Q6600 help!

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Kewl Munky

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I finally got my TRUE and now I'm trying to push my CPU to at least 3.4Ghz. Well I can get it stable at 3Ghz with a voltage of 1.325 but if I increase the FSB any more windows won't start at all.

Is there anything else I should change than the FSB and CPU voltage?
 
Sounds like your chocking it...try boosting the voltage to 1.36v. It wont kill your processor and it should allow FSB increase.

I set mine to 400x8 = 3.2ghz @ 1.36v.

Also make sure your ram is set to stock speeds...it will raise obviously as you overclock which could also cause problems if it goes to far without voltage increase.
 
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unlinked? I don't have such a option on my board. I am guessing its for your ram?


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Now I see...mine is linked with my FSB but I have options to change it. Example 400x8 I set it to 2.00b = 800mhz. If I underclock to 3.0ghz I would have to set it to 2:40b to achieve 800mhz.

If that makes any sense :)
 
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I hate to double post.

I tried unlinked so my ram wouldn't OC windows wouldn't boot, so then I tried the ratio settings and windows wouldn't boot on anything but auto. I'm not sure what's wrong but now when I try to OC to 3Ghz, which used to be stable, my computer will crash in a matter of seconds after windows is loaded.

Did I ruin my CPU?

Also, should I try like you and lower my multiplier to 8?
 
Nah I doubt you killed your chip.

I lowered my multi because I couldn't get to 400x9 = 3.6ghz so 3.2ghz was my "goal" for this processor.

It never hurts to try drop the multi see what happens. I just got my internet back so haven't been able to do any reading.


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I am curious did you leave voltages on auto? I only had your problem when I was starving my chip of power from 3.0 to 3.2ghz.
 
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I tried to do 400x8 but it wouldn't work. I also tried to run it at 2.9Ghz with an x8 multiplier but it wouldn't work. Now I'm running at 2.9Ghz with an X9 multiplier.

I can OC up to 2.9Ghz with little to no change in the voltage, but when I went passed that I upped the voltage. Coretemp says my stock voltage is 1.3250V so how much should I up the voltage for 3.2Ghz?
 
Well each chip is different. Remember long as your temps are under 60c your perfectly fine. (60c being 100% load mind you)

My VID is also 1.325v I have mine set to 1.36v for 3.2ghz stable. Long as you stay under 1.5v your safe from possible damage.

Also did you disable the power saver features on your board...where it underclocks the chip when your not using it.
 
I don't believe my board underclocks my chip when it's not in use. I just got it stable enough at 3.2Ghz to start prime95 testing. The voltage in my Bios was set to 1.4V but I'm not sure how low it went with Vdroop. I'm really curious as to what is going on. My first two cores are an average of 5C hotter than my second two cores. So cores 0 and 1 are 5C hotter than cores 2 and 3. And for some reason core 1 isn't reaching 100% load according to core temp it keeps jumping around in load and task manager shows it jumping around as well.

I also kept my RAM at 800Mhz. For some reason my RAM runs at 667Mhz stock instead of 800Mhz. Would it be because they have different timings?

EDIT: Nevermind I guess the core went buggy and the test stopped for it so I restarted the test and it's working now but the temps are still wacky like previously stated. I think my heatsink might not be seated right. I could only get the first two spring loaded screws of my TRUE all the way down on each little strip of metal then when I tried the second one for each strip it wouldn't go down all the way and I could move my heatsink still. I think I'll try and get it tightened down better.

EDIT: After just a few minutes that same core keeps having an error and the test has to end. Is that core not able to be clocked this high or should I try and give it a little more voltage?
 
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I dunno my cores look like this idle 36-35-30-34 at max loads its 55-55-49-50.

Also my prime95 does the same thing...with Core0 I think its so you can still navigate.
 
Well it says that the core that keeps failing had a log in the results and it says hardware failure. Should I just stay off of all applications while stress testing? Or maybe give it just a bit more voltage?
 
Finally got it to run on prime95 for an hour so I should be good to go. Temps maxed out at 58C for the two hotter cores but averaged at 55C so I think I'll need to get my heatsink seated better before I go any further, assuming I need to.

Time to go see how crysis and far cry 2 run.
 
Yeah sadly if you get 3.4ghz you will be lucky. The new batch of G0 don't do as well as the old school G0 did.

I could do 3.6ghz with less then 1.46v but temps at 3.4ghz are to high :*(
 
So if I go to 1.5V or more I will harm my CPU? In my BIOS there is a red area with the higher voltages, a green area, and then below that is just a gray area so I'm guessing I should not go above the green voltages?
 
1.5v is suppose to be the point where more it will start to kill the chips lifespan.

Though I wouldn't go past 1.46v just to be safe. Just like max temps are what 65c for Q6600...I wont go past 60c ^-^
 
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