help overclocking Q6600 GO
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mayhem
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need more info.
First what Motherbord you running.
What ram are you running.
What Sort of cooling you running . Heat sink and fan or water cooling. this will give us a batter idear on how to proceed.
All so the Q6600 go has been over clocked by many users on here and much of what you are after has all ready been talked about. You can use the search feature above to look for most of you answers.
How ever a q6600 is optimal at 3.6 ghz at 3.8 ghz its fast but youll not see any speed difference unless its for bench testing. I think on Air cooling people mange to get around 3.2 Ghz with out heating problems.
You need to find you ram timings for you ram and input these direcly into the bios such as 5 5 5 15 and then set you voltage of your ram. If you do not know you ram timings you can download CPUID from here -> http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php and this will tell you what they should be set to.
Allso this gives you info on you CPU speed and motherbord. You can then take screen shots of this program and we can help you out.
Allso a nother good tool is HW Moniter from there site here -> http://www.cpuid.com/hwmonitor.php
This will help you keep an eye on the temps.
here is a over clock on a 6600 Go with water cooling
this is a 4.* Ghz over clock on water cooling. you can see the ammount the V-Core was raised to as well and the ram speed.
First what Motherbord you running.
What ram are you running.
What Sort of cooling you running . Heat sink and fan or water cooling. this will give us a batter idear on how to proceed.
All so the Q6600 go has been over clocked by many users on here and much of what you are after has all ready been talked about. You can use the search feature above to look for most of you answers.
How ever a q6600 is optimal at 3.6 ghz at 3.8 ghz its fast but youll not see any speed difference unless its for bench testing. I think on Air cooling people mange to get around 3.2 Ghz with out heating problems.
You need to find you ram timings for you ram and input these direcly into the bios such as 5 5 5 15 and then set you voltage of your ram. If you do not know you ram timings you can download CPUID from here -> http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php and this will tell you what they should be set to.
Allso this gives you info on you CPU speed and motherbord. You can then take screen shots of this program and we can help you out.
Allso a nother good tool is HW Moniter from there site here -> http://www.cpuid.com/hwmonitor.php
This will help you keep an eye on the temps.
here is a over clock on a 6600 Go with water cooling
this is a 4.* Ghz over clock on water cooling. you can see the ammount the V-Core was raised to as well and the ram speed.
mighty_moll
New member
If you have ample air cooling and are just looking for a quick overclock as a tester (nothing sersious) - i'll post my BIOS settings in a sec.
Overclock Tuner: Manual
CPU Ratio: 9
FSB Strap to Northbridge: 333
FSB Freq: 333
PCIE Freq: 100
DRAM Freq: DDR3-1066
DRAM Command Rate: 2N
DRAM Timing: Manual - 8-8-8-27
DRAM Voltage: 1.9v
Everything else is set to auto. As i said this is just a simple overclock to about 3 Ghz with ample air cooling. I have a large fan on the front of the case (180mm i think) drawing air in. An 80 mm on the side drawing air in and 2 80mm on the back of the case exhausting to get the airflow going. This said - i fitted an XFX 4890 and the case temp rose about 5 degrees.
At idle all 4 cores sit at about 38 degrees and under load they get to about 58 degrees depending on the ambient air temperature. Along with the GPU under heavey load the CPU can reach the 60 degrees. I wouldnt want to go any further without water cooling - but your setup could easily give different results.
Oh yeah - to get anything more then the 1066 from the DDR3 i think you are going to need a 400Hz FSB but you will have to play with this as i havent tried. My Mobo will only support up to 1333 overclocked being the ASUS PK5C.
Overclock Tuner: Manual
CPU Ratio: 9
FSB Strap to Northbridge: 333
FSB Freq: 333
PCIE Freq: 100
DRAM Freq: DDR3-1066
DRAM Command Rate: 2N
DRAM Timing: Manual - 8-8-8-27
DRAM Voltage: 1.9v
Everything else is set to auto. As i said this is just a simple overclock to about 3 Ghz with ample air cooling. I have a large fan on the front of the case (180mm i think) drawing air in. An 80 mm on the side drawing air in and 2 80mm on the back of the case exhausting to get the airflow going. This said - i fitted an XFX 4890 and the case temp rose about 5 degrees.
At idle all 4 cores sit at about 38 degrees and under load they get to about 58 degrees depending on the ambient air temperature. Along with the GPU under heavey load the CPU can reach the 60 degrees. I wouldnt want to go any further without water cooling - but your setup could easily give different results.
Oh yeah - to get anything more then the 1066 from the DDR3 i think you are going to need a 400Hz FSB but you will have to play with this as i havent tried. My Mobo will only support up to 1333 overclocked being the ASUS PK5C.
rapidman17
New member
right, let me give my two cents 
firstly the CM sphere is not a great cooler, but will allow a medium overclock while keeping temps to accpetable levels.... x-bit labs at 3.15ghz got temps of around 80 (http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/coolers/display/coolermaster-sphere_7.html#sect0) which is pretty high, so it would be wise to aim for around 3.0ghz if running 24/7.....
p5e3 premium is a rock solid board... for a basic overclock keep all voltages on auto, turn up the fsb to 335, and ram dividers of 4:5... You should be able to locate all the settings in the bios, you can use the manual to find the dif options...
boot into windows and post up screenies of cpu-z, coretemp and speedfan like mayhem has done...
we can work on getting the voltages right after, a 3.0ghz clock on auto shouldnt be a problem...
firstly the CM sphere is not a great cooler, but will allow a medium overclock while keeping temps to accpetable levels.... x-bit labs at 3.15ghz got temps of around 80 (http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/coolers/display/coolermaster-sphere_7.html#sect0) which is pretty high, so it would be wise to aim for around 3.0ghz if running 24/7.....
p5e3 premium is a rock solid board... for a basic overclock keep all voltages on auto, turn up the fsb to 335, and ram dividers of 4:5... You should be able to locate all the settings in the bios, you can use the manual to find the dif options...
boot into windows and post up screenies of cpu-z, coretemp and speedfan like mayhem has done...
we can work on getting the voltages right after, a 3.0ghz clock on auto shouldnt be a problem...
