Monday, February 4, 2008

Overclocking my Q6600

I finally got around to overclocking my Q6600 2.4ghz this past week. After much patience and many hours of Prime95 testing, I seem to have what I believe to be a stable overclock of 3.2ghz on air cooling (non-stock heatsink/fan).

For reference, this is my setup:
abit IP35 Pro
Q6600 2.4ghz (G0) - running @ 3.2ghz
EVGA 8800 GT SC
OCZ Reaper HPC DDR2 6400 (2x1gb)
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro
Antec P180 Case (4x120mm fans @ medium speed)
nSpire 650w PSU

Custom BIOS volts/settings:
CPU Bus 356mhz
CPU core - 1.30v
DDR2 - 2.175v
RAM timings set manually to 4-4-4-15-42-2T
RAM ratio 1:1
everything else Auto/default

Idle temps for the 4 cores respectively: 42 42 36 36
Load temps for the 4 cores respectively: 62 62 56 56

* Temp readings taken using Core Temp 0.96.1
I also did temp testing with SpeedFan and abit's uGuru app, but they proved inconsistent. Core Temp may be a hair conservative, but it's far more accurate than the others.

* Voltage readings taken using abit's uGuru app (which should match your BIOS readings). The only other app that came close to uGuru consistency was CPU-Z.

* Load testing was done using Prime 95 v25.5 (Multi-Core version) over periods of up to 8 hours doing first Torture testing and later Blend testing.

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