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The most basic overclock ever: Q6600

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The most basic overclock ever: Q6600

Asus A5E, that auto fan/cpu adjust stuff in bios is DISABLED.

I only changed 1 thing to go from 2.4ghz stock to 3.29ghz.

Changed FSB from 267 to 366.

Posting so someone can tell me if all my temps look fine. Stock fans, stock everything else.

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Heyya, =)

Just in case you might not realize it but windows can run on a flaky machine like yours & seem ok but your files might get corrupted by programs that are not behaving correctly...have you done alot of oveclocking?
 
just basic stuff for last 10 years. usually trying to get at least an extra .5 ghz out of my cpus.

i better dial this back a tad.

and my machine isnt flaky until i did this, its been rock solid for at least 2 yrs. @ 3ghz.
 
my Q6600 is stable upto around 3.6ghz, but i leave it at 3.2ghz since i have no need for it to be higher
 
tricky0502 said:
3.2 works great for me. 8 x 400 ram 1-1.
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i found the 8 x 400 in bios, but i cant find my FSB:ram ratio stuff..

so bios and cpu-z shows 3.2ghz, but windows shows 3.6ghz..

it says my effective FSB is 1600

ah i just went back to my trusty 333 x 9 = 3ghz, never fails.
 
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above 3Ghz, it takes alot of tweaking, voltage & cooling to remain stable....it's the principle of diminishing return when you start to reach the physical limits of the CPU...
 
ya this 3ghz seems like a fairest compromise for the least work.

i been putting off cpu upgrades for a year at least. its almost time. my q6600 might even be a bottleneck for my HD4870 512mb video card.
 
Before you decide that your CPU might be the bottleneck, I'd suggest that you try an SSD drive big enough to hold your OS and game, and check the results. An OC'ed Q6600, though old, is still quite competitive compared to the new processors...and, apparently DDR3 vs DDR2 doesn't mean a darn thing.

If you try this, you might be surprised to find out that your CPU was fine, but starved for data by your drive/controller, as are most high-end video card / CPU systems on conventional storage.

I am trying to harrass [H] into re-runnig their PCI-E tests with 5 SSDs in RAID 0, now that TRIM support is avaialble for them. So far, no luck...

An alternative would be to run as many HDs on RAID 0 or 5 as you can possibly run, and look at your scores. However, one decent SSD can usually best the HD RAIDs.
 
but starved for data by your drive/controller, as are most high-end video card / CPU systems on conventional storage.
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What do you mean starved for data by drive/controller? (for informational purposes)
 
I mean that even older CPUs, RAM, and Videocards are capable of processing much more data than they can receive (as evidenced by [H]ard's PCI-E tests), as they can't suck data from a hard drive any faster than the drive will give it up. Very intense gaming and video/audio processing require a greater amount of sustained streaming data than the drives can accomodate. Even onboard SATA controllers, which are relatively slow compared to other on-board resources, could handle a considerably greater amount of data than the drives can produce.
 
I see. Thank you for clearing that up for me. So in theory, PCI-e SSDs would out perform SATA SSDs.
 
clarkkent57 said:
Before you decide that your CPU might be the bottleneck, I'd suggest that you try an SSD drive big enough to hold your OS and game, and check the results. An OC'ed Q6600, though old, is still quite competitive compared to the new processors...and, apparently DDR3 vs DDR2 doesn't mean a darn thing.

If you try this, you might be surprised to find out that your CPU was fine, but starved for data by your drive/controller, as are most high-end video card / CPU systems on conventional storage.

I am trying to harrass [H] into re-runnig their PCI-E tests with 5 SSDs in RAID 0, now that TRIM support is avaialble for them. So far, no luck...

An alternative would be to run as many HDs on RAID 0 or 5 as you can possibly run, and look at your scores. However, one decent SSD can usually best the HD RAIDs.
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when did ssd's get trip support on raid? i know you can do it on a raid as long as the ssd isnt one of the drives in the raid (2 hdds in raid 0 and an ssd alone).
 
i have always had my os and games all on my SSD Intel X25 80gb drive..

this all came up because my SSD finally filled up. I had to move my 35GB steam folder over to my Velociraptor 300gb a few days ago.

just trying to decide my next pc upgrade in the next 3-6 months..

video card? cpu/MB/ram? different HD?

i like that Asus SuperComputer motherboard with a built in SAS controller.. but $399 is harsh for a MB..
 
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