Intel Q6600 On a P5KC with first DDR3 12800 little help?

Methious · Rated PG-13 Joined: 14 Apr 2008 Posts: 42

Well it's been 10 years with an AMD on the desk and I'm a little lost riding an Intel so I thought I'd throw this out there for a little help.

Here's the setup:

Asus P5KC (ddr2/ddr3 1333)
Q6600 G0 stepping
Mushkin XP3 DDR3 12800 7-7-6-18 1.8-1.9v
Swiftech Water Cooled Triple Rad
Massive air flow in a ThermalTake Armor case 250 mm side fan

I'm a little fuzzy about Linked/Unlinked memory and clocking the DDR3 up from the stock 1333 the board runs and getting the Mushkin 12800 up to 1600.

Of course I'd like to get the CPU back up to 3 - 3.2 in the process.

Any tips?

sbrehm72255 · Posted: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:02:29 Post Subject:

There aren't any options for linked/unlinked memory on Intel chipsets, all memory speeds are set via the dividers.

It shouldn't be to hard for you to get used to though, start at 1:1 and work your way up from there after you get your CPU stable.

Methious · Rated PG-13 Joined: 14 Apr 2008 Posts: 42

Yea after I posted it took about ten minutes to figure out where what I was thinking and reality met.

nVidia runs linked/unlinked, P35 Intel uses dividers. Dividers I can handle (probably).

Pre-Rebuild jitters Yikes

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:06:28 Post Subject:

What BIOS do you have? I have that board and found that the 0903 BIOS is the friendliest to overclocking. Modulok has it too, and he likes the latest BIOS for 1333MHz memory operation... But I want 1600MHz+.

Like sbrehm said, just look into the dividers. With a 1066MHz FSB CPU, I think you may need to overclock some just to get to 1333MHz on the memory

Methious · Rated PG-13 Joined: 14 Apr 2008 Posts: 42

Right now I'm running the P5K-E, the P5KC will be in on Friday.

Right now it's 0903 I believe, I'll have to check after I get off the laptop.

Had it up to 3.6 with the ddr2 800 OCZ Reaper running at 1068 stable. I don't run at that though, generally I run at 3.2 memory at 900.

Gotta love Asus OC profile, click click back to 3.6.

sbrehm72255 · Posted: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:38:51 Post Subject:

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:02:19 Post Subject:

Yup, there are two profiles available on the P5KC BIOS.

Methious · Rated PG-13 Joined: 14 Apr 2008 Posts: 42

They save some time when you get that dreaded OC failed notice and bios resets.

I'm running the stocks and OCs on the 8800gt right now before going to an after market GFXChilla GPU cooler. Got the stock fans and an upgraded set of fans for the GFXChilla.

Lapped the Chilla but I don't know if it's going to be worth the time because I have the XFX 8800GT Alpha Dog with the better cooling.
Loaded stock right now it's running 55c.

Be a bummer if I switch out and end up getting crud temps and have to switch back.

sbrehm72255 · Posted: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:46:27 Post Subject:

You need to switch to water cooling the card if you want nice cool temps, my 8800GT at max OC load runs about 35c or so depending on room temp, but I'm only running it on a single 120 radiator also.

Methious · Rated PG-13 Joined: 14 Apr 2008 Posts: 42

Might eventually I got every thing but a Water Block. Right now though the initial results are in on the GFXChilla.

With the stock fan set to 100% (noisy as heck) the stock cooler keeps it down to 55C after 30 minutes of stress using ATI Tool to scan for artifacts and keep temps. Same for LightsMark2007 and 3dmarks2006

The GFXChilla kept it down to the same 55C in all the same tests with the stock fans. But it did it while running whisper quiet.

Then the XfX8800GT I have has the larger fan and increased air flow, best XFX put on the 8800gt. So that's actually pretty good considering it did it silently.

I have a feeling that the 80mm fans Coolink SWiF 802 model might make a little more noise. Rated at 11-19dB/A should be tolerable.

I checked and it didn't do any thing for the 715/980 wall I hit clocking it so that's gotta be a voltage, or luck of the pick thing. I did hit 432 in Lightsmark, up from origional 401.