[OC] Q6600 Help in Overclocking/Modding http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20242293 en Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:36:28 EDT Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:36:28 EDT Re: [OC] Q6600 Help http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20336502 Edge1 : Could someone show me where there is real-world evidence that running the RAM divider at 1:1 is better than, say, 4:5? I've heard the 1:1 thing plenty of times, and its how I run my E6300 (2.8GHz, 400FSB, 800MHz RAM), although I've built other machines that are not running 1:1 and they're rock solid. If Ryan keeps the 9X multi and runs a 4:5 divider, I think he gets 833MHz RAM speed. Not sure how this would be worse than 1:1 667 or 1:1 800 (with lowered multi). other than his chip with the lowered multi would be doing 3.2GHz, which is obviously a bit faster.

A 5:6 divider would give him 3.0GHz and 800MHz RAM speed.

Also, Ryan, on the temp thing, I forget what cooling setup you have. Do you have aftermarket air cooling? My E6300 pushed slightly over 60 in Orthos a few times. Nothing I do real-world pushes it there though. That's getting uncomfortably warm but then again I think thermal shutdown is around 85C. You should be fine, but less heat would be better. Keeping it at 3.0 might be a nice compromise. I backed my E6300 down from 3.0 for the same reason.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20336502 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:17:23 EDT Re: [OC] Q6600 Help http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20305174 Ryan : One other question. You think the large fft test is sufficient enough testing wise?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20305174 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:16:20 EDT Re: [OC] Q6600 Help http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20305153 Ryan : Well been changing voltages the past two days now and I think I am now running stable @3.2ghz with 1.288 volts for about 12 hours now (gonna let it keep running) The last voltage i tried was 1.275 so I might try the voltage in between which is 1.282.

Question though, the temps of core 1&2 have been around 58-60 while 3&4 are around 52-55 (about an hour after prime95 on long fft) are these temps too high? Little concerned it just seems high for 3.2ghz and I am wondering if temperature wise it would be better just to settle with 3 ghz. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20305153 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:12:05 EDT Re: [OC] Q6600 Help http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20294323 ryang : »www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1169366
Got me going at 3Ghz for now on my 965p DQ6]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20294323 Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:34:09 EDT Re: [OC] Q6600 Help http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20291922 Ryan : After researching for hours I finally came across some info that stated that most modern overclock capable boards that dont have a pci clock sync option that means its already locked at 33 and is not changeable. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20291922 Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:21:19 EDT Re: [OC] Q6600 Help http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20288239 Ryan : Okay so I finally got my system up and running and now working on trying to overclock it. I havent overclocked a system in a while so I am following this guide at »www.tomshardware.com/forum/24000···ls-guide

Question though. It says I should manually enter in the pcie frequency and pci sync control or it may raise with my overclock. I have a GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3R and I see the option to set the pci frequency, but there is no option for sync control. :hmm: Should I not worry about changing the sync control or is it hidden in the bios some where?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20288239 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 15:53:12 EDT Re: [OC] Q6600 Help http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20243284 deblin : Here are some of the threads:

»[Unstable] mprime/prime95 rounding error

»[OC] Hitting a wall: CPU or RAM?
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said by hsindogg See Profile :

Sorry to hijack the thread, but what are your other components....have you tried for help?
Yep, I've had a couple of threads about it. It's definitely not the MB, because the MB does 400+ FSB with an X6800 (actually, an engineering sample X6900). The RAM I had in there was 2x1 DDR2-800 G.Skill stuff that supposedly would do 1066 with 2.1v. But, recently I built a 2nd box and bought new RAM (PC2-8000) and even with that it doesn't work stably at 400x8. I run mprime (prime95 for FreeBSD) and it gets rounding errors unless I drop the FSB. I haven't tried finding the point where it craps out between 9x356 and 8x400, since I'm relatively happy with 3.2 GHz.
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Hello...is there anybody in there?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20243083 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:08:15 EDT Re: [OC] Q6600 Help http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20242866 hsindogg : It's a range because each chip has a different value, I guess based on the quality of the chip to run at the stock speed.

Seems most GO's are in the low 1.2v's.

Google Q6600 VID and there are a few threads with people posting their VID's.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20242866 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:25:04 EDT Re: [OC] Q6600 Help http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20242690 Ryan :
said by hsindogg See Profile :

Go for 3.2Ghz!

8x400 should be easily attainable with proper air cooling.

Slap in some DDR2-800 sticks and you're good to go at 1:1 FSB:RAM speed.
Was just about to ask that.. Good might shoot for that then since I did get a after market cooler. Anyone know the default voltage values for the g0 stepping? I keep finding the range, but not the default.

Also I shouldnt have to change the memory's voltage correct? The specs on newegg for the g.skill 800 i bought only goes up to 1.9]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20242690 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:01:03 EDT Re: [OC] Q6600 Help http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20242659 hsindogg : Go for 3.2Ghz!

8x400 should be easily attainable with proper air cooling.

Slap in some DDR2-800 sticks and you're good to go at 1:1 FSB:RAM speed.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20242659 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:54:57 EDT Re: [OC] Q6600 Help http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20242378 deblin : Ideally, you want a 1:1 ratio between FSB and memory. So yes, you'd do a 9x333 multiplier, so run the RAM at 667.

There is a modest increase in performance with a 1:1 ratio. The newer memory controllers generally do a good job of hiding the latency penalties.
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