Recent content by aguilpa1

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    Poor Q6600 Overclocking

    Is he sure he doesn't have the AR Evga 680i SLI instead of the A1? Reason being I couldn't get mine to overclock worth squat past 1200FSB, max 1220FSB regardless of voltage till I did some digging and found out mine was an AR not A1. very unstable. I just got the new board installed...
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    Q6600 OC dud advice, please

    Never mind guys, I found out that my board is revision AR which has problems with going over 1200FSB with quadcores and Evga will be giving me an RMA cross ship for a replacement to fix the problem. So if you to have an AR series 680i SLI mainboard and a newly acquired Quad and plan to OC...
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    Q6600 OC dud advice, please

    Maybe luck but I never had problems with the board even pushing the E6400 up to 3.73Ghz with FSB around 1666 and voltage up to 1.55v, or about the chips limit. Monday I'll decide after playing with it some more over the weekend. If it doesn't get any better I think its going back. I know...
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    Q6600 OC dud advice, please

    I had been running an E6400, 1.4v, 3.6Ghz, 1600FSB, works well. Q6600, B3, get cheap, so I buy one till Penryn makes its debut. This chip won't OC over 2.7Ghz, 1.24v 1200FSB. You may say, oh look, your voltage is to low, yes it is. There is a reason. If I set v to manual, the chip, or...
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    ** SLI ** users please report in

    Dual 8800GTX 768MB here. Work great! The only downside is cost but the GTX series will OC to the speed of Ultra GTX so there is a bonus to that. Performance is top notch in all situations. Evga 680i SLI : E6400 @ 3.6Ghz (H2O) 450x8 : 8800GTX x 2 SLI 649/2052 2GB XMS2 Dominator 4-4-4-12...