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Hi,
just an update after a lot of faffing about with a Q6600 with a vid of 1.352v I ditched it in favour of a Q6600 with a vid of 1.2625v the original Q6600 was from L750B102 week batch it really was a lazy chip no matter what voltage you put through it and I managed to get hold of a L732A920 week batch chip with a vid of 1.2625v and see for yourself this little beauty really does fly!!!

my idle temps are 36 deg whilst benching it gets to 60-62deg

I have performed a pencil mod trick on my P5KC and again after a lot of messing around I managed to minimise the Vdroop to miniscule proportions touch wood everything seems to be performing as it should but I was wondering what sort of vcore would be deemed excessive for the Q6600 if I was to try to go higher??

http://s473.photobucket.com/albums/rr95/pistyll_2008/

this beast is stable in prime and occt with very little tweaking of the vcore just had to crank up the fsb and relax the timings on my ocz memory

1.45v should be about the max on high end air cooling, but with your temps I don't think you'll be able to push that much vcore.

3.6GHz is a nice OC for that chip though. That's about the average max for the Q6600
I've seen some hit a lot higher, but the are an exception to the rule

You should see if it can pass "Intel Burn test"
link: http://downloads.guru3d.com/IntelBurnTe ... -2047.html

Hi,
just an update after a lot of faffing about with a Q6600 with a vid of 1.352v I ditched it in favour of a Q6600 with a vid of 1.2625v the original Q6600 was from L750B102 week batch it really was a lazy chip no matter what voltage you put through it and I managed to get hold of a L732A920 week batch chip with a vid of 1.2625v and see for yourself this little beauty really does fly!!!

my idle temps are 36 deg whilst benching it gets to 60-62deg these temps suggest as you pointed out that any increase in overclock will be limited by spirralling temps and I would like to keep this cpu a while longer yet!!!! lol

http://s473.photobucket.com/albums/rr95/pistyll_2008/

it is stable playing crysis for several hours (which really does push any system to the edge) p95 stable after 3 hours i will post soon I relaxed the timings because the board would not post at tighter timings I am still experimenting but would welcome any positive input as to tweaking the bios settings to either (A) run at 4-4-4-12 2t timings or (B) full speed at 5-5-5-15 2t timings which are the timings printed on the memory heatspreader. I would like to be able to run my memory at staed values but at the moment I have had to relax the timings to 5-5-5-15 2t @ 2.1v and mem is running at 800Mhz not 1066 as stated but if I try to increase the mem spped I am unable to post have you any suggestions as to how I can run my memory faster or at least at its stated speed??

Many Thanks

Hello, I was wondering if you can post all the settings that you changed in your BIOS to achieve the 3.6 GHz of speed, as I am trying to push my Q6600 G0 to 3.6, but can only get to 3.2 stable for 12 hours in Prime 95. I tried upping the CPU Voltage to 5.0, but have not had any avail.

badboyzasr wrote:Hello, I was wondering if you can post all the settings that you changed in your BIOS to achieve the 3.6 GHz of speed, as I am trying to push my Q6600 G0 to 3.6, but can only get to 3.2 stable for 12 hours in Prime 95. I tried upping the CPU Voltage to 5.0, but have not had any avail.

Are you saying you upped the core voltage to 5.0v?! Hope you didn't!

Have you tried lower the DRAM multiplier, so they RAM are close to rated speed?
Did you try adding a little bit of voltage to NB, SB, FSB, etc? You need to add voltage to these areas, not just the core.