zachig
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 Posted: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:57:08 Post Subject: |
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Your overclock really depends on the cooler you have and the VID of your Q6600.
You can easily find out the VID (stock voltage) of your Q6600 by using CoreTemp.
My Q6600 is a G0 but with a lame VID of 1.325 (I think it's the worst VID for a Q6600).
Most new Q6600s come with a VID of 1.325. So, if yours has a VID of 1.325 like mine, I don't think you can get an overclock of more than 3.4GHz.
I personally have a Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P motherboard and I could easily overlock my Q6600 to 3.2GHz (800x4) but it was VERY VERY hard to get it stable at 3.4GHz and I needed to bump up the Vcore to something like 1.5V (!!!).
So, first of all, get a decent Air Cooler or even better, go with Water-Cooling.
Then, you should (super) easily get an overclock of 3.2GHz. Afterwards, it's up to your Q6600 VID, Cooling Setup and PATIENCE (  ) to try and get an higher overclock of 3.4GHz or even 3.6GHz.
GOOD LUCK and keep us updated...  |
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