ASUS Maximus Formula SE

[jonny_ftm]

Did you read any of my previous post? They all point to overclocking challanges when running 4 slots and overclocking at the same time. I and many serious overclockers since the birth of DDR have never fussed with overclocking 4 slots occupied. It put a major address load on the memory controller and is really only a bennifit for servers, not overclockers. 2 gb of RAM in 2 slots has prooven to be the most reliable for several years now. even dence RAM of 2gb x 2 is adding a challange.

You can do it but you now need to do a lot of relaxing and upping on some mobo volts.

For starters, try this. Keep strap and frequency to AUTO (1:1), up PCI-E to 111, open timings close to stock (usually 5-5-5-18 for 1066), Enable Static Read Control if using or wanting higher FSB, Disable DRAM Booster and relax to 3~5, set Ai Clock Twister to light. Up CPU GTL Ref to 63x, and chipset GTL Ref to 67x, FSBT to 1.47~1.50v, and NB to at least 1.5v~1.52v for the 450~485FSB range. Although, the 4 slot configuration is a compromise of a bit of less FSB on top of looser timings and yet a lil added mobo volts.

This should get you to Prime further. Scores will report a tad less on paper but you may never notice if you didnt see the numbers.

Let me know how it works

Wow, impressed.
Well, please don't take it personal, no need to go in flaming after my post, as I well understand you can take my comments bad.

Well, first I don't see in your setup anything of a "serious OC", just air cooling, no motherboard modding... So, basic OC we can call it rather

Also, OC a C2D is not a C2Q. And, I'm still waiting to see your stable Q6600 OC at OCCT RAM for just 4h (no, no priming, but OCCT in RAM mode, the motherboard and X38 are the limit, and Prime95 won't show it even in Blend)

Why I write this? Just because I hate hearing wrong affirmations like it is possible to get a 470-500 MHz FSB from a quadcore, getting 500MHz from a C2D as if it is the habbit... If getting 3.8GHz was so easy (for C2Q or C2D), this wouldn't be quiet longest thread after just few weeks of its release

The rule of thumb is that most people won't exceed 3.6GHz of their C2Q, few will reach 3.8GHz, and some very very lucky people will get it over. I say lucky, not only serious OC, as you need a really good CPU/MB combo. Also, a +480MHz on a quad is already a rockser
Anyway, just really impatient to see some screens from your Q6600