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Asus P5Q-E and Q6600 Overclock time, help needed!

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coolamasta

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I already have a Q6600 overclocked to 3.0 GHz on a Striker Extreme board but I also have a Asus P5Q-E which has the P45 intel chipset with a Q6600 which is acting as my home server but I would like to get that upto 3.0Ghz a core as well.

The cooling system is upto it just not sure how overclockable the motherboard is?

I have 8GB of Kingston PC6400 (800mhz) DDR 2 ram in there as well (4 x 2gb sticks)

Anyone got any advise on this or have done this on a P5Qe themselves?

Thanks in advance for any help 😀

 
9x333 is a piece of cake for a P5Q series mobo.

You might need a bit more than stock voltage for NB due to your 8 GB, but otherwise that should not be difficult.
 
Cheers bud, I will knock the Mem & NB voltage up .1 or .2 volt after and see what prime 95 does to it, do you think I will need to bump the V-core up a bit?

I haven't played with overclocking for over a year now since I done my Striker and other 6600 so cant remember exactly what things needed to be done now...
 
My P5Q Pro will do 400 MHz FSB with all MB voltages @ stock and all RAM slots filled, so I would go ahead see what your P5Q-E is willing to do @ stock. Set it to run @ 333 * 6 or 333 * 7 then run some large FFT prime, etc. to see how the MB is holding up.

These are tolerant, easily OCable motherboards, at least in the 400 and below range.
 
I love my P5QE. I got a Q6600 in it too and it easily does 333x9 with all stock voltages. If only it would allow me to run 1t command rate.
 
Yep, 3.0GHz on that board should be a breeze, the only settings you may need to increase are Vcore, VTT (important for quad OC'ing), and enabling Load Line Calibration (reduces Vdroop with lower Vcore max). Just check your VID first with Core Temp, if its a newer Q6600 with a 1.325 VID it may require more tweaking than one with a VID of 1.3 or lower.
 
The VID on this one is 1.2750v 😀

Not had chance to clock it yet as I got a few things running on it I cant stop at mo but am going to give it a go this week, thanks for your help all
 
Got a chance to give it a go today and its quite happy at 3.06ghz after a while of Prim 95'ing.

have set the FSB to 333, upped the Vcore to 1.30v and basically left everything else on Auto and it seems stable, was a shiiiiiiit load easier to overclock than my striker extreme!!
 
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