INTEL QX6700?

[mUcHiLuS]

any advice, i want to oc this processor beyond 3ghz, but is unstable on my asus striker with the lastest bios? any sugestion?

 

[Markfw]

700 wat PC power and cooling ? What motherboard ? what HSF ?

 

[Duvie]

Mine does 3.2ghz with 1.4v set in bios but undervolts to 1.36v in windows and under load drops to 1.31v....

I can get it to post at 3.4ghz and even run it fine at 3.3ghz. It acts strange at 3.33ghz when I need to give it 1.45v set in bios. It acts as if it is throttling but the temps are under 70c in coretemp. It may be throttling TM1 since i have no options to shut that off in the bios. I can run it at the voltage I have now and impede the fan on the heatsink to purposely raise temps to 80c and no throttling....

So it is quirky.

fact is I am doing it with a 140 dollar DS3 mobo. I think power is an issue with this board. I have a 6phase power DFI I am going to try it on....

Mine is an ES so I have unlocked multi.

I run it at 12x 266 = 3.2ghz

or

10x330 = 3.3ghz

 

[mUcHiLuS]

but you have the same mainboard? i have a asus striker 680i? if you have it, can you save the bio on file wit the opcion that have to.


i would like to see your 3.33ghz configuracion

 

[mUcHiLuS]

the mainboard is ASUS STRIKER 680I. and in the striker i have the enermax galaxy 1000 watts. quad sli.



with 2 evga 8800gtx on sli.

 

[Duvie]

No I have a Gigabyte DS3 mobo right now.

I have a 975x DFI infinity I am going to try it on. I al using a 750watt PC Power and cooling but it ran fine even oc'd on a 600watt OCZ. I am using a 6800GT oc'd to ultra level and converted to a quadro card.

I am going to possibly try the 750 with the quad on the DFI along with (2) x1900's....


Damn the striker is sooooooo damn expensive.....Kind of pisses you off if I get a better OC with a 140 dollar board....

 

[mUcHiLuS]

thx bro, i'll try it. firt, let me see if i can reach 3.2 stable with 1.40 volts. then i'll figure out if i can reach other good speeds, i've seen around that the processor support up to 3.45ghz.



i gotta see this.



at the moment i have other rig1, with e6400@3.4ghz with 1.368v. of course i had a zalman waterblock, running on idle at 34c, full load 42c.

not bad.

 

[n7]

Thus far i believe ppl are getting the best OCing results with P965 motherboards from what i read on XS.

Though mainly it's P5B-Ds they are using.

 

[mUcHiLuS]

how you set the multipler to 12? because the default factory is 10, so the only way is to reach under 10x or below.

 

[Duvie]

mine is an "ES".....means an engineering sample...not for retail....was a review chip...

 

[mUcHiLuS]

very nice,! how you get this master piece?

 

[Shimmishim]

Originally posted by: n7
Thus far i believe ppl are getting the best OCing results with P965 motherboards from what i read on XS.

Though mainly it's P5B-Ds they are using.

yes, i've been reading the same thing.

400+ mhz possible on the P5B-Deluxe.

I don't think you're going to do much better than 320-330 on that 680i board

 

[JAG87]

its still beyond me why people overclock FSB when they have unlocked chips.

performance gain from high FSB <<< motherboard instability from high FSB

use the multipliers, that way the only thing that might become unstable is your chip.

 

[Shimmishim]

Originally posted by: JAG87
its still beyond me why people overclock FSB when they have unlocked chips.

performance gain from high FSB <<< motherboard instability from high FSB

use the multipliers, that way the only thing that might become unstable is your chip.

from what i understand, the QX6700 is locked upwards, unless you have a ES...

 

[Idontcare]

QX6700 is not multiplier locked. Not locked up, not locked down. You are free to set it either direction. I have one.

 

[Elfear]

Originally posted by: Shimmishim

Originally posted by: JAG87
its still beyond me why people overclock FSB when they have unlocked chips.

performance gain from high FSB <<< motherboard instability from high FSB

use the multipliers, that way the only thing that might become unstable is your chip.

from what i understand, the QX6700 is locked upwards, unless you have a ES...

From what I've been reading the multi should be unlocked up and down on the QX6700. Here is a thread over at XS showing a x15 multi being used.

The ES chips are hit and miss. Some seem to have unlocked multis and some don't. I was using a Xeon 3210 ES (2.13GHz quad) and the multipliers were locked on an MSI 975X and a Bad Axe 2 I tried.

 

[terentenet]

I also have an ES QX6700. I can run it at either 3GHz (300x10) or 3.2GHz (266x12). I went for the 3GHz (300x10) to avoid the FSB bottleneck. Still waiting for a BIOS to enable higher overclocks and the Vapochill LS unit to cool it down.

 

[Elfear]

So are the retail QX6700s overclocking better than the ES chips?

 

[JAG87]

they clock about the same

ES will always give you the slight edge over retail because its made out of binned silicon.
but with the quad cores were talking like 100 mhz edge. not like with the C2Ds where the ES B1 chips clock 400 mhz better than the retails.

i got a QX6700 ES B1, does 3.2 ghz with stock voltage
idles at 33 and loads at 60 (dropped 2C after I did some work inside the tower today, I should do it more often i guess my hands are magic)

 

[mUcHiLuS]

so you recommend me to reach 3.2 stable on this mainboard? can i reach the 3.2ghz with the stock voltage with the retail version of the cpu?


Let me know you advice.