*Official Retail G0 Q6600 Overclocking Thread*

[Fixt00l]

Guys, I NEED your help to squeeze the very last piece of MHz of my Q6600.It is a very good sample, known to do 4150 MHz on water and 4350 on gas cooling, I have only the ultimate HSF champion from Thermalright-the ULTRA 120-E, with 2 x SSFLEX 120mm.Asus P5E X38 with Rampage formula latest BIOS, 2 x 1 GB Transcend aXe RAM @ Micron D9GMH chips.1kw CWT HX1000W PSU from Corsair, open case, etc.There`s going to be an Overclocking and modding gurus OC championship in Bulgaria, and I hope to be among the middle in the final score, as I stand no chance in the benchmarks vs any Core i7 on air cooling...I managed to make... 3, 95 GHz 1,68 V Prime BLEND stable in one cold night (the rules of the championship require passing 20min Prime BLEND test before starting), and never managed to make even 3,88 Ghz on the other day...My PC was illegally seized by RIAA-like local ****, I work no more in the IT industry, prior to a far better job, I admit losing many of my previous OC skills...Even so, this is the ultimate best hardware/OC forum worldwide, I hope not to laugh @ me or let me down...So, my STRANGE settings on my even stranger MB are:

DISABLED: Dram stating read control, C1E, CPU and PCI-E spread spectrum, CPU TM function, Vanderpool technology, Execute disable bit, Max CPUID value limit (WTF is this...)

Enabled: Loadline calibration

On AUTO, since the MB is so strange, I wasn`t able to make stable not one configuration...

AUTO (Whoever laughs loses his tongue :-P) DRAM SKEW A, B/ AI CLOCK TWISTER/AI TRANSACTION BOOSTER/CPU AND NB CLOCK SKEW/ Voltages on AUTO-FSB termination, SB, SB 1,5V, CPU GTL voltage reference, NB GTL voltage ref, DRAM CHANNEL A-B voltage reference

MANUAL: CPU RATION-9x, FSB strap to NB=400, FSB @ 439, PCI-E @ 101, DDR2 @ 1170 MHz 5-5-5-18 (with a low cpu multi-no problem at 1200MHz @ 5-5-5-15), DRAM command rate- 2N, all fans @ maximum speed from bios.

[Spacehead]

Guys, I NEED your help to squeeze the very last piece of MHz of my Q6600.It is a very good sample, known to do 4150 MHz on water and 4350 on gas cooling, I have only the ultimate HSF champion from Thermalright-the ULTRA 120-E, with 2 x SSFLEX 120mm.Asus P5E X38 with Rampage formula latest BIOS, 2 x 1 GB Transcend aXe RAM @ Micron D9GMH chips.1kw CWT HX1000W PSU from Corsair, open case, etc.There`s going to be an Overclocking and modding gurus OC championship in Bulgaria, and I hope to be among the middle in the final score, as I stand no chance in the benchmarks vs any Core i7 on air cooling...I managed to make... 3, 95 GHz 1,68 V Prime BLEND stable in one cold night (the rules of the championship require passing 20min Prime BLEND test before starting), and never managed to make even 3,88 Ghz on the other day...My PC was illegally seized by RIAA-like local ****, I work no more in the IT industry, prior to a far better job, I admit losing many of my previous OC skills...Even so, this is the ultimate best hardware/OC forum worldwide, I hope not to laugh @ me or let me down...So, my STRANGE settings on my even stranger MB are:

DISABLED: Dram stating read control, C1E, CPU and PCI-E spread spectrum, CPU TM function, Vanderpool technology, Execute disable bit, Max CPUID value limit (WTF is this...)

Enabled: Loadline calibration

On AUTO, since the MB is so strange, I wasn`t able to make stable not one configuration...

AUTO (Whoever laughs loses his tongue :-P) DRAM SKEW A, B/ AI CLOCK TWISTER/AI TRANSACTION BOOSTER/CPU AND NB CLOCK SKEW/ Voltages on AUTO-FSB termination, SB, SB 1,5V, CPU GTL voltage reference, NB GTL voltage ref, DRAM CHANNEL A-B voltage reference

MANUAL: CPU RATION-9x, FSB strap to NB=400, FSB @ 439, PCI-E @ 101, DDR2 @ 1170 MHz 5-5-5-18 (with a low cpu multi-no problem at 1200MHz @ 5-5-5-15), DRAM command rate- 2N, all fans @ maximum speed from bios.

Could you post a picture like that: http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/6348/3656linx.jpg
Which shows setting like they are.
I think voltage limits my overclock, but at higher voltage it reboots, weird.