advice need on 3.6ghz o.c q6600 p5q-d

[jdfox]

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ok will get it done now.

 

[jdfox]

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how do i fill it in ? cant find where to add your specs.

 

[jdfox]

What are you using to monitor the temps? Sub-60C seems awfully good for that vCore and frequency. In any case, I would rather take comfortable 3.3~3.4 GHz (heck even 3.2 GHz which is likely achievable near stock vCore) than headache-inducing 3.6 GHz.

i know i thought that cos i was having problems with heat then i took the board out completely changed to arctic 5 ceramic lapped cooler and fitted as carefully as i could. And i was amazed i was getting high temps of 60-70.c small fft's at 3ghz and mid 40's idle. i use core temp and real temp now and one or two others just to make sure there reading correctly.

 

[jdfox]

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heres my specs
Asus P5Q-Deluxe @ 1600mhz @1.448v
Q6600 @3599mhz
Ocz Gladiator @2800rpm air
4x1GB Kingston HyperX pc2-8500
2TB hitatchi Raid0 64KB
750w gaming psu 54 amps

 

[alkemyst]

Because I learn from having my mistakes being pointed out to me. If you don't find them constructive, that's your call.

And it was worth checking that "new Q6600" was correct & not a typo.

Dude you have been here since 2006, you heard of PM? Did his quoting really *BOTHER* you? Do you think all 1 post members are somehow ursurpers or something?

Get over yourself.

 

[jihe]

New Q6600? What year is this? *checks calendar*

And great post #2: fully quote yourself from #1 to add one line. This is what the Edit button is for.

Oh noes! Think of all those electrons and screen estates going to waste! The horror!

 

[rbk123]

A few things:
- try taking 2 of your ram sticks out. Frequently running 4 sticks lowers the attainable OC on a board. See how it performs with just 2
- I run my Q6600 @ 1.4675 in BIOS but have a lot of Vdroop with my Abit P35-E
--- My CPU-Z shows 1.432V at idle; even lower under load
- I've been running at that voltage for over 3 years now as it's been my main rig since April '08
- Back in the day, there were many threads of people pushing their Q6600's over 1.5V with no issues, however the Intel spec sheet lists 1.5V as the upper range limit. Many have run their Q6600's at your voltages or greater for over 4 years now.
- My temps are right around 40 at idle and upper 60's full load with a Zalman 9500 (very good but not great cooler).

- Most interesting: my temps read a few degrees higher under CoreTemp in Win7 than they did in XP (particularly at idle).
--- the temps in Coretemp under Win7 seem to shoot up 5-8 degrees instantaneously with any load, whereas under XP they would work their way up that amount more gradually. I am guessing this is tied to differences in the temp monitoring software changes over time and between OS's.

 

[jdfox]

thanks for all the reply's but come one look at the bios settings ive posted and just hlp me tweak them to get 3.7ghz my temps are are not a problem. just want to squeeze an extra 100mhz ot of it. appreciate yor time and help.