E6600 OC @ stock Voltage - What are you geting?

[22hertz]

I can only get 2.5Ghz at stock voltage
I raised to 1.375 and couldnt even get booted to 2.9Ghz

Am I doing something wrong or does this processor just blow?

 

[Mashed Potato]

I was getting 3.25 no problem on stock voltage. The idle temps were great but when I tested them on orthos, they cranked up to 60c quite quickly. I waited till I got my aftermarket cooler to push any further. What are your system specs? People will be more likely to respond if they have some info to respond on. I was lucky, I could just raise the fsb to get my oc. Perhaps you need to tweak the system a little bit.

 

[PCTC2]

what stepping/code do you have? it's on the Box/IHS (L632AXXX) is an example. Not the SL9T9 code). If it's F and not A (in the example) or B, it is known that that code has had some problems OCing. But, as with Mashed Potato, what are your system specs and BIOS settings?

 

[Mashed Potato]

just posted my specs here

p5w dh
6600
mushkin 8500
8800 gtx

the only things i changed when oc'ing stock were the fsb first, then the ram timings.

I couldnt move the fsb higher than 365 without doing anything else.

 

[22hertz]

Here is what I have

L641A736 (E6600)
Bad Axe2 latest BIOS
2Gigs Buffallo Firestiks

This is my first time building a PC and never OC before either so maybe Im doing something wrong.
I have a Seasonic 600W PS so that should be a stable power source. Im only running a stock EVGA 7600GT , two Seagate 7200.10 HHD and one DVD optical...I dont think that would draw that much power.

Ive been keeping an eye on the temps...ide around 43C and while I havent checked uder exteme load I have tried one instance of super pi and temps go to 45C max.

I dont really understand the FSB to MEM ratio. There is a lot I dont understand actually and am trying to read and figure it out without burning something up.

 

[iviustang50h]

I have a Tuniq Tower 120, Asus Commando motherboard, an E6600 and 2 gigs of G.Skill DDR1000 memory (rated at 4-4-4-5 @2.2 V) and I cannot overclock very well either. I too am wondering if I got a crap E6600. My stepping is L640A820. I couldn't even hit 3.0GHz without rasing the vcore. Right now I have to run a vcore of 1.5 (1.45 according to speedfan, probably due to vdroop) just to maintain stability in orthos at a 3.2GHz. Something is just not right...

 

[22hertz]

Looks like Intel is binning more agressively now.
Im only getting 100Mhz more out of this chip at stock voltage...that just sucks

 

[iviustang50h]

yes it does. Sorry buddy! 🙁

 

[22hertz]

It beats the 1Ghz AMD Athlon computer I was using previos to this build with 128M of RAM😀

 

[Brunnis]

My E6600 L631B120 does 3GHz on 1.17Vand with stock 1.2675V it manages around 3.3GHz.