Well let's see I recently got a Corsair H50 liquid cooling system put in and wanted to see how far I could take my Q6600 as I was plan on upgrading my GPU to the 5850 card. Anyways I noticed that by simply even overclocking my CPU from 2.4Ghz to 2.7Ghz or higher would be unstable. I have successfully got it stable at 2.6Ghz. Anyways I think I have tried literally everything I have asked the same question in almost 4 different forums, eggxpert, some friends, etc. They all seem to come to the same conclusion of "I don't know what to tell you." or "You're obviously doing something wrong." So I still want to try and get this CPU to 2.8Ghz I would be even happier if 3.0Ghz was possible. I don't know if I've failed to overclock this CPU properly because of simple miscommunication, lack of knowledge on the subject, or simply my hardware is not capable of it. I still want to get an answer I hate having a question but no answer. Either way I'm going to try and communicate to the best of my ability and hopefully someone can help me with this. Let's start off with giving a detailed list of the components in my computer.
PSU: Coolermaster 600watt EXTREME POWER - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817171013
Motherboard: C2D NFORCE 680I SLI 775MB - http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?Item=N82E16813188009
CPU: Intel Quad-Core Q6600 2.4Ghz(G0) - http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115017
CPU cooling system: Corsair H50 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835181010&Tpk=Corsair%20H50
RAM: A DATA 1GB DDR2 PC6400 x 2 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820211063&cm_re=A_data_6400-_-20-211-063-_-Product
RAM #2: Also later on put in the A DATA 2GB DDR2 PC6400 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820211272&cm_re=A_data_6400-_-20-211-272-_-Product (NOTE: totaling in at 4GB of ram)
Video Card: EVGA 8800GTS 640MB - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130071
Operation system: Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
I believe that is all. Now for the settings I put in the BIOS I could list all day long on all the combination of settings I used. But let's just say I tried disabling features that were recommended by overclockers, I tried putting all the voltages really high like 1.45v to 1.525v, I also tried to unlink, link the ram from the CPU frequency. It will not go to 2.7Ghz or higher without stable results like it will just reboot and reboot.
With the CPU @ 2.6Ghz I am stable with 40C idle and 10hours of Prime95 under 100% load max temps of 51c. So I think I have more room for overclocking.
That's all the information I can think of right now. If you have any questions I will try and respond ASAP. Though it's pretty late here at the time of writing this so I will probably not be able to respond to your replies until tomorrow. Thanks!
PSU: Coolermaster 600watt EXTREME POWER - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817171013
Motherboard: C2D NFORCE 680I SLI 775MB - http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?Item=N82E16813188009
CPU: Intel Quad-Core Q6600 2.4Ghz(G0) - http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115017
CPU cooling system: Corsair H50 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835181010&Tpk=Corsair%20H50
RAM: A DATA 1GB DDR2 PC6400 x 2 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820211063&cm_re=A_data_6400-_-20-211-063-_-Product
RAM #2: Also later on put in the A DATA 2GB DDR2 PC6400 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820211272&cm_re=A_data_6400-_-20-211-272-_-Product (NOTE: totaling in at 4GB of ram)
Video Card: EVGA 8800GTS 640MB - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130071
Operation system: Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
I believe that is all. Now for the settings I put in the BIOS I could list all day long on all the combination of settings I used. But let's just say I tried disabling features that were recommended by overclockers, I tried putting all the voltages really high like 1.45v to 1.525v, I also tried to unlink, link the ram from the CPU frequency. It will not go to 2.7Ghz or higher without stable results like it will just reboot and reboot.
With the CPU @ 2.6Ghz I am stable with 40C idle and 10hours of Prime95 under 100% load max temps of 51c. So I think I have more room for overclocking.
That's all the information I can think of right now. If you have any questions I will try and respond ASAP. Though it's pretty late here at the time of writing this so I will probably not be able to respond to your replies until tomorrow. Thanks!