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Good overclock for Q6600?

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QwertyJuan

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I have one running now at 349FSB, with the stock cooler, and only .01 extra voltage... is this good? Just wanting to know if it warrents me trying a better cooler, or if this is only an average overclock...

thanks
 
You can change the multiplier?? :eek:

Never tried it, didn't think you could.

The last time I did any overclocking at all, everything was multiplier locked.... I need to try it.

Also veedubfreak - What kind of cooling setup?? Just the stock cooler??
 
QwertyJuan said:
You can change the multiplier?? :eek:

Never tried it, didn't think you could.

The last time I did any overclocking at all, everything was multiplier locked.... I need to try it.

Also veedubfreak - What kind of cooling setup?? Just the stock cooler??
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You can't change it UP though.
 
I ran it for around a year on a thermalright ultra extreme 120. I recently switched over to watercooling just because i needed a new project. I have had it as high as 4ghz stable with 1.6v and never broke 69C, but i dont like running that kind of voltage for anything more than a few benchmarks.
 
QwertyJuan said:
Ohhhhh I see.... that's kinda dumb.... it was nice back in the early days when you could just take your jumpers and move them to wherever you wanted....
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Kinda, but sometimes you can find a more stable OC with the same voltage and a lower multi, such as my E2180, its fine on the stock 10x multi up to 3GHz but after that it takes huge voltage jumps to get anywhere, but if I drop the multi down to 8 it responds better with less volts.

However if you get one of Intel's "Extreme" chips, they have "unlocked" multipliers, and can be changed to higher than stock, they all have a letter “X” in their model number.
 
I believe for the Q6600, max multiplier is 9 but you can make it lower and increase the bus speed...sometimes it makes it more stable but then you're also overclocking your ram (assuming ratio of 1:1) which needs to be taken into consideration.
 
Am at 3.06Ghz on stock volts, Prime and OCCT stable. Ultima 90 HS with a Panaflo 92mm fan.
 
I think as a general rule 3.6Ghz on air is a good overclock for a q6600. In my experience trying to get anything over that becomes tricky and more and more volts are required to get less and less gains. Or as my economist flatmate says - it is the law of diminishing returns.
 
morkboy_wonder said:
I think as a general rule 3.6Ghz on air is a good overclock for a q6600. In my experience trying to get anything over that becomes tricky and more and more volts are required to get less and less gains. Or as my economist flatmate says - it is the law of diminishing returns.
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3.6 Ghz is generally good, but each chip will get a different overclock. Some will be 'golden' chips that can overclock easily to 3.6 and beyond, others will be lucky to get 3.2 Ghz.
 
Mine tops at 3.2GHz (8x400) on a Scythe Ninja (AS5) w/120mm fan attached. Still, that's quite fast considering my one friend can't get past 2.75GHz.
 
I can't do over 3.0ghz on mine, doesn't matter how I set it it crashes. It seems to be a busy speed issue since even if I drop the multiplier I can't push the bus past 340ish.
 
Every chip is different. I couldn't get a stable overclock on my E6750 past 3.4GHz. Another factor is memory, which may be stopping your overclock.
 
In my opinion for the Q6600...

2.8 - You have a lemon
3.0 - Good, but nothing special
3.2 - Pretty Good
3.4 - Good with emphasis on the good
3.6 - Great
 
I happen to like lemons.

To QwertyJuan, your overclock is pretty average for a q6600 which isn't really a bad thing to say as a 600mhz bump from stock is good in my eyes.

I usually run mine at 9x334 with stock voltages for 3.06ghz.
But I am rock solid at 3.6ghz as I type which is great to be able to say "Yeah I am running 1200mhz more than stock :D"
 
blade52x said:
In my opinion for the Q6600...

2.8 - You have a lemon
3.0 - Good, but nothing special
3.2 - Pretty Good
3.4 - Good with emphasis on the good
3.6 - Great
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Yeah I'd say 3.2Ghz is either average or guys are not cranking the volts up enough for whatever reason. Anything around 3.5Ghz though is very decent.
 
Check the sig. I've got a 3.2 OC @ 1.37v just for stability. Been running on that for about 4 days now without any problems. Going to try for 3.4 later this weekend and 3.6 next week.
 
GonzoP said:
Excellente!? Anyone pumping more than 1.4v on air is going to get my cap tipped to them. Wowza! :eek:1.4375v:eek:
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Yeah.. but look at it after vdroop.. 1.368

Anyhow.. never gets over 62C under full Orthos load :D
 
Would be interested to hear folks vcore on an nvidia chipset. Specifically I would be interested to hear if anyone has a q6600@3.6ghz at less than 1.4V at full load.
 
I run mine at 3.6ghz (9x400) at 1.375V with my 8GB ram at 1:1

I'm on a Asus P5Q-Pro though (P45 chipset).... not an nvidia board, sorry.....
 
I ran my q6600 at 1.4v (bios) on both my 680i and 750i and currently on my rampage forumla.

at 3.6ghz
 
On my Gigabyte P35-DS3R the best I could do with this chip was 3.4, and that was with everything including voltage set to auto (1.376v according to CPUZ)

With my Asus P5Q-Pro I can hit 3.6 but only with 1.5v and LLC enabled, which is definitely the highest I would go in terms of voltage on Air cooling. I didn't actually intend to use LLC but left it on auto, which is apparently enabled, and didn't notice until I had already been stable at 3.6 for a week+ so it didn't seem to make sense to disable it. Given that, I often wonder if I could have hit 3.6 on my gigabyte board also by taking the voltage up to 1.55 or so (to compensate for not having LLC), but that is definitely way up there. I guess I'll never know.

At 3.8 I can get into windows fine but it fails Prime95, and sometimes reboots during Prime95. I haven't messed with GTL Ref or northbridge voltages or anything yet though.
 
GotNoRice said:
On my Gigabyte P35-DS3R the best I could do with this chip was 3.4, and that was with everything including voltage set to auto (1.376v according to CPUZ)

With my Asus P5Q-Pro I can hit 3.6 but only with 1.5v and LLC enabled, which is definitely the highest I would go in terms of voltage on Air cooling. I didn't actually intend to use LLC but left it on auto, which is apparently enabled, and didn't notice until I had already been stable at 3.6 for a week+ so it didn't seem to make sense to disable it. Given that, I often wonder if I could have hit 3.6 on my gigabyte board also by taking the voltage up to 1.55 or so (to compensate for not having LLC), but that is definitely way up there. I guess I'll never know.

At 3.8 I can get into windows fine but it fails Prime95, and sometimes reboots during Prime95. I haven't messed with GTL Ref or northbridge voltages or anything yet though.
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If you got all four dimms filled then you night need a bit more NB voltage
 
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