Q6600 Overclock

EyesLikeSkies · **Q6600 Overclock -** 05-26-2012, 19:04 | posts: 112 | Location: United States

I read the sticky overclocking guide and I still have a few questions on finishing up my overclock. Anyone have any luck getting over 3.0 GHz on air cooling? (FSB 333 x 9)? I was hoping for somewhere in the 3.2-3.5 mark.

Fender178 · 05-27-2012, 05:14 | posts: 409 | Location: Pennsylvania

I have heard people getting 3.2ghz out of the Q6600. I also heard people getting high as 4.0ghz on air cooling. But mind you this you may need to change the voltage settings of your Q6600 if you are planning on going beyond 3.0ghz. On my Q6600 Im running it at 3.0ghz on stock voltages. Are you running your Q6600 on stock voltages @3.0Ghz?
here is a thread that might be interesting to you.
http://community.futuremark.com/foru...00-4ghz-on-Air

Cyberdyne · 05-27-2012, 05:39 | posts: 1,270 | Location: USA, Pennsylvania

Getting over 3GHZ is going to require the version with G0 stepping, you can check in CPU-Z.

EyesLikeSkies · 05-27-2012, 06:16 | posts: 112 | Location: United States

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fender178

I have heard people getting 3.2ghz out of the Q6600. I also heard people getting high as 4.0ghz on air cooling. But mind you this you may need to change the voltage settings of your Q6600 if you are planning on going beyond 3.0ghz. On my Q6600 Im running it at 3.0ghz on stock voltages. Are you running your Q6600 on stock voltages @3.0Ghz?
here is a thread that might be interesting to you.
http://community.futuremark.com/foru...00-4ghz-on-Air

Yes I'm running at stock voltages at 3.0 GHz. I tried upping it a bit to 3.2 with 355x9 FSB seeing as multiplier is locked, but it failed burn test on first pass on high settings. Any ideas on that one?

MAD-OGRE · 05-27-2012, 13:25 | posts: 2,839 | Location: Alabama

I ran mine @ 3.6 on air for many years, had to drop the multiplier @ 8 , even now its semi retired I run it @ 3.2.

Ji1986 · 05-28-2012, 02:03 | posts: 820 | Location: Australia

I had mine running at 3.4 for 2 years.

What is your vcore at?
what is your mem frequency at?

kilema · 05-28-2012, 13:43 | posts: 224 | Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

This is what I have for 3 years now
1.5 years on ThermalRight Ultima 90i and then the next 1.5 on water

dune2 · 05-29-2012, 16:02 | posts: 3,376 | Location: Old Europe

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cyberdyne

Getting over 3GHZ is going to require the version with G0 stepping, you can check in CPU-Z.

+1 The G0 stepping was way better than the previous B stepping. I used to run my Q6600 @ 3.6GHz without any problem.

EpicLoss · 05-29-2012, 18:04 | posts: 825 | Location: Midlands/UK

mine is a q6600 g0 stepping 'slacr' batch. this thing will hit 4.0ghz but not fully stable on air.

ran it at 3.6ghz 1.45v for years now it needs 1.4v for 3.2ghz

make sure your ram is at about the next step down form max speed i.e for 800mhz ram set it to 667mhz then as you oc the ram speed will rise with it (unless you can unlink the ram like on some nforce boards) ram would rise to around 754mhz and difference between that and 800 in real world tasks is too small to think about but remember it can take quite a big voltage jump from the stock 1.2875v - 1.300v to get past 3.0ghz as a rule stay under 1.5v MAX

good luck

Geckx · 06-02-2012, 11:57 | posts: 7 | Location: Belgium

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cyberdyne

Getting over 3GHZ is going to require the version with G0 stepping, you can check in CPU-Z.

Not necessarily. Although G0 was indeed better and had more % of higher oc's, I've seen some golden B3's as well

@TS: make sure your RAM isn't the limiting factor here. If it's rated 667mhz you cannot go higher than 333FSB. If it's rated 800mhz - 400FSB, rated 1066mhz-533FSB... Unless your RAM can OC like hell too, but that is something you need to determine before overcloking your cpu to the max.
Just set multiplier to lowest and try to boot at higher fsb speeds to find max.