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Is it pretty much garunteed to run a Q6600 at 3.0Ghz?

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BZeto

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I really dont mind running my new Q6600 at stock speeds, but I might as well overclock it if it doesnt require much/if any voltage increase. I'm using a Tuniq Tower 120 for cooling so I expect decent temps. I actually forgot to look at my stepping before putting it on as well. I'm just curious if the majority of Q6600's are reaching 3.0Ghz pretty easily with a simple FSB increase?

Btw, im still waiting on my power supply to arrive, so I can't even turn the system on yet.

Thanks
 
For the most part, 3Ghz is garenteed for the chip itself with low or no voltage increase. However, some motherboards are really crappy and will hold you back. But again, for the most part, you will hit 3Ghz pretty easily.
 
Use CPU-Z to determine what stepping you've got. But even a B3 will do 3ghz without much trouble if any at all 🙂
 
My B3 ran 3Ghz at stock voltage P95 12+ hours stable. B3 & Go's pretty much overclock similar, with the G0's slightly better.
 
Originally posted by: jeffw2767602
if its a g0 stepping its almost guaranteed as long as nothing else in your system gets in the way.
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Especially the motherboard. My P5K couldn;t stay stable@3000-3150 (changed almost daily). I switched motherboards, and now its rock solid@3.320

For a OC'ed quad, PSU and motherboard are probably the two most important items, due to the high power usage. HSF comes next, as they do put out quite a bit of heat, and even @ 3.0 I think you need good aftermarket cooling.
 
Mobo is a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R. Corsair 550W PSU. The system is up and im installing windows now. I'll bump it up to 3.0Ghz tonight after I get everything installed and working.
 
Originally posted by: MarcVenice
Use CPU-Z to determine what stepping you've got. But even a B3 will do 3ghz without much trouble if any at all 🙂
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Yep. My B3 that I had did 3Ghz with ease.

My new G0 is running at 3420 on air right now though. Well worth ditching the B3. 😛
 
Originally posted by: ArchAngel777
My B3 ran 3Ghz at stock voltage P95 12+ hours stable. B3 & Go's pretty much overclock similar, with the G0's slightly better.
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I wouldnt call that entirely accurate.

My B3 wouldnt go over 3.1ghz 24h prime stable in the rig in sig.

and the G0... well... sig.
 
Originally posted by: Acanthus
Originally posted by: ArchAngel777
My B3 ran 3Ghz at stock voltage P95 12+ hours stable. B3 & Go's pretty much overclock similar, with the G0's slightly better.
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I wouldnt call that entirely accurate.

My B3 wouldnt go over 3.1ghz 24h prime stable in the rig in sig.

and the G0... well... sig.
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My B3 wouldn't even stay stable at 3.1, UNTIL I CHANGED THE MOTHERBOARD TO THE DQ6. Now its at 3.320 rock solid.
 
CPU-Z shows my Stepping as B, but the Revision as G0. So do I have the B3 or the G0? Im assuming its the G0 and I got lucky.

Do you guys recommend turning the auto speed setting off? It seems to bounce from 1.6ghz to 2.4ghz fairly often.
 
Originally posted by: BZeto
CPU-Z shows my Stepping as B, but the Revision as G0. So do I have the B3 or the G0? Im assuming its the G0 and I got lucky.

Do you guys recommend turning the auto speed setting off? It seems to bounce from 1.6ghz to 2.4ghz fairly often.
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yep you got a G0, good goin 😉

you might want to leave the speed setting on (EIST & C1E), it's nice to have it run cooler and with no stress when it's idle. the one thing i did was turn off the hsf fan control, i like it running a constant speed. i don't like hearing it rev up all the time. the tuniq has it's own manual speed control anyway.

just leave it on the default 9x multi and (assuming you've got ddr800) crank up the fsb to 333 1:1 and you'll be at 3ghz. with the tuniq & the G0 you're pretty much guaranteed about 3.4ghz if you want to give it some more juice. what ram do you have?

mine needs 1.4775v to get to 3.6 stable, but it was stable at 3.51ghz with only 1.4275v. your board may run with less vcore set in bios since my board (ip 35 pro) has more vdroop.
 
Originally posted by: kenrippy
Originally posted by: BZeto
CPU-Z shows my Stepping as B, but the Revision as G0. So do I have the B3 or the G0? Im assuming its the G0 and I got lucky.

Do you guys recommend turning the auto speed setting off? It seems to bounce from 1.6ghz to 2.4ghz fairly often.
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yep you got a G0, good goin 😉

you might want to leave the speed setting on (EIST & C1E), it's nice to have it run cooler and with no stress when it's idle. the one thing i did was turn off the hsf fan control, i like it running a constant speed. i don't like hearing it rev up all the time. the tuniq has it's own manual speed control anyway.

just leave it on the default 9x multi and (assuming you've got ddr800) crank up the fsb to 333 1:1 and you'll be at 3ghz. with the tuniq & the G0 you're pretty much guaranteed about 3.4ghz if you want to give it some more juice. what ram do you have?

mine needs 1.4775v to get to 3.6 stable, but it was stable at 3.51ghz with only 1.4275v. your board may run with less vcore set in bios since my board (ip 35 pro) has more vdroop.
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My RAM is 2 x 1GB Crucial Ballistix DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
I'll go ahead and raise the FSB up to 333. Currently my memory settings show its at 400MHz and 5-5-5-18. Not sure if I'll try lowering the timings yet.

Thanks for the help.
 
With Crucial Ballistix, I set my timings to 4-4-4-12, vdimm to 2.1, fsb to 333 and have had no stability problems with the q6600.
 
