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problem OCing my q6600

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James24

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I have an Asus 95n32-e SLU plus board, intel q6600, Enermax 565w ps, OCZ pc2 6400 memory, and an Nvidia 8800 GTS.

I had it oc'd to 3.15 for over a week with no issue and the other day I came home and it was on a blue screen with "Halt Error" only on the screen. When I restarted the system it posted through bios but gave me a trap exception just prior to the splash screen. I have done everything I can think of and I still get this when I try to oc it. It works fine at default settings but I didn't buy it to run stock.

Has anyone experience this? Is it the chip or the MB?
 
what's your cooling solution?
what have you tested it with?
what temps do you run at idle and at load?

Q's can be interesting birds to overclock, but we might as well start at the basics.
 
It's probably the motherboard; Nvidia chipsets and the Quads don't get along so well.

I speak from experience here -- I've been through an EVGA 680i SE SLI, an XFX 680i LT, an Abit IN9-32X MAX (680i SLI non-reference), a MSI P7N-Diamond (780i non-reference), and finally settled at least for the moment on an XFX 780i SLI reference board. The current board gives the best results (~3.8Ghz), and the 680i LT the second best (~3.4Ghz). The P7N-Diamond also hit 3.4-3.5Ghz, but it was never stable. I blame a horrible, immature BIOS for the P7N disappointment.

Are you running the latest BIOS for that board?
 
My temps at Idle were 42 and at load they were 49. Here is he cooling solution I a using.
http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec.hmx?scriteria=BA23991
I have switched the ram to rule that out and do have the current bios for the board. It wont allow me to OC at any speed so I am guessing it's the board. I just switched from AMD were I never had an issue with OCing to this.
 
If you can, return the motherboard and get a P35 based board. If you have only one GPU there is absolutely no reason to run an Nvidia chipset board. Intel boards are more stable and generally OC as well or better.
 
DFI P35-TR2S, Gigabyte EP35-DS3R, Abit IP35-Pro, or MSI P35-Neo2-FR. Can't really go wrong with any of them. Price range is $120-160. People like the ASUS boards as well, but they're more expensive and ASUS customer service is horrible, so I generally avoid them.
 
Thanks for all the help silent-circuit. I have always used abit boards and this is my first venture away from them and I am having nothing but trouble. In fact this is my first trip on the intel bus in over 8 years.
 
My vote is for the Abit iP35 Pro (or any p35) ... I also came from a nforce board (p6n sli-fi, 650i sli chipset), and the abit requires less voltage, has better components and generally has been a lot more stable. My Q6700 is finally stable at 3.5 ghz ..but if the weather wasn't so hot these days I'd make a serious effort at going higher. The abit was definitely more expensive though...I paid close to $180 or so for it ... but it's worth it.
 
Yes I have always been a big Abit fan and of course thats the board I grabbed. all I can say is WOW! what a difference between the Nvidia chipset and the Intel chip. The system feels faster and OC much easier. It didnt start off good but I am glad I decided on the Q6600.

It wasnt easy and when I was in Mwave grabbing my Q6600 there was a Phenom on the counter and I felt like I got caught cheeting:)
 
well for a long time I was an AMD guy (athlon 900, 1400, xp2000, xp2800, X2 4600+). I totally built a new system in the fall of 06 - the 4600, DDR2 RAM, ATI Radeon X1800XT, etc., and that's around the time the Core 2 Duos and the Nvidia 8800 series video cards came out. I got so sick of the crap performance in new games that by April I had replaced the 4600 w/ an e6420 and the X1800XT w/ an X1950XTX which was then replaced with an 8800GTS. It was an expensive bit of living in denial but I mean in the end one has to go w/ what works. Needless to say, I'm over the guilt lol.
 
Now that I have a good board I have easily OC this chip to 3.24 and can probably get more.
 
I screwed around with an MSI P7N board for almost a month and never had it fully stable. It would crash when watching movies. So finally I traded it for a DFI board...all I can say is mother of god this board is amazing. I got my q6600 at 3.5Ghz on only 1.31 volts, barely over stock. Rock stable and 35 degree idle temps. Unreal.
 
Ok I am up to 3.33 and stable right now. Anything above that is unstable. Need to read up on how to OC intel chips. I think I need to loosen my timing a touch.
 
prasvt said:
My vote is for the Abit iP35 Pro (or any p35) ... I also came from a nforce board (p6n sli-fi, 650i sli chipset), and the abit requires less voltage, has better components and generally has been a lot more stable. My Q6700 is finally stable at 3.5 ghz ..but if the weather wasn't so hot these days I'd make a serious effort at going higher. The abit was definitely more expensive though...I paid close to $180 or so for it ... but it's worth it.
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sounds good. i may have to get a p35 board then :).
 
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