Quote Originally Posted by Getttosmurf View Post
Hi , whats the best bios for overclocking q6600 on p35 Dq6 ?
Having some problems with my board , anything past 1.5ish vcore and it seems to get unstable , perhaps some component on mb getting warm ? Im running 4x1GB pc8500 ballistix around stock speeds atm seems to work fine. increased mch and
vfsb voltages slightly just to take that out of the equation. I can boot 4 ghz at 1.6v bios setting but prime95 crashes instantly but heres the strange part the same thing happens at 3.8Ghz 1.6v but 3.8 1.5v primes for 20 minutes before one of the cores fail. Cpu gets kinda hot at 1.6v quadprime around 70c measured with intel tat , speedfan and everest. Coretemp crashes the rig instantly for some reason.
I actually think your CPU is overheating and thus making Prime shut down.
You said it yourself with the "3.8Ghz 1.6v but 3.8 1.5v primes for 20 minutes before one of the cores fail." -statement.
That is probably the reason for one core shutting down.
I guess you need more cooling!
I see you have 4xBallistix. Which ones do you have? An image or a link perhaps? Are they running fine and how high have you reached with 4 of them ?