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My Q6600 overclocking experience.
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Stock, and doing surprisingly well.
I just don't want to raise vcore yet for 3.0 .
Cooling -
STOCK HSF
120 MM Rear Outake
120 MM Front Intake
90 MM Side intake
I'm at 9 x 334 now and stable @ 3.006.19 Ghz / 1336 FSB
And still at stock voltage!
Temos are 44 *c - 50 *c
I'm at 9 x 334 now and stable @ 3.006.19 Ghz / 1336 FSB
And still at stock voltage!
Temos are 44 *c - 50 *c
Are these idle temps or load temps? What are you using to load up the processor?
Load, and I'm doing this all in BIOS.
Those are the temps after CS:S Idle is 39*c
50*C-53*C is in game.
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you can probably squeeze 3.2 at stock volts out of that thing. those G0 chips are amazing.
No, I alt-tabbed and checked in game.
I made sure.
I really don't want to go over the 1333 FSB rating on my motherboard.
I'm a chicken, I know.
No, I alt-tabbed and checked in game.
I made sure.
I really don't want to go over the 1333 FSB rating on my motherboard.
I'm a chicken, I know.
Alt-tab isn't going to work either. The game is using more of your GPU than CPU.
Run some Prime95 or Orthos. Just like in the OC sticky. It is a good idea to know your max temps under load...and if your OC will fail due to vdroop / not enough voltage.
Ran some super pi.
Will test next weekend, most likely. Seems stable in general use for now.
What is the benefit of tighter ram timings exactly? My ram is rated 4-4-4-12 but is at 5-5-5-15 for the overclock.
You should only give it vcore when it needs it. That is to say, never assume you need to change the Vcore when on a higher clock before actually testing it. Obviously if it does not POST or boot into windows you up the vcore one notch at a time until you are able to boot into windows and then use the computer as you normally would..
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True, but I don't take Prime95 results as the end all be all. I had a past system that would fail after 8 hours of Prime 95, but that same system at those settings ran fine for me for a couple years with no problems.
I'm at 9 x 334 now and stable @ 3.006.19 Ghz / 1336 FSB
And still at stock voltage!
Temos are 44 *c - 50 *c
Looks very nice. I'm thinking hard about getting a similar setup to replace my failing backup system. BTW, you can log your temps with Intel's TAT program, so it'll let you know what your temps are while using any program or game.
Keep us updated.
System in sig is >24hours prime stable. Multiple sessions. You can push a G0 stepping fairly far.
100% system stability is not always guaranteed, but with a 24 hour session of prime 95, you can be a bit more confident that in a most critical situation, it won't go on you or miscalculate something.
8 hour prime and fail means the system is not ideal for mission critical type calculations say calculating something in prime, folding @ home or similar projects which require all precision calculations to be dead on. I wouldn't even trust a system to compile programs on a system that fails prime.
Just because you can use it for browsing, little gaming, nothing loading up is not a good litmus test. With the advent of HT, dual core, and quad core cpus, system stability has increased to a point that errors that used to lock a system can go by undetected since not all cores or threads are failed. In a quad, if just one goes, you still have the other 3 possibly running the OS fine, but then try to load up that failed core and you could BSOD.
100% system stability is not always guaranteed, but with a 24 hour session of prime 95, you can be a bit more confident that in a most critical situation, it won't go on you or miscalculate something.
8 hour prime and fail means the system is not ideal for mission critical type calculations say calculating something in prime, folding @ home or similar projects which require all precision calculations to be dead on. I wouldn't even trust a system to compile programs on a system that fails prime.
Just because you can use it for browsing, little gaming, nothing loading up is not a good litmus test. With the advent of HT, dual core, and quad core cpus, system stability has increased to a point that errors that used to lock a system can go by undetected since not all cores or threads are failed. In a quad, if just one goes, you still have the other 3 possibly running the OS fine, but then try to load up that failed core and you could BSOD.
I'm at 9 x 334 now and stable @ 3.006.19 Ghz / 1336 FSB
And still at stock voltage!
Temos are 44 *c - 50 *c
I guarantee you that your temps will rase at least another 10c if you use p95 with 4 threads.
I know because my temps behave the same way while playing a game. Once you start to stress all 4 cores your temps will hit a max in about 5min.
I'll try it.
*Edit* I'm running it right now for 5 minutes of torture test.. and it's about 56*C on avg with minimal hops to 59-61 on one of the cores.
The coolest is reporting 51-56.