Overclocked Q6600 on ASUS P5Q Pro (Victory)

[jjl0402]

Sleep time, Ill catch up with you tommorrow

 

[Lupiron]

Okay, will get back to you later!

A few things to disable in there for sure!!!

--Lupi

 

[cmashwin]

Lupiron... What do u think about Anandtech's article on LLC??
They have recommended to keep it disabled at all times...

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3184&p=6

 

[Lupiron]

I think that, along with any aspect of overclocking that is potentially dangerous, that as long as you pay attention to your own voltages, it can go either way. But for low Over clocks, why not leave it disabled?

But for the upper ones, or when the temp becomes a factor due to that high voltage you need just to have it droop down under load... It's time to enable LLC and get really soaring.

I can not prove or disprove that there comes more instability when it is enabled, because i don't have stability problems, ever, really. 😉

And my LLCs are usually always enabled, unless its an NVidia board!

Use HWMonitor, which records high, low and current voltages and junk, so if it spikes, all you need to do is look at HWMonitor, and it will have some odd 4.008 VCore listed right there if you had a spike!

--Lupi

 

[Lupiron]

Try disabling AI clock twister, And Transaction booster. Then can cause Mem instabilities.

Basically freezes, and memory failing during tests.

--Lupi

 

[cmashwin]

Thanks for clearing that up... I think it makes more sense now

 

[Lupiron]

Well, not really. I can only say from MY experience, I haven't had any trouble with it. Only positive results, really.

But on the other hand, I assume it is there for a reason, so it's not a bad idea to just use the newer HWMonitor, and have it open all day in a idle windows. When you look at it, it will have a recorded High section for all the listed voltages and junk.

So you can see what the Max was throughout the entire period the computer was on.

--Lupi

 

[cmashwin]

By the way, as for me, enabling or disabling it makes little difference, disabling it increases my loaded temps by 2degrees.. My mobo is Asus P5KC..
My highest spike was 2.9v..

 

[Lupiron]

Niiice, and you recorded it with HWMonitor?

I would like to find a way to produce the natural spikes, and see what they do!!!

--Lupi

 

[cmashwin]

yeah.. But it was just for a short period.. around 14 hours.. Played crysis, browsed, let it idle for sometime and stuff just to make it spike more.. But, I really didnt expect a spike!! But yep!! HWmonitor showed max voltage of 2.9!!

 

[Lupiron]

Makes me wonder about 4.08 it showed on an old Xfx 780i!!

--Lupi!

 

[cmashwin]

Nvidia... I am not surprised!!