My noob OC with Q6600

Proc: Intel Q6600 G0 with Tuniq Tower 120
Mobo: Abit IP35-E (bios 18)
Ram: Crucial Ballistix Tracer 2x1GB



Never OC-ed this proc before cos my mobo bios didnt support it. Just flashed to bios 18 and it works very well . Vdroop is quite bad though. I have to set 1.42V in the bios to compensate for vdrop+vdroop on full load. Is it bad for the proc in the long run? Gonna try improving memory timings next, although i dont think my memory can do much better

This post has been edited by joe_star: Jan 29 2010, 08:35 AM

1.42v is good as long as you cool it sufficiently.

My system need to supply 1.45V to overclock to 3.6GHz.

1.45v for 3.6 is still okay ler. My old q6600 at 1.44 was 3.4ghz max. For 3.6 during my early testing time, needed 1.56 vcore to get there.

Do you know how to tweak RAM a bit?

I understand the timing 5-5-5-15 for my Crucial Tracer 1066MHz.

I wanna tweak a bit the tRFC value which I didn't fully understand how to tweak that. I've googled for that but got very little info. Now info to calculate the optimal value for it.



I wanna run at DDR800 so the optimal setting for it is 4-4-4-12

In my case its 52 clock as in this screenshot. The value stays 52 even I set to 800MHz or 1066MHz

I've tried 34 clock. It runs, but after 20 minute my PC crashed.

Any explaination? Why the value so big? If i reduce it, my RAM faster or improve stability or what?

This post has been edited by jeopardise: Feb 1 2010, 10:02 PM

Iinm, the first 4 values make the biggest impact on performance. The others are used to get that little bit extra out of your ram. There lots of settings to play with. Try downloading Memset n exploring abit.

been using Q6600 for the last 3 years and still kicking .
actually started showing degrading T_T
prime not stable but gaming still stable .
so i just leave mine at 3.6ghz .
too lazy to bump more vCore .
and too sad to see my OC goes lower .


will move on to i7 next project ^^,

try to use Linx or IBT bro, that would be much better in stressing the proc and test its stability. OCCT are meant for whole system stability iinm

LOL

try adding some vcore to see if its stable again or not, it might be your rams degrading too

it should be 24 right?52 quite a bit number
try using soft memset to change it

damn envious seeing Q6600s touching 3.6

max im getting prime stable is 385*9....390*9 and its not prime stable but gaming and other usage no issues...

wanna get 400*9 to get 3.6 and 1:1 with muh rams...but cant dunno why...n dunno wat to do

vcore already at 1.45

som mobo, there hav a fsb loophole....
where no matter wat u do, the fsb wont stable @ dat certain range.....

try something like 450*8

450*8 would bring my rams up to 900mhz right?

dont think id want that though....them corsair gaming rams arent really OC friendly if i remember correctly...

This post has been edited by mADmAN: Feb 24 2010, 07:08 PM

even value ddr800 can do 900.
just loosen the timing, pump more voltage.