Originally posted by: kenrippy
Originally posted by: BZeto
CPU-Z shows my Stepping as B, but the Revision as G0. So do I have the B3 or the G0? Im assuming its the G0 and I got lucky.

Do you guys recommend turning the auto speed setting off? It seems to bounce from 1.6ghz to 2.4ghz fairly often.
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yep you got a G0, good goin 😉

you might want to leave the speed setting on (EIST & C1E), it's nice to have it run cooler and with no stress when it's idle. the one thing i did was turn off the hsf fan control, i like it running a constant speed. i don't like hearing it rev up all the time. the tuniq has it's own manual speed control anyway.

just leave it on the default 9x multi and (assuming you've got ddr800) crank up the fsb to 333 1:1 and you'll be at 3ghz. with the tuniq & the G0 you're pretty much guaranteed about 3.4ghz if you want to give it some more juice. what ram do you have?
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I had C1E off for testing, but I turned it back on when I was finished.

But this guy is right, you should be able to hit 3.4 on air. I am particularly proud of this, especially since I had a B3 that could not get much over 3Ghz stable two days ago. Might not be as big of an overclock as some of the G0 owners here, but it is better than what I had.

I am using a DFI Lanparty UT P35-T2R, and a Thermalright Ultra120 Extreme.
 
I just picked up a ASUS P5K, Q6600, Corsair 520watt, and a P180 and I OC'd that chip with ease--first try and no issues. This is coming from someone who hasnt OC'd in years and kind of strayed away from it.
 
Originally posted by: BZeto
Originally posted by: kenrippy
Originally posted by: BZeto
CPU-Z shows my Stepping as B, but the Revision as G0. So do I have the B3 or the G0? Im assuming its the G0 and I got lucky.

Do you guys recommend turning the auto speed setting off? It seems to bounce from 1.6ghz to 2.4ghz fairly often.
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yep you got a G0, good goin 😉

you might want to leave the speed setting on (EIST & C1E), it's nice to have it run cooler and with no stress when it's idle. the one thing i did was turn off the hsf fan control, i like it running a constant speed. i don't like hearing it rev up all the time. the tuniq has it's own manual speed control anyway.

just leave it on the default 9x multi and (assuming you've got ddr800) crank up the fsb to 333 1:1 and you'll be at 3ghz. with the tuniq & the G0 you're pretty much guaranteed about 3.4ghz if you want to give it some more juice. what ram do you have?

mine needs 1.4775v to get to 3.6 stable, but it was stable at 3.51ghz with only 1.4275v. your board may run with less vcore set in bios since my board (ip 35 pro) has more vdroop.
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My RAM is 2 x 1GB Crucial Ballistix DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
I'll go ahead and raise the FSB up to 333. Currently my memory settings show its at 400MHz and 5-5-5-18. Not sure if I'll try lowering the timings yet.

Thanks for the help.
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i have the same ram but i have 4gb. you can manually set those ram timings to 4-4-4-12-24 if you want. those timings are good up to 400mhz. it should do that on about 2v, but if you have stability issues don't hesitate to bump it up to 2.2 to see if that solves it.

with your cooling, you could even push it more (i would 😀)
work your way up to about 380x9. i'm sure your hardware will do it, just raise the vdimm a little as you go, after you get errors in prime95 or orthos or whatever you use. check the quad overclocking guide that's stickied in this forum for a link to the prime version that works on all 4 cores.

let us know how it goes


 
Ok, the only problem I seem to be having is when I set the FSB to 333, CPUZ shows my memory frequency at 500Mhz instead of 400Mhz. The DDR2 multiplier is set to auto in the bios, but the lowest i can set it manually is 2.5. I'm really not sure how I can keep the memory at 400Mhz while raising the FSB.
 
lower your RAM MHz....when you overclock, you oc everything....so lower the MHz until you come up with 400MHz
 
Originally posted by: BZeto
Ok, the only problem I seem to be having is when I set the FSB to 333, CPUZ shows my memory frequency at 500Mhz instead of 400Mhz. The DDR2 multiplier is set to auto in the bios, but the lowest i can set it manually is 2.5. I'm really not sure how I can keep the memory at 400Mhz while raising the FSB.
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you need to manually set the multiplier to 9x and set the fsb (external clock) to 333. your ratio (dram speed CPU/DRAM) should also be set to 1:1
 
Yeah, i think I got it now. Although I couldnt see all the RAM multi values, i was able to adjust it manually.

Now running at 9 x 334 (3006Mhz), 1.232 VCore
RAM: 400Mhz, 4-4-4-12

I'm gonna run some memtest and P95 here pretty soon. I have a feeling my Vcore is a little low. Idle temps seem decent, around 36C between three cores, one core is showing 30C though, I'm pretty sure I applied the thermal compound evenly, too.. Tjunction is at 100C, not sure if I need to worry about that though.
 
cool. you've got prime95 v25.4 right? that's the good one

ah heck, why mess around, give it 1.35v and 380x9. your ram won't need anymore voltage (at least mine didn't until i got to 400fsb)
 
Originally posted by: BZeto
Mobo is a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R. Corsair 550W PSU. The system is up and im installing windows now. I'll bump it up to 3.0Ghz tonight after I get everything installed and working.
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We have exactly the same setup except I have 4 gigs of the same mem, makes no difference with over clocking, let me know if you need any help. I can easily get it to 3.4 stable, a tad hot, but stable. I do not think I care much about the heat because i will have a new chip in there when the new heavy hitters come out. I will watch this thread.
 
Originally posted by: kenrippy
cool. you've got prime95 v25.4 right? that's the good one

ah heck, why mess around, give it 1.35v and 380x9. your ram won't need anymore voltage (at least mine didn't until i got to 400fsb)
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That crucial mem, will need more voltage.
 
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