OC a Quad 6600 with Gigabyte Board Help Requested?

[andrew010766]

I am upgrading my PC this week. Plan on trying overcloaking for the first time. Seems a few people have similar specs. as far as MB and Proc. go and was hoping you could share with me what your settings are and what your getting speed wise. Looking for something stable and hopefully error free. Here are the specs. of my system.


Thanks for your time and anu help would be great in setting this thing up.

 

[itotallybelieveyou]

might wanna get a smaller screen or better graphics card, just saying... With this setup you'll hit 3.2 no problem

 

[andrew010766]

I picked this card based on Toms review, its in not a very high end card but either is the price. Sure like everyone else I would love to get the best graphics card out there but I have to pick and choose where the money goes. I was also thinking when the prices come down I could get a matching card and do crossfire. As far as the monitor goes I am using it now with a lessor card and it works great. Plus bigger is better anyways, right! I hope to get 3-3.2 out of this system but need help with the settings.

 

[itotallybelieveyou]

Well congrats. You'll get 3.2 for sure

 

[andrew010766]

Well got the system built and up and running. Every thing worked, no bad parts, etc... Really happy with the setup and the speed. Runs a lot faster and smoother than my older system which was not a bad system to start. Any help with were to start overclocking would be great. Not looking for anything extreme and would be happy with 3.2 stable. Here are the specs of the new setup.

Vista Ultimate 64
APEVIA X-CRUISER-BK Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
Ultra XConnect 500 Watt PS
GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS4 Rev. 2.0 LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz LGA 775 Processor Go Stepping
ZALMAN CNPS9500 LED 92mm 2 Ball Cooling Fan with Heatsink
4 Gigs of Crucial Ballistix 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel
SAPPHIRE Radeon X1950PRO 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire
ZALMAN VF700-CU 2 Ball VGA COOLER
2- 500 GB MaXtor SATA 2 Drives running Rail ) = 1 TB
20X DVD R/W Sata Drive
120 MM Fan, 4 80 MM fans, All LED and UV with UV lights installed.

 

[rotartiller]

I just built an XP Pro Rig with the Kentsfield Q6600, the DS4 Gigabyte board, 2-750gig HD in Raid1, 2 gigs of DDR2 1066 Ballistix, and a Tuniq Tower exhausting thru the top of an Antec 900 Case. Went from 2.4 to 3.01 on stock volts, stock memory timing, stock everything. It primed with no errors. I actually took it to 3.2 on stock everything but it was unstable and hence useless. Since this is going to be a work computer I'm not willing to fiddle with it much.....but if it wasn't it would be a pure joy to tinker with......Oh! the temps.....27C idle 50C torture load that should speak volumes....and Oh! the 1M Pi.......17 seconds....thats almost double my 30 second SuperPi with the overclocked AMD Dual Core at 2.8.

The only shortcoming I see is in the memory latency testing......39 vs 69. Since this was my first intel oc I could probably tighten up the timings or the divider of something.....The Gigabyte board is somewhat cryptic when it comes to overclocking......The Abit 939 AMD board is easier to work with to me...but that is probably because I am most familiar with AMD and studied up on it more. Gotta go with the prevailing wind when it comes to computers though......

 

[andrew010766]

Well I figured I should be able to get at least 3.0 OC with out having to mest with the voltage. Just not sure what setting to change in the BIOS. Its not like you just go in there and it says CPU speed and change it to 3.0 instead of the the current stock setting. I dont usually try to OC my stuff but if I can get more speeed with out the drawbacks of crashes or random errors I am more than willing to try.

 

[andrew010766]

What are yall using to test you performance? I know there are a few free utilities out there but which ones are Vista 64 friendly?