Try increasing your Vcore....I'm able to run at Vcore at 1.38V with FSB at 450mhz and Multiplier at X8. Running stable.

Also check if your mobo bios supports tweaking of the GTL and cpu VTT voltages as thats sometimes necessary to gain further stability for quaddies.

I never said that all Q6600 could run at 3.6Ghz at my voltage, I'm just sharing my setting. I'm just giving suggestions on how he could increase his OC...

if your going to be running at a lower kinda ghz like in the range of 3Ghz, try dropping your multi from X9 to X8, there is a tangible increase in performance. of course your fsb will be higher which is a good thing...

Its good to see ppl still actively OC'ing their Q6600...

Lucky for you bro...proc's sometimes die sooner rather than later. Heat would normally help speed up the degradation process.

My Q6600 needs 1.36V to stable at 3.6ghz...

Anyone here abt to get their Q6600 up to 4Ghz? how many volts do you need to pump into your CPU to get it stable?

Ops..your mobo died pretty quickly....does it have GTL control settings in the bios?


iBenQ, are u running on 4Ghz regularly? 1.6V? i reckon that would shorten the lifespan of the proc pretty quickly...

The thing the 2 factors that kills procs the quickest are high voltages to the CPU Core and constantly high core temps. Of course having high Core V's also contribute to higher temps. I'm running my quaddie at 3.6Ghz on a daily basis with 1.36-1.37V and the temps are around 52C with all 4 cores running at 100%. Using water cooling by the way.

I've tried 4Ghz but had to use around 1.5-1.6 V's but didnt run at that speed for long.

This post has been edited by BurgerRI: May 24 2009, 11:59 AM

What water block are you using for your proc? seems a bit high for a WC setup.

What stepping is your proc? G0?