Why did you pay 225?
I'm in Canada. That is the lowest u can get a q6600 for.
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Why did you pay 225?
To be honest I think memtest is useless unless your ram is is just clearly very unstable. I recently got a couple of bad sticks and I found that IBT is very good at finding ram errors and Ive allways found prime to be much better than IBT at testing your cpu. So to me it sounds like your ram is bad. I know the feeling diagnosing mildly unstabe ram is such a pain.Yeh this motherboard use to hit 445 FSB on a E6300.
Now it wont even run a q6600 stable at 1.40 at 333 FSB.
I've tried most things.
The tests aren't helping either. Prime 95 is giving errors @ 333 but not stock.
and IBT wont even pass on stock settings.
Memtest86 running for 8 hours is giving no errors on 333 or 266 FSB.
To be honest I think memtest is useless unless your ram is is just clearly very unstable. I recently got a couple of bad sticks and I found that IBT is very good at finding ram errors and Ive allways found prime to be much better than IBT at testing your cpu. So to me it sounds like your ram is bad. I know the feeling diagnosing mildly unstabe ram is such a pain.
If it is completely stable at stock speeds, I doubt the memory is bad if he is setting his ratios correctly.
those temps sure are high for no overclock. I have about 5 degrees higher on all my cores, but am running 3.6. Get a better cooler before you OC. You should probably be in the teens with stock speed/voltage.
He said that he is failing IBT at stock speeds. I just went through the same thing. Passing 16+ hours of prime which I normally find to be better than IBT at testing stability on my processor and failing IBT. It could just need more dram voltage, the timings could be too tight, vNB could be too low (unlikly if it's failing at stock speeds), or the ram could be bad. Ive found Memtest 86+ to be useless, but 3.8 isn't bad. He could try that. IBT gave me the easiest to reproduce errors and during gaming.
Earlier I tried running all 4 sticks together @ stock which was unstable in in dual channel.
oh boy. Alright gonna start with each stick in a bit.
Why the other memory though?
UPDATE:
Ok so I've starting testing my RAM at stock speeds.
So far all 4 sticks are stable at stock 266*9 with 2.1 volts.
Next I'll test in Dual channel config. at stock
If alls good I will overclock till 333*9 with dual channel and see if thats stable.
Then ofcourse I'll put the other 2 sticks and see if thats stable (which I know it won't be)
But for now all 4 sticks tested individually are stable at stock.
Earlier I tried running all 4 sticks together @ stock which was unstable in in dual channel.
Technically none of them are correct: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/intel-dts-specs,news-29460.html
Intel DTS spec says that the Q6600 G0 stepping has a TJ Max of 90°C. You need to change the TJ Max setting in both RealTemp and CoreTemp to give you the correct temp readings.
most boards overvolt vtt and pll like crazy while set to auto while overclocking and thats the h*ll of alot more dangerous than a 1.4 vcore.
thats cause thats what core temp puts for default for all cpus if u vo to settings u can set it yourselfHi, I think you are mistaken...Coretemp states the TJ Max on my Q6600 G0 is 100C
Hi, I think you are mistaken...Coretemp states the TJ Max on my Q6600 G0 is 100C
Drop the cpu multi. take it out of the problem right now and get to testing the ram one stick at a time. I can find weak, bad or ram I can't push to what I want with a short time with memtest. And then fine tune. Can also jack with mem voltage and NB voltage and settings.
We know the p965 is weak when it comes to a quad. We know that most boards don't give up there best OC with all mem slots filled. We also know a Q6600 is now getting to be a weak quad. Yes its getting to be old school. So if you find out the ram is good and FSB speed start pointing to the NB. Don't spend alot of money on a top end board for the old Quad.
Good honest testing will give you the answers. Be it the Q6600, ram or the NB and resulting 965 chipset.
Welcome to OC'ing! You are in the belly of the beast. Now think and test your way out. Its not the GHZ! It's understanding your hardware and what and how you get there. So you have a dude. You learned something. And when you get the magic hardware. You will have took steps to get the ass kicking OC.
Have fun.
I can't see any of the SS cause I'm at work. Are you getting your vcore ratings from cpu-z or the bios?
Reason I ask is because some boards are way off. Mine shows 1.42 in bios but cpu-z shows 1.34 @ idle.
I just found this image today,