q6600 overclocking help !!!!!!!!plzzzzzzzzzzz

[kayawish24]

does anyone has experience that how shall i overclock my q6600 to 3.4ghz or 3.5ghz stable on asus p5n-t board??????does any one has experience on q6600 and asus p5n-t boards?please tell me exactly that what FSB and voltages i shall use in my ASUS p5n-t deluxe mobo so i shall overclock my q6600 G0 to 3.4 or 3.5 Ghz on air cooling!!! my specs are:-

q6600 overclocked @ 3GHz 1.256V (temps 35C idle and about 45C load)
cpu fan:- cnps9700
mobo:- asus p5n-t deluxe (bios version:- 1303)
2 x XFX 8800 gtx overclocked @ 630/1000
4 GB OCZ DDR2 SLI Ram @ 800 2.15V
1 x DVD RW
1 x floppy drive
1 x 320 GB Sata western digital hard disk
corsair TX-850 PSU

 

[Gillbot]

not all Q66's can reach 3.4GHz+

Your best bet is ti read the stickies and start tweaking then testing.

 

[roid450]

Well I'll tell you the FSB you need on a 9X multi: 1512 for 3.401 ghz

Not all Q6600s are the same also, mine needs unusually high Vcore to reach these speeds and stay stable, it used 1.4875 on bios and comes out to 1.46 in CPUZ and Everest, about 1.45 under testing load.

But do as Gillbot said, the stickie is where I learrned to OC my CPU and where I always went for help.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Originally posted by: roid450
Well I'll tell you the FSB you need on a 9X multi: 1512 for 3.401 ghz

Not all Q6600s are the same also, mine needs unusually high Vcore to reach these speeds and stay stable, it used 1.4875 on bios and comes out to 1.46 in CPUZ and Everest, about 1.45 under testing load.

But do as Gillbot said, the stickie is where I learrned to OC my CPU and where I always went for help.

Does the P5N work with Penryn/Yorkfield quads?

 

[roid450]

I knwo nothing of Asus Mobos. You prolly figured it out by now tho. read around here. plenty of info.

 

[kayawish24]

i overclocked my q6600 to 3.4ghz but i did not do any thing in vcore all are in auto in my bios then i ran OCCT for 2 hours on large data set and high piority !!! my cpu temps were maximum 55C even all 4 cores were less then 60C.my idle temps are (wait let me see....)ok!cpu temp is 35C and cores 43 43 38 39C..these all are on overclockes settings to 3.4ghz with vcore set to auto.......but my asus probe says that my vcore is at(wait let me see again)...ok! 1.30V..my mobo tem is 39C....i think i shall run prim95 all night long and still no errors i will keep vcore ,NB , SB volts all on auto just like it is now and cpu overclocked to 3.4Ghz

 

[MTDEW]

Best i can do to help if youre trying to overclock on a P5N-T deluxe.
http://vip.asus.com/forum/topi...Deluxe&SLanguage=en-us
I had that mobo, and didnt care for it at all, especially for the price i paid.
But rather than bash the board, I'll just say you might as well stick with getting info from others who have the board in the forum i linked above, since its got some quarks.

edit: kayawish24
I assume thats your post on top over there, so you're in the right place.
Good luck with the board, i hope yours does better than mine did. :thumbsup:

 

[kayawish24]

@ MTDEW

can you tell that if i put vcore to auto in bios and then overclock the q6600 to 3.4ghz so will it harm my cpu or mobo???????curently my vcore is on auto

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Originally posted by: kayawish24
@ MTDEW

can you tell that if i put vcore to auto in bios and then overclock the q6600 to 3.4ghz so will it harm my cpu or mobo???????curently my vcore is on auto

Look. I don't know about the P5N-T per se, but it is a 780i motherboard, and I know ASUS BIOS for the nVidia chipsets. Without those of us with firsthand experience, you could set everything to stock, go into BIOS after stock settings are effective, and drill down to BIOS monitor. Write down the voltage reading for your "Auto" setting. Then, go back to the menu of voltage settings and change VCORE to that value. Then, set FSB/memory configuration to "unlinked" or "unsynchronized." FSB should initially be 1066, and RAM [DDR] should be 533. Increase the FSB to 1334 and the RAM to 667. If it won't boot, our you boot up to Windows and run PRIME95 multi-core "blend-test," and it fails -- increase the VCORE a couple notches, and go again.

However, many here would probably tell you that you need to set VCORE to about 1.30 to 1.32V to get it stable for 3Ghz, 1334 FSB and 667 RAM. -- also make sure before you start that RAM is volted to the upper range of warranty voltage. If the RAM is supposed to run on voltages <= 2.1V, set it to 2.075V -- and/or then reboot to BIOS and check BIOS monitor to see what actual voltage is, then adjust as desired. Leave memory latencies to stock values.

From there, increase FSB by 20 and RAM by 10, reboot to Windows, run PRIME95 -- make a note of how long it takes to fail. If necessary, push VCORE up another notch. If system crashes when it fails, push VCORE up by two notches. When you get close to FSB = 1600 and DDR = 800, you will need to adjust CPU_VTT voltage as high as 1.4V.

You may not get to CPU = 400 Mhz x 9 = 3.6 Ghz. More likely, you'll get it only as far as 367 to 378 Mhz x 9 = 3.3 to 3.4 Ghz. That is, your FSB setting will be between 1468 and 1512, and your corresponding DDR speed between 734 and 756.

Play cautious, exercise patience, and find the limits as above through trial and error.

 

[kayawish24]

but my ram is ddr2 800 so why shall i put 667 in bios??????????plz explain

 

[Flipped Gazelle]

Originally posted by: kayawish24

but my ram is ddr2 800 so why shall i put 667 in bios??????????plz explain

Because, as you increase the FSB, you also increase the memory speed, and you don't want to overclock you RAM yet.

Link to Core 2 overclocking guide: http://forums.anandtech.com/me...=2057083&enterthread=y