Poor Q6600 OC's

[airhendrix13]

So I've been pretty disappointed with the OC of my Q6600. I understand my mobo (in sig) may not be the best OCing mobo, and that the Q6600 is a B3 revision, but I still think I should be able to pull off 3.0GHz to 3.2GHz.

Could it have something to do with the lack of power from my old PSU? It was a Antec 430w TruePower2.0, and now I have an HX620.

I have not trying OCing with my new PSU, but somehow I feel like 430w was still enough to allow me to OC higher.

And yes, I have read the stickied OCing guide.

Thanks,

Ryan

 

[ashishmishra]

Unfortunately the whole nforce 6xx series is very poor with quad core overclocking. The first mother-board I tried with my G0 q6600 was a gigabyte 650i SLI, the best I could get was 2.8 Ghz, I quickly junked it for a Gigabyte P35 DS3L 2.0 which was a snap to overclock, until 350FSB and then even it ran out of steam (It would boot at 400 FSB but could never get it prime stable above 350FSB). The most effortless boards for quad overclocking would be the newer P45/X38/X48 based boards.

 

[ShadowFlareX]

I didn't have problems overclocking Q6600 B3 on my Abit IN9 32X MAX (680i), was able to get 3.2GHz. Probably I could get more if it wasn't for the 32C / 93F room temperature, and I settled at 3GHz to have safer temps. The one problem I had was running the RAM at 900MHz+, above that I'd get NvRAID warnings from the system tray.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Originally posted by: airhendrix13


Could it have something to do with the lack of power from my old PSU? It was a Antec 430w TruePower2.0, and now I have an HX620.



Ryan

probably not

 

[airhendrix13]

Thanks for the help guys. I have to say I am rather disappointed with the quad core OCing. My Pentium 4 got from 2.8GHz to 3.6GHz without much trouble.

Just to clarify that it is my CPU, when my OC is too high, Windows will just freeze, right?

 

[KBTuning]

my system starts crashing and all at 3.0GHz and ive got a 780i with a Q6600 G0 chip... bumped up the voltages a bit and all it did was get INSANELY hot... ive got the Nvidia/Zalman cooler giant 110mm beast and it was still showing 70* on core 0 and 1 but mid-low 60's on core 2 and 3

 

[Markfw]

get a cheap good oc;ing board, like the gigabyte DS3L for under $100, and sell your 680i board, and your problems will go away. Or live with 2.8

IMO

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Originally posted by: Markfw900
get a cheap good oc;ing board, like the gigabyte DS3L for under $100, and sell your 680i board, and your problems will go away. Or live with 2.8

IMO

+1

 

[mooseracing]

Originally posted by: airhendrix13
Thanks for the help guys. I have to say I am rather disappointed with the quad core OCing. My Pentium 4 got from 2.8GHz to 3.6GHz without much trouble.

Why be disappointed if you got more than 100mhz?

Be happy it overclocks, lets look back before 2000.

 

[spdfreak]

My 6600 OC's to 3GHz easily on my MSI 650i sli board. I just set the fsb to 333 and that was it. I think your problem is the MB and whatever bios they are using.

 

[airhendrix13]

Originally posted by: mooseracing

Originally posted by: airhendrix13
Thanks for the help guys. I have to say I am rather disappointed with the quad core OCing. My Pentium 4 got from 2.8GHz to 3.6GHz without much trouble.

Why be disappointed if you got more than 100mhz?

Be happy it overclocks, lets look back before 2000.

It's 2008 though! :b

I'm running a pretty recent version of the BIOS (updated 3 months ago). I don't know if it would be worth buying a new mobo for a few hundred more MHz though.