*Official Retail G0 Q6600 Overclocking Thread*

[dnottis]

Why does everyone here have PCI-E set to 101MHz? Does it change anything?

And why do all of you going beyond 3.6GHz have multi set to 8x?

my 1.3125v VID chip could do an easy vaild of 4GHz at 1.45v or so, valids don't prove much in terms of stability.

As long as I can remember having PCI-e on auto is trusting the board to keep it locked to 100mhz. Forcing to 101, gives me piece of mind that the PCI-e isnt way overclocked or holding back an OC.

As for 8x. I hate changing the mult, but seeing so many people have more luck with a lower mult I figured I'd try it. Worked for me. I have issues with some of the memory dividers not working right, in some cases I cannot even post. I dropped to 8x and kept the memory at 1:1 seems to really help with stability. I think the higher FSB relaxes some of the chipset timings.

Yea pulling CPU-Z is the easy part... now make it prime stable