*Official Retail G0 Q6600 Overclocking Thread*

[Spacehead]

Try IntelBurnTest (link in my sig). It should tell you if your chip is truly stable or not in a very short amount of time.

In that situation it wouldn't be very helpful finding solution to that instability problem. IntelBurnTest or LinX causes instant restart if VTT/GTL is not set right. I have not yet figured a way to solve it.

Now running one core at a time with my X3210, Prime95 has been stable running Small FFTs on core0, core1 and core2, next I run core3 to find out which core is crapping out.

CPU is now 3.8 GHz with vcore of 1.41V (load)

[drizzt5]

Theintel burntest is kind of stupid imo, If you can run prime 95 for 12 hours without issue but can't run the IBT for a min... do you really need it THAT stable? But some people need/like there stability. I like a bit of speed over full stability :P

Should I test my q6600 one core at a time? I never heard of anyone disabling cores just for finding stability.


Last night I kind of gave up and went down to 3.87ghz. It has to do with my FSB.... I am sure. Snipe dogg told me inbetween cs:s scrims last night that the x38's hits an fsb wall around were I am at. I would consider grabbing a p45 mobo somewhere but meh.... Not worth the hassle for a few mhz when I am looking forward to i7 or am3 eventually.