Help Overclocking Q6600 on Asus P5Q Deluxe Board

[jdfox]

Hey everyone, I've just built my first every pc. Specs are Asus p5q deluxe board, 4GB Kingston Hyper X ram 4x1gb, q6600 CPU, 650w psu, xfx 4870x2(crossfire) and i would like to over clock my CPU with a low multiplier to 3.2-3.3ghz if anyone could help me it would be much appreciated. thanks for looking.

 

[Markfw]

I thought you were at 3.6, but it was running hot ? This from our PM:

"I have so far managed to get it to 3.6ghz but its running pretty hot with the Arctic cooler, 34.c idol and 55.c+ load. I want to try get it to around 3.3ghz with a lower multiplier. Would yo be able to recommend some bios settings that would come close to that? "

 

[IGemini]

No CPU in S775 other than the extreme editions will allow changing the multiplier, you're stuck at 9x with FSB adjustment only.

 

[asher]

No CPU in S775 other than the extreme editions will allow changing the multiplier, you're stuck at 9x with FSB adjustment only.

That is incorrect, I just overclocked my Q6600 and im running it at 475x8 on a P5Q PRO

To the OP: What are your current FSB and voltages set at? Also, what speed is your RAM rated for?

 

[VirtualLarry]

SpeedStep support allows multis to be adjusted downward from the max, down to 6x (lowest multi supported on C2D chips.)

 

[Markfw]

No CPU in S775 other than the extreme editions will allow changing the multiplier, you're stuck at 9x with FSB adjustment only.

He said with a "LOW" multiplier, so 8 x 400 ?

 

[jdfox]

I thought you were at 3.6, but it was running hot ? This from our PM:

"I have so far managed to get it to 3.6ghz but its running pretty hot with the Arctic cooler, 34.c idol and 55.c+ load. I want to try get it to around 3.3ghz with a lower multiplier. Would yo be able to recommend some bios settings that would come close to that? "

yes mate i did but i dont want it that high i want to get 3.2ghz with a low multiplier.

 

[jdfox]

That is incorrect, I just overclocked my Q6600 and im running it at 475x8 on a P5Q PRO

To the OP: What are your current FSB and voltages set at? Also, what speed is your RAM rated for?

right now i have it set to default but set ram to run at 1066. I would like 3.2ghz with a multiplier of maybe 7 is that's possible.

 

[jdfox]

He said with a "LOW" multiplier, so 8 x 400 ?

Yes 8x400 would be good but i cant get it to boot at that not sure about all the other settings. keeps crashing and coming up overclock failed.

 

[jdfox]

That is incorrect, I just overclocked my Q6600 and im running it at 475x8 on a P5Q PRO

To the OP: What are your current FSB and voltages set at? Also, what speed is your RAM rated for?

my ram is Kingston HyperX pc2-8500 4GB total x4 1GB kit

 

[jdfox]

i could just do with the bios settings for evrything for a 8x400 setting keeping ram at 1066 im not sure about all the other settings so i dnt want to mess with them too much

 

[Markfw]

You have to change the memory multiplier, don't know where that is on your motherboard. Also, up the NB voltage and some other ones, not sure.

 

[Shmee]

You have to change the memory multiplier, don't know where that is on your motherboard. Also, up the NB voltage and some other ones, not sure.

This is crucial. For 4 sticks of ram at high frequency, you will need to up northbridge, fsb voltage probably, and probably memory voltage as well.

 

[GundamF91]

You run up 4 sticks and you will need help for northbridge as mentioned. I am running P5Q Deluxe also, and it's a good board, but full load of 4 sticks will warm it up.

 

[jdfox]

This is crucial. For 4 sticks of ram at high frequency, you will need to up northbridge, fsb voltage probably, and probably memory voltage as well.

I have set the NB voltage to 1.40v seems to be okay. Memory voltage is at 2.1v as its running at 1066 and FSB is 1.35 now i got 8 hours on 2 workers with Prime95 and 15 hours and counting on the other two doing blend but tried to do some large ffts and got error straight away. Anything i've set wrong? Should i up the fsb volts more?

 

[Shmee]

that would definitely indicate memory or MCH, not sure what you can do other than run memtest or adjust voltage or frequency on memory.

 

[jdfox]

that would definitely indicate memory or MCH, not sure what you can do other than run memtest or adjust voltage or frequency on memory.

Maybe i can run the memory at 1006 rather than 1066? would you be able to recommend some settings for this board to run at 3.2g with the cpu multiplier on auto as the temps now are 22 27 26 23.c idol and 56.c load but if speedstep was on it would go even lower which would be better. I know im not the best at this but we have to start somewhere. This is the first pc i've ever built or o.c so any help would be gladly appreciated with the bios.