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Post Date: 2008-06-27
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    Posted: 27 Jun 2008 at 2:08am

So since I got all my new cooling I've been digging back into the BIOS settings to see what I could squeeze out of this beast. My first attempts were based on Keep It Simple Stupid, or the KISS rule. I just slowly pushed up my FSB until i couldnt get a stable PCMark, this landed me a little better benchmarks, but I wasnt impressed.

I pretty much maxed out at 3555, no temperature problems, I just couldnt get stable over 395 FSB, granted: I did not go over 1.5 vcore. The results were decent but the margin wasnt enough for me. I read a little about the 8x multi concept with the q6600 and how good it was for your RAM... never paid too much attention to it. I read enough comments that the difference wasnt substantial to believe it. Lucky for me, I am unable to leave well enough alone, so I tried it anyway. I'll let the results speak for themselves.
 
Basically I ended up drastically increasing my RAMs speed, lowering the latency, and lowering the power draw of everything.
Idle temps are:
35 35 31 31
 
please note that its 2 am as i write this, forgive any obvious mistakes or important info left out... the red text in this first pic should be "440"
 
 
 


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Nice job. Here's where I currently stand on my own Q6600.



About 10min in on a Prime test, temps rises quickly.
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Nice guys. I haven't touched mine after finding 100% stable settings for 3.15Ghz. Going faster doesn't seem to do anything for game performance, so I leave well enough alone at this point. Besides, I'm a giant chicken when it comes to high temps.Tongue

Edited by Tyler Lowe - 27 Jun 2008 at 4:40am
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Great speeds with those temps! I'm with Tyler tho. High temps skeer me... I'm too chicken to do my own overclocking hehehe. Embarrassed
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nice duke, what is youre Vcore / average PCMark?
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new thing that i was troubleshooting is that regaurdless off all the passed stress tests, i noticed that extended idle times would cause the computer to freeze up, sound loop and all... i bumped the voltage up to .48 and it seems to have fixed the problem.
i still cant believe im seeing 62C load temps with this set up, i havent yet gone over 1.5 to try and get that 400x9 but im really tempted to
 
i just have to keep repeating "not worth it" lol
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Running 1.54V. I don't have PCmark.
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Whats your avg PCmark?
               
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if youre asking me, look at the pictures in the first postTongue
 
if your asking duke, the poor man said he doesnt have itCry
 
if your asking tyler, i second that questionCool
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