Need OC Help q6600 IP35

[chevmaro]

I am unable to hit 3.2ghz on this chip. I can run 3.0 with no problems at all even with factory voltage settings of 1.325. I do this at 333x9. I was shooting for 400x8 so I could run ram at 1:1 and I can get it to boot with 1.3650 vcore and 1.23 vtt but it fails prime after about 10 minutes. Temps are near 60c in speedfan. I upped the voltage from there going to 1.385 and had similiar results. I tried 1.405 vcore and was stable in prime for about the same duration. Temps were reaching 63c in speedfan with those volts. Is that too hot? Why cant I get stable off this oc. I was thinking it was a mild OC compated to other quads i have seen. I have a G0 stepping. I tried updating my bios I am currently running bios 18 on my Abit IP35. Even at factory voltage of 1.325 and running at 333x9 I am still getting 43c at idle and 55c at load. This seems hot to me with the cooler I have. Do you think I need to reseat it? Or is that normal?

Abit IP35
q6600 G0
Artic Freezer 7 Pro
Crucial Ballistix 2gb
Antec Quattro 1000
ATI HD4870

 

[BlueAcolyte]

The temps you have at 3Ghz are pretty good to me, you shouldn't be worried until the high-60's.

 

[chevmaro]

So if I bump Vcore to 1.425 and I can keep temps down to about 65c is that safe? I think I might be able to get stable then but the temps were scaring me. Is voltage the only thing that increases heat or does clock speed even at factory voltage increase also?

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: BlueAcolyte
The temps you have at 3Ghz are pretty good to me, you shouldn't be worried until the high-60's.

Umm, he's already above 70C: SpeedFan reads 15C too low, since his Q6600 is a G0.

Originally posted by: chevmaro
Is voltage the only thing that increases heat or does clock speed even at factory voltage increase also?

Both increase heat production, but clockspeed increases it linearly, while voltage increases it exponentially.

 

[darckhart]

I havent tried bios 18 yet, but I found bios 17 to, for some unknown reason, make my chip want more voltage than it needed for the same clocks at bios 16. Maybe b18 is doing the same thing? Anyway, I moved back to b16 and get 425x8 at vcore=1.3775. (VID of my chip is 1.2875) Any higher fsb requires way more voltage than I care to use. Can't help you with temps since I wc. gl

 

[SolMiester]

Originally posted by: chevmaro
I am unable to hit 3.2ghz on this chip. I can run 3.0 with no problems at all even with factory voltage settings of 1.325. I do this at 333x9. I was shooting for 400x8 so I could run ram at 1:1 and I can get it to boot with 1.3650 vcore and 1.23 vtt but it fails prime after about 10 minutes. Temps are near 60c in speedfan. I upped the voltage from there going to 1.385 and had similiar results. I tried 1.405 vcore and was stable in prime for about the same duration. Temps were reaching 63c in speedfan with those volts. Is that too hot? Why cant I get stable off this oc. I was thinking it was a mild OC compated to other quads i have seen. I have a G0 stepping. I tried updating my bios I am currently running bios 18 on my Abit IP35. Even at factory voltage of 1.325 and running at 333x9 I am still getting 43c at idle and 55c at load. This seems hot to me with the cooler I have. Do you think I need to reseat it? Or is that normal?

Abit IP35
q6600 G0
Artic Freezer 7 Pro
Crucial Ballistix 2gb
Antec Quattro 1000
ATI HD4870

My clock is the same, so are the temps @ 3Ghz load.....like you I failed to get 8x400, I just settled for the 3Ghz.....

 

[chevmaro]

So do you think its failing from heat? Im just wondering why the temps are so high. If speedfan is reporting 15c lower then what it should be then that means I am pushing 70c at 3ghz under load.

 

[Tweakin]

Welcome to the 3.0Ghz club...I think most Q6600's are good for 3.0 and not much else. I could only get mine to a little over 3.0 also. I think everyone just wishes it would do 3.2!

 

[Drsignguy]

Originally posted by: Tweakin
Welcome to the 3.0Ghz club...I think most Q6600's are good for 3.0 and not much else. I could only get mine to a little over 3.0 also. I think everyone just wishes it would do 3.2!

In most cases I think this is correct, but I have to say, I got a much better 2nd chip. My first had a vid of 1.325. It was difficult to get past 3.0. But so far, I got my new chip to 3.2 with ease. Vid is 1.262v and with a voltage setting of 1.33v in bios, my temps are 49c and under with a Tuniq sitting on it.

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[chevmaro]

Im starting to think that the extra 200 mhz is not worth the extra vcore and heat that it will produce. Im running pretty good at 3.0ghz. I guess I will just leave it there.

 

[KIAman]

If you haven't already, mess with your VTT settings. When I got my Q6600 in my IP35-E, I could not get it stable above 3.2 until I upped the VTT settings up 2 notches. I'm not sure what it does exactly but it works well for quads.

 

[SolMiester]

Dont think its temps for me (hardware monitor 50 @ load), I think I need to up some juice somewhere, however a 3ghz dual chip is absolutely fine, a quad 3ghz is even better....maybe I'll start cranking in a yr or 2 when I'm bored......much better things to be doing than farting around for an extra couple hundred megahertz....