Q6600

[Kewl Munky]

Yesterday I installed my Q6600 on my EVGA 780i motherboard, and things are running stable. I plan on running it a day or two more to make sure nothing goes south.

To the main point of this post. I'm looking for a good stress tester for my setup so I can figure out a good speed to overclock to. I've heard that you should only go to a maximum of 10% below the maximum that the stress tester says.

 

[Droogie]

Prime95
http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft.htm
Orthos
http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/385/Orthos_Stress_Prime_2004.html

 

[diduknowthat]

Run two instances of orthos and set the affinity so that it takes up all 4 cores.

 

[Kewl Munky]

So are either of those pretty straight forward on how to OC? Does it give recommended voltages and such at different speeds?

 

[Geoff]

None of those programs are for overclocking, they are for determining the stability the system after overclocking.

 

[lovely?]

there is no program to use to overclock, we use the bios. use the overclocking 101 thread on the forum to learn exactly what to do.

heres the link: http://www.computerforum.com/16346-overclocking-101-oc101.html

 

[Kewl Munky]

Alright. Thanks.

Also. Why am I supposed to run two instances of Orthos?

 

[Geoff]

Alright. Thanks.

Also. Why am I supposed to run two instances of Orthos?

Because one instance only utilizes up to two cores.

 

[Kewl Munky]

Ok. I'm thinking of trying to go to 3ghz, but I only want to do that when I run a powerful game or something. Does anyone have some good settings to use at 3ghz?

Also, are there some kind of hotkeys I can use to OC when I want to and go back to default when I don't need the extra power anymore?