Quote Originally Posted by Systemcepe View Post
I'm gonna OC my q6600 G0 in about some weeks. First I need to read alot about OC'ing since I've never done it before.

But I've read that if you want to clock your Q6600 to 3,0Ghz just change the FBS to 333, you dont need to change the volt. Is that really true?
I don't know much about overclocking either, but I've been trying these days.

What you say about getting the CPU to 3.0 GHz with stock voltage seems valid for me. Some days ago I was trying to get it to 3.2 GHz (I don't have time to test it these days), and I couldn't do it. It happens that I was perhaps overvolting my CPU unnecessarily. I was setting it to 1.4200v on my BIOS. As for today, I'm running my Q6600 G0 VID 1.2375v at 3000 MHz with stock voltage. So, that statement seems to be true for me, but I guess it also depends on your motherboard and CPU batch.

Oh, by the way, it seems the stock voltage on my board if I set it to "Normal" it's the same as the VID. My board's got a horrible vDroop, so voltages are 1.184v at idle, and 1.152v at full load after eight hours of Prime95, according to CPU-Z. My temperatures are 32 ºC (average for all cores) at idle, and 48 ºC at full load. There is a picture of my setup on my signature.

I'll be testing more MHz in some days, maybe perhaps this weekend.

Have fun, and good luck!