Quote Originally Posted by Fillthee View Post
Alright chaps,

Having some issues pushing my Q6600 (G0) past 3.2ghz! its stable as can be at 3.2 (1.416v) but the minute I try to go above that it might boot to windows but it wont finish a 3Dmark06 bench or any of the benchmarks included with sisofts sandra.

CPU cooling is provided by an Arctic Freezer 7 and temps at 3.2ghz are around 36c and under load they hit about 48c.

Ram is G.Skill F2-8500CL5 (2x4gig kits)

CPU speed - 3221Mhz
Bus Speed - 358Mhz
Rated FSB - 1431Mhz

DRAM Freq - 536mhz
FSBRAM - 2:3

Everything in bios apart from ram/cpu voltage is set to auto.

Any advice or help would be more than welcome as im not a big overclocker and dont really know what all the options in bios will or wont do for my overclock.

PC spec:

Rampage Formula
Q6600
8gigs G.Skill F2-8500CL5
BFG 9800GX2
Creative X-fi plat.
PCP&C Silvener 750w
Lian Li A71 5x120mm fans
Ive been playing around with my rampage formula for about am month or so now, and one thing that ive found is setting the FSB termination voltage up too high leads to instability issues after about 4-5 days (yes, days, you read that correctly).

this is with a newer X3110 (45nm penryn) as well as a Q6600 G0. I ran several benchmarks in those first few days, some for more than 24 hours, all passed with flying colors/excellent temps but then things got hairy in the middle of arena matches in warcraft, or even when i left WCG on constantly (which doesnt load as much as say Prime95 does)

after i stepped down the FSB termination voltage things really turned around... maybe just odd circumstances, but thats my experience so far.

I kinda agree with anandtech's claim of running the VTT voltage(aka FSB termination voltage in our case) no higher than 1.4v, but not with the across the board thing.

in your case you might manually set that manually to about .5-.7v lower than what you want, simply because the rampage formula overvolts that like mad.