Hi im getting my new pc Thursday with Gigabyte DS3L Q6600 arctic freezer 7 pro and 2gb of gskill ram. Is there a step by step guide to ocing a Q6600 with this mobo? Also i heard people talking about the 4pin mobo the ds3l is when ocing a quad core can pop the capacitors is this true?
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Gigabyte DS3L Q6600 oc guide
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Yeah go to the OC section of the forums theres a guide called OCing dual cores and Quads or something. Just follow that, don't over think things Intel chipset boards are easy.
Also I dunno what it is in the BIOS F11 or Fsomething that brings up extra options for Gigabyte boards
Also I dunno what it is in the BIOS F11 or Fsomething that brings up extra options for Gigabyte boards
I don't even know if they make you open an extra menu with the new boards any more. With my DS3R there's Motherboard Intelligent Tweaker as a regular option in the bios and that's where all OCing is done. Maybe they stopped doing that?
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No, you still have to press "Ctrl-F1" from the main bios screen, then go into MIT and you will see some additional features. At least on my DS3R I do. ie: Undervoltage control, advanced memory timings and something else I can't remember.
I shouldn't say "you HAVE to" do this in order to overclock. It's just some added features for fine tuning. If you've never used those features before and your overclock is stable you most likely won't ever need those features.
BTW, I'm on a Rev 2.1 board w/ F11 bios.
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same bios - you starting settings and complete bios settings explainations are in the first few pages of this post.
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1030795318
The cpu voltage regulator is given a good workout with a quad in that board (its only a $90 board, great buy for money tho) so some air hitting the components around the cpu area is a good idea. The freezer pro has the lowest fins bent downwards to try to direct some air on the parts directly behind the cpu between it and the I/O backplate. I bend them a bit more, your call, you will see when you get your parts. However nothing hits the components above the cpu between the cpu and the edge of the board (when mounted in the typical atx tower style case) so somehow getting some air there is a plus.
try 8 x 375FSB with a memory mulitplier of 2.0 for 3.0GHz and your memory slightly underclocked. Vcore at 1.375 other voltages at +.1 and memory voltage set at high end of manufacturers recommendations (check the manuf web site for your exact memory and its exact specs, do not go by advertisments or sellers specs).
If all ok temp wise and stress testing, then raise the FSB slightly in steps and see how high you can go in small increments as your memory speed approaches its rated spec of 800MHz ( I am assuming you got PC6400 800MHz memory). and maybe some over.
If you can acheive 8 x 400 with memory mulitplier of 2.0 resulting in 3.2GHz and memory right on spec, thats a great place to call it quits unless you are a serious enthusiast. Additional increases in performance are minimal and require a lot more effort, in general. Your call.
Once you reach that area of OC you need to investigate OCing methods more as there would be several approaches to increased performance and which would be better is a matter of testing, for example
Increase Vcore and see if you can get more FSB.
or
Back off FSB some and raise the memory mulitpler to the next highest setting and start over with testing (this method assumes you will/can get a good OC out of the memory)
or
Loosen memory timings and see if you can get next higher memory mulitplier.
or
Combinations of the above and some that do not come to mind atm.
Cannot remember that exact bios but you want to have Memory Performace set at one step above the factory default, Fast I think it is. Turbo will probally be too much for a high overclock but this setting has a lot to do with memory sub-system performance and when you get the easy OCing done it is well worth investing the time to benchmark and test the results of changing this setting in conjunction with other OCing settings.
In general you want the fastest FSB/CPU speed and let the memory fall where it may close to its rated speed spec but after that it pays (if you are serious about getting all you can out of it) to go back and really start "tweaking" if you have the time and patience.
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1030795318
The cpu voltage regulator is given a good workout with a quad in that board (its only a $90 board, great buy for money tho) so some air hitting the components around the cpu area is a good idea. The freezer pro has the lowest fins bent downwards to try to direct some air on the parts directly behind the cpu between it and the I/O backplate. I bend them a bit more, your call, you will see when you get your parts. However nothing hits the components above the cpu between the cpu and the edge of the board (when mounted in the typical atx tower style case) so somehow getting some air there is a plus.
try 8 x 375FSB with a memory mulitplier of 2.0 for 3.0GHz and your memory slightly underclocked. Vcore at 1.375 other voltages at +.1 and memory voltage set at high end of manufacturers recommendations (check the manuf web site for your exact memory and its exact specs, do not go by advertisments or sellers specs).
If all ok temp wise and stress testing, then raise the FSB slightly in steps and see how high you can go in small increments as your memory speed approaches its rated spec of 800MHz ( I am assuming you got PC6400 800MHz memory). and maybe some over.
If you can acheive 8 x 400 with memory mulitplier of 2.0 resulting in 3.2GHz and memory right on spec, thats a great place to call it quits unless you are a serious enthusiast. Additional increases in performance are minimal and require a lot more effort, in general. Your call.
Once you reach that area of OC you need to investigate OCing methods more as there would be several approaches to increased performance and which would be better is a matter of testing, for example
Increase Vcore and see if you can get more FSB.
or
Back off FSB some and raise the memory mulitpler to the next highest setting and start over with testing (this method assumes you will/can get a good OC out of the memory)
or
Loosen memory timings and see if you can get next higher memory mulitplier.
or
Combinations of the above and some that do not come to mind atm.
Cannot remember that exact bios but you want to have Memory Performace set at one step above the factory default, Fast I think it is. Turbo will probally be too much for a high overclock but this setting has a lot to do with memory sub-system performance and when you get the easy OCing done it is well worth investing the time to benchmark and test the results of changing this setting in conjunction with other OCing settings.
In general you want the fastest FSB/CPU speed and let the memory fall where it may close to its rated speed spec but after that it pays (if you are serious about getting all you can out of it) to go back and really start "tweaking" if you have the time and patience.