everest. This leads me to believe that temps probably aren't the issue, YET. To be honest I should have done more testing myself before posting that question since I'll be able to narrow down the issue more that way! Not only that but since my BIOS wasn't updated during that testing it could just be a BIOS issues (the newest BIOS seems to be centered around new Quads and Kentfields in particular)....

[Eldonko]

Yeah could be the bios, you should be getting alot more out of a G0 with H20 than that I would think.

[jmmtn4aj]

WOW. 1.28v 3.6GHz! Could I buy the chip from you once you're done?

[timber715]

Thanks, Im quite happy with how it clocks. The last SS was with P5KC but a transistor exploded so I am using P5K now. Only 1.27-1.28v needed for 3.6G prime.

thats some sick chip you have in your hands, what cooling are you using on it? very nice

[qujck]

My Q6600, which was sold yesterday at ebay, with a nice result:



CPU: L727Axxx
MB: P5K del.
RAM: G.E.I.L. 6400UDC
GPU: 8800GTX from Club 3D.

Now two new Q6600 are on their way to me to be tested.

[Eldonko]

thats some sick chip you have in your hands, what cooling are you using on it? very nice

Water cooled, nothing special apogee with GPU and chipset in same loop.

I had it priming at 3800mhz at 1.44v when my resistor exploded, just poof and smoke, too much powa for crap asus board.

[Lumske]

Stepping?

i ordered a Q6600 wihout a cooler, so i have no idear where to se what stepping it is. any program that showes it?

[qujck]

stepping is on the Heatspreader!!!

[yonton228]

i ordered a Q6600 wihout a cooler, so i have no idear where to se what stepping it is. any program that showes it?

The stepping is right on the CPU itself mate.I will try to find a pic.




-yonton228/timmy

[Lumske]

The stepping is right on the CPU itself mate.I will try to find a pic.




-yonton228/timmy

year i know that, but i lapped it yesterday

[GripS]

year i know that, but i lapped it yesterday

Batch code is gone. But CPU-Z will let ya know if it's a 'G0' or not.

[Lumske]

Batch code is gone. But CPU-Z will let ya know if it's a 'G0' or not.

hell, i dont mind anyway. it overclock with setfsb up to 3.9Ghz yesterday. i couldent open anythink without it crashingo n me, but that is the rams fault.

[Inteleron]

Is anyone on XS selling a 4GHz stable Q6600? willing to pay top dollar.

[sdumper]

Phase or Water

I have a nice Water Cooled G0 running at 3.82ghz stable for 3 weeks straight now folding and another I run at 4.4ghz on my blackPearl and now at 4.18 on my
Maximus...(obviously this is on phase and not water)

[flesheatinvirus]

My Q runs 4005 at 1.56 on water 24/7 and is Prime stable at 3800 so far, very happy with it so far. L726A849.

[Duffy]

Hi

Some great over clocks here in the thread :-D

I would ask though if some of you guys would be good enough to share some of your bios settings for n00bs like my self.

With my speed i got in my sig all i did was up the FSB and the volts, I run prime for a bit no problem.

I can boot into windows with 3.6 no problem just upping the FSB but prime wont run.

I have read alot here at the forum and some other guides but would be nice to get some more detailed info on what your guys settings are since we all all using the same chip and simular configurations.

Thanks :-)

[san~man]

No offense to anyone, but why do people bother to show a prime screen less than 10 hours? Is that what everyone is considering "stable" now?

[cnumartyr]

SLACR

L737A823 Boxed on 10/17/07

Will be pairing it with a DFI Blood Iron, some Transcend AxeRam, and an Ultra 120 Extreme.

I'll be setting it up tomorrow and we'll see how it goes!