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Corporal79

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I just wanted to post up and see if I'm getting the most out of my current machine's setting. I've only overclocked once and that was on a GeForce ti500 that I fried so I'm a tad gun shy about it. I took a screenshot of CPUID showing some various settings. Can anyone suggest some tweaks to get the most performance of my current setup? I feel like I'm missing something as far as correct settings for my memory perhaps

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Mushkin... Mmmm... damned fine choice on the RAM there, bub, damned fine indeed.

If you're running at stock with that Q6600 and it looks like you are, as it's a G0 stepping (the king of the hill) it can easily do 3 GHz without even breaking a sweat and give you a 25% boost in performance right there. Hell, I've had Q6600 G0 chips at 3.2 GHz using the stock Intel HSF that came with the processors using the stock thermal compound as well running at that speed for 8+ months now, not one issue. The damned things truly are one of the very best processors ever made and they overclock quite easily.

While it won't make that much difference at this point, you might try running that RAM at 4-4-4-12. Again, not much of a difference but hey, you asked for tweaks to get the most performance, and going from 5 to 4 on the CAS timing alone can give you 10-20% better RAM read/write performance so that's something. Small, but it's there.

See about getting a better hard drive, that'll help dramatically at this point. Those 74GB Raptors get left in the dust by the Western Digital 640GB AAKS drives these days, really. The WD still loses in pure random access time, but it blows the Raptor away with sheer sustained read/write speeds. If you can afford it, grab one, they're amazing drives.

Not sure what OS you're running but I'm going to guess it's probably Vista based on the theme on the CPU-Z dialog boxes in the pics; if so it should be a 64 bit version of whatever edition you've got (the Product Key will let you install either the 32 bit or 64 bit version of whatever edition you own). That way you'll get access to the 4GB you've got and a more stable OS overall - I won't get into a big debate over why 64 bit is preferred over 32 bit, there's hundreds of such threads here and all over the Internet these days.

There are some basic things you can do to help improve performance, but the easiest one I can see with the configuration you've got right now is simply overclocking that Q6600 to 3 GHz and running with it.

Good luck...
 
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