*Official Retail G0 Q6600 Overclocking Thread*

[Loser777]

Sorry to go a little off topic but I get some great results from my sli boards. The msi is a very good clocker, stable, and reliable. Sli works flawlessly with it. I haven't experienced any of the issues that loser describes. I'm just now setting up a 790i but that's also an excellent clocker.

I was originally gonna post something else, but upon typing that post, my 11hrs Prime Stable and Linpack Stable 3.6GHz OC-1.372v-1.384v... Suddenly hung when I was typing this post.
I raised voltage a notch in BIOS, started testing, hang.
I'm at stock now and everything's stable...
My problem with this board is that it's extremely fickle. With my last chip I had this board benching at around 480FSB. After I got rid of the last chip because it was a bad clocker, I pop in this low VID bad boy. 3.6GHz was stable at 1.372v/1.384v so I thought if I can't get to 3.8GHz, I'll at least have 3.6GHz with this board, which is a pretty decent 24/7. That's not even possible anymore, and I'm seriously starting to doubt the quality of this board.

What's weird is that setting higher voltages causes the crashes to happen FASTER than they would at a LOWER voltage. And crashes happen strictly based on the amount of load also. I had 3.8GHz running for about 5-6 hours... @ 1.464v... I run Prime, and it crashes in about 1 second. I run one thread of Prime, and it takes about 10 minutes. I know that this behavior is pretty common with an unstable chip, but it doesn't explain how higher voltages crash FASTER, unless something is wrong with power regulation.

My other thought is that the Chipset could have potentially degraded... I was running it up to 1.55v (BIOS MAX), with my benching runs before, and I ran it at 1.5v 24/7 with my previous OC.

The highest I ran my chip AFTER setting my stable 24/7 OC was 1.58v LOAD for about 5 seconds before Prime failed.