MAX Ghz for Core 2 Quad Q6600?

[Matoo69]

I cannot overclock my g0 q6600 to 3ghz ahh🙁

 

[agamenonam]

I cannot overclock my g0 q6600 to 3ghz ahh🙁

- Dear all, i´m here on my work reading your suffering with this complex and wonderful world of overclocking.... After a 6 months of try, and failure, i finally discorver a fine tune of overclocking on my q6600 2.66ghz.

I´m using these configurations, on a gigabyte motherboard 1200+ ga-ep43-ds3l.

multiplier: 8x
fsb: 419
Vcore: 1.3750
max vcore: 1.4000

dram clock: XXXD = 400mhz
dram vcore: [auto]

Total CPU frequnecy: 3356mhz

If you try to overclock, check the ram clock too, cause, my overclocks fails cause, i never check this tiny detail, and my windows crash, or the boot enters on a loop. When i check the ram clock, to work on the stable frequency, the crashes is no more.

By the way, this configuration is for this motherboard, and could no be able to work on every setup. but i won 700mhz of clock, and a stable cpu to play on 100% without a crash, and no BSOD of windows.

testing a stress on CPU-Z, my single core bench goes from 907 points to 1152 points, and 2202 to 3102 on 4 cores bench.

on games, i saw a little improve of FPS on mortal kombat 9 from 24fps to 60fps stable, even on scenarios like the acid pool, or the bridge of doom. In stock clock, is common i play on 60fps but on slow-mo. and after this OC, this is rare.

on civilization V, when it works, the fps is above 60fps, even on late game.

On CoD Infinity warfare, the slow-mo and fps drop below 24fps is rare, even on stages of lots of NPC.

But nothing is perfect, and even not everything are only flowers. On fallout 4, the performance still craps. in some stages the fps dropping below 14fps. even with a gtx 950 OC.

AND THE MOST IMPORTANT, i´m using a cooler master air flow heatsink, and on 100% after 6 hours of gaming, my top temperature are 85°c (~185°f)..... If you are using a stock cooler of intel, i recommend to you NOT DO SUCH OVERCLOCK, cause, your stock cooler will not handle this OC and your may lost your CPU....