I'm new to overclocking and I'm having a lot of trouble getting my Q6600 to 3ghz. I had no problems overclocking it to 2.8ghz(312x9), with the vcore and RAM voltage at stock, 1.3v and 1.8v, respectively. But when I get it up to 3ghz, it gets errors/reboots after running Prime95 for a few minutes4. I've tried bumping up the vcore all the way to 1.3375v, but that didn't do anything. It started getting more stable as I increased the RAM voltage, although there didn't seem to be a difference between 2.1v and 2.2v. I was able to get it to run in Prime95 for about an hour and a half before I got an error. The temperatures haven't risen at all from stock to 3ghz. It runs at about 37C idle/51C full load. Any ideas on how to get it stable at 3ghz?
Here are my specs:
Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3L
Corsair CMPSU-650TX
Q6600 G0
G Skill 4x2GB DDR2 800 5-5-5-15
Visiontek Radeon HD 4870
WD 640GB HD
Here are my specs:
Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3L
Corsair CMPSU-650TX
Q6600 G0
G Skill 4x2GB DDR2 800 5-5-5-15
Visiontek Radeon HD 4870
WD 640GB HD
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