I read through the Q6600 sticky, and it was fantastic. That's where I learned essentially everything I know about OC'ing (which is admittedly little). I had OC'ing my Q6600 to 3.0 almost a year ago, but after a few weeks the board just quit on me (Asus P5N32-E SLI Plus) and I got scared off OC'ing. Honestly, I think it was just a crappy bored. So I ended up replacing it with my current board, the EVGA 750i FTW. I've run this set up for a year-ish and now want to OC again.
Ok, so I've pumped it up to 9x333 because I want a pretty basic but fair OC. For this first shot I left all my voltages on auto. My memory timings I manually imputed the default factory timings. I ran Prime95 for 6-7 hours with 0 errors, and at max the cores his 67C. All well and good, but a bit warm, and really, 6 hours is a bit short.
So this is basically my plan. Start dropping the vcore until I can find the lowest vcore that I'll get a good 24 hours of no errors on. This way I can cut down on heat and see what kind of room I have to push things. Once I find a nice ground level vcore, I'll pump up the OC a bit and will most likely raise the vcore along with it for stability. I left my VTT on auto for now, but I was wondering, should I have dropped it as well? If I went by the guide I'd drop 'em both low, and work my way up to a stable OC, while I'm sorta doing it backwards. Is the way I'm doing things viable as well or should I just start over? Like I said, the sticky is fantastic, but I just need to talk it out to properly digest it.
I'm currently running the 9x333 (3.0) at a vcore of 1.25 and I'm an hour into primes with no error so far. I'm kinda surprised it hasn't failed already at this vcore, maybe since I left the VTT at auto instead of dropping it as well it's compensating? The nice thing is, with this vcore my hottest core is 52C under load. Going to let this run and see how long it goes.
For reference:
Q6600 SLACR G0 stepping. VID = 1.2500v. The rest of the system is in my sig.
Ok, so I've pumped it up to 9x333 because I want a pretty basic but fair OC. For this first shot I left all my voltages on auto. My memory timings I manually imputed the default factory timings. I ran Prime95 for 6-7 hours with 0 errors, and at max the cores his 67C. All well and good, but a bit warm, and really, 6 hours is a bit short.
So this is basically my plan. Start dropping the vcore until I can find the lowest vcore that I'll get a good 24 hours of no errors on. This way I can cut down on heat and see what kind of room I have to push things. Once I find a nice ground level vcore, I'll pump up the OC a bit and will most likely raise the vcore along with it for stability. I left my VTT on auto for now, but I was wondering, should I have dropped it as well? If I went by the guide I'd drop 'em both low, and work my way up to a stable OC, while I'm sorta doing it backwards. Is the way I'm doing things viable as well or should I just start over? Like I said, the sticky is fantastic, but I just need to talk it out to properly digest it.
I'm currently running the 9x333 (3.0) at a vcore of 1.25 and I'm an hour into primes with no error so far. I'm kinda surprised it hasn't failed already at this vcore, maybe since I left the VTT at auto instead of dropping it as well it's compensating? The nice thing is, with this vcore my hottest core is 52C under load. Going to let this run and see how long it goes.
For reference:
Q6600 SLACR G0 stepping. VID = 1.2500v. The rest of the system is in my sig.
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