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23rd September 2008, 02:41 PM
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I was just wondering, does anybody overclock here? Or if you haven't would you ever consider it?
I have in the past until I started getting into undervolting and energy efficiency. If I was to buy a low-spec computer I would probably overclock it to get the performance without the pricetag.
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23rd September 2008, 03:16 PM
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I have my cpu, ram, and graphics card overclocked but only a little in order to get things running well. 
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23rd September 2008, 04:05 PM
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Nah I got a great running system as it is. So don't really need to. Plus I don't wanna mess with it and screw something up. 
But if I get a 5000+ black edition processor then I probably will give it a go.
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23rd September 2008, 04:08 PM
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I should add that i monitor my system on a regular basis. I check stability, temperature, and voltages often.
I have also added plenty of cooling to allow for the overclock (which is about %12 in total).
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23rd September 2008, 04:09 PM
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I would be to lazy to check all that. lol
I probably shouldn't overclock...
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23rd September 2008, 04:10 PM
| | Community Moderator | | Join Date: Oct 2007, 1,028 posts. Location: Stoke-on-Trent, England Reputation: | |  same here really, though i'm not afraid of screwing things up, I just have more than enough power
The only tweaking I have done is the RAM latencies, from the stock 4,4,4,15 to 4,4,3,9. I wouldn't consider that as overclocking though.
Well, if you run Prime95 or Orthos blend or small FFT's for 24 hours without any failures then your overclock can be considered stable, so you don't need to keep checking that As for temperatures it's good to keep an eye on them, especially when you have a high ambient temperature.
Well, voltages I have my Q6600 running at 1.050v (VID is 1.325v). It drops occasionally to 1.040v thanks to VDROOP
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23rd September 2008, 05:04 PM
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I wrote a thing about stuff you should know about before overclocking - it's stickied in this forum 
I haven't got any of my new system OC'd though, but I still monitor the CPU temp. I used to watch the CPU and system temps from the task tray, but the program I used to do it didn't install properly so I took it off and installed Speedfan instead Just need to get it to run at startup now 
This system (what I have of it so far) is so much faster in every way than my old one so I don't feel the need to yet
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23rd September 2008, 05:14 PM
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I have overclocked my CPU in the past to 3.6GHz, and it was unbelieveably fast, but to be honest it was just overkill, plus I didn't like all the power it was consuming and the CPU voltage of 1.5v, it's a near-deathwish for a 65nm CPU.
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7th October 2008, 06:25 PM
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Here's my screenie.. 
Well, got the Lowyat.net sig at the bottom of the picture coz I print it out from below.. (My own post at local Malaysian forum) Lowyat.NET -> Intel Burn Test
I'm still noob in oc'ing though..
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7th October 2008, 06:50 PM
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I did wonder about it as this board and the graphics cards can be messed with, but it goes as fast as I need for my business apps and (touch wood) does not crash very often! Not sure how brave I am to clock a quad core anyway!
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Fenzo that's pretty cool wallpaper you have there.
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22nd December 2008, 11:38 AM
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As some of you know I recently had problems with my motherboard which forced me to overclock to make it work
So anyway here's my current overclock:-
Q6600 @ 3.0GHz, with a Vcore of 1.24v from the default 2.4GHz
RAM @ 800MHz with timings of 4,4,3,10 2T with voltage of 2.0v from the default 800MHz 4,4,4,15 2T 2.0v
That's about it. I did try to overclock my graphics card but reverted back to defaults as it's not stable even with a slight overclock.
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31st December 2008, 08:41 AM
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I've been at it again
I figured I might as well considering I HAVE to overclock
So here goes....
Q6600 @ 3.2GHz with a voltage of 1.328v after VDROOP. I changed the multiplier to 8x from the default 9x and changed the CPU FSB to 400MHz to give me an FSB of 1600MHz, which works in sync with my RAM with a 1:1 FSB/DRAM ratio
The maximum FSB my motherboard takes for processors is 1333MHz FSB. I've managed to crank it up to 1600MHz FSB with all voltages in the BIOS (apart from the CPU and RAM) at their MINIMUM values
My RAM is the same. Still 800MHz with timings of 4,4,3,10 2T with a voltage of 2.00v. I Can easily lower the tRAS (10) even more but doing my research it is best not to put it too low as it can do more bad than good.
All Prime95 stable
I'm going to have another mess around to see how much more I can get out of the voltage my CPU is currently sitting at. I consider my "safe" threshold to be about 1.35v, so I don't want to push it any further than what it is now.
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31st December 2008, 10:49 AM
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That's some pretty intense OC'ing by the sounds of it mate - minimum voltages and 3.2GHz from a 2.66GHz CPU
That's cool how you did it by changing the FSB, though, it'll make it easier for the RAM being 1:1 won't it?
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31st December 2008, 11:05 AM
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It's a 2.4GHz CPU by default
It's not the best overclock in the world, people have overclocked more-so and with a lower CPU voltage, mainly because they have lower CPU VID's (mine is 1.3250v), but I have limited myself so I can prolong the life of my computer. I've never seen anyone get 1600MHz FSB from minimum voltages on a motherboard that doesn't support it
Yeah apparently when FSB and RAM are in sync, it is better for the RAM and apparently performs better, though the latter part is debatable. Personally i'd say it was more efficient. A 1:1 ratio is what many overclockers try to achieve.
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31st December 2008, 12:54 PM
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Well from 2.4GHz it's even more impressive then I wasn't 100% about the figure but thought I'd go with it anyway
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9th January 2009, 05:44 AM
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thats a preatty good overclock, ive heard lots of people saying they have trouble with stability when it goes past 3Ghz on the Q6600 I would like to try a bit of overclocking, but i dont have a computer to start out on (in case i blow it up which no doubt i will even if for a bit of fun but i would like to overclock my friend's Q9400 for him, i'll probably give it a go on an old computer if i come across a very cheap computer
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9th January 2009, 12:13 PM
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To be honest, it's actually pretty easy to get a Q6600 past 3GHz. Mine runs Prime95 stable for 24hrs at 3GHz on stock voltages, so I don't have to change anything in the BIOS other than the FSB. It's actually stable at even less than stock voltages if I change them. Bearing in mind my Q6600 is one with the highest VID on a Q6600 (1.3250v which is quite rubbish, especially for a G0 stepping. I've seen some that are as low as 1.1125v! I'd love to get my hands on one of those!) and overclocking needs more voltage with higher VID chips, unfortunately for me  . But it still pulls off a very decent overclock at very respectable voltages.
I'm considering purchasing a QX9650 and attempt to get 4.0GHz out of it
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Last edited by Joshuashawharvey; 9th January 2009 at 12:17 PM.
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