Help me acheive 3.6ghz

[Heller]

So this is my first "serious" o/c and i want to push my q6600 to 3.6ghz

Would any body mind using MS pain and marking exactly what i should increase / decrease and voltage wise?


Here are the pics,

Main Bios Page,

http://i20.photobucket.com/alb.../heller91/S7001468.jpg

Soft Menu Setup Page,

http://i20.photobucket.com/alb.../heller91/S7001469.jpg

Standard Cmos Page

http://i20.photobucket.com/alb.../heller91/S7001470.jpg

Advanced Bios Features > CPU Features

http://i20.photobucket.com/alb.../heller91/S7001477.jpg

Advanced Bios features > Advanced chipset features

http://i20.photobucket.com/alb.../heller91/S7001478.jpg

PC Specs-
Abit IP35-E
Q6600 G0 + Tuniq Tower
Corsair DDR2 (http://www.newegg.com/product/...?item=N82E16820145034) + another set otw (not installed yet)
7900GT
Antec Neo 500W

 

[Tempered81]

Originally posted by: Heller

Soft Menu Setup Page,

http://i20.photobucket.com/alb.../heller91/S7001469.jpg


PC Specs-
Abit IP35-E
Q6600 G0 + Tuniq Tower
Corsair DDR2 (http://www.newegg.com/product/...?item=N82E16820145034) + another set otw (not installed yet)
7900GT
Antec Neo 500W

Read greysky's guide

and then try this:

Soft Menu:


cpu operating speed 3600(400)
external clock 400
multiplier 9x
new cpu clock 3600mhz
1:1 manual (ddr2-800)
pci freq 100mhz

voltage control manual
cpu core 1.42 (may take more)
ddr2 voltage manual 2.1 (or 2.2 if you need)
cpu vtt 1.20 (may take more)
ich 1.50
mch 1.40 (may take more)
cpu gtl ref 63%

 

[TheRyuu]

I'd try vcore of 1.45 first, with the vdroop it'll probably need it, you can always try going down later. I'd increase the cpu vtt (fsb voltage) to 1.23, and mch (North Bridge) to 1.44 in order to achive stability at such high fsb speeds.

Also, you may have to kick up the ICH (South Bridge) voltage as well, no more then two notches though.
I wouldn't exceed 2.1v on the memory. You shouldn't really need more then 2.0 (or even 1.8, depending on timings/ram) for ddr2-800. (Mine takes 2.0v and is at 4-4-4-12 2T)

Also, when overclocking the cpu, set ram voltage to 2.1, and have it in 1:1 and set the timings to 5-5-5-15 2T to keep them out of the equation.


When (and if you boot into windows), just start up prime95 (located in the core2 overclocking thread or whatever it's called, it's stickied). Run the small test (top one) for all 4 cores, if it crashes within like, 5 seconds, it's unstable. But let this run for about 5-10min. If you get no errors, find a block of time (like when sleeping) and let that thing run all night and even into the next day giving it a good 12 hours (or more) to test. If you get no errors, great, if you do though, your system is ALMOST stable but just isn't there yet.

At that point, you'd probably want to look at increasing the vcore or the MCH voltage (or even the ICH voltage one notch. I've never had to increase my vtt voltage besides one notch to 1.23v. YMMV though.