Hi there guys
I have recently been dipping my toes into the waters of overclocking with the view of squeezing some more FPS out of my games. I have an old q6600 which I have read is very overclockable from the 2.4ghz stock. Here is my computer if you need it:
OS: Vista Home Premium 32bit
CPU: Q6600 @ 2.4ghz
Graphics: 9800 GTX+ 512meg
Mem: 4gig DDR2 @ 800mhz (stock)
My Mobo comes up as OEM.
I managed to get into the bios and found something called FOX intelligent stepping which appeared to raise the core clock and voltages together in what I assumed to be correct intervals. However, after the first over cock I did (only to 2.54 ghz) Windows failed to load and I had to reset.
Any idea why this is happening? Do I need to underclock my memory a bit? I dont think it can be heat - my machine runs cool and the overclock is only slight. I am aiming to get towards 3ghz if I can.
Any advice you can give will be much appreciated I am new to this and dont want to wreck my machine!
Thanks guys Let me know if you need any more info.
I have recently been dipping my toes into the waters of overclocking with the view of squeezing some more FPS out of my games. I have an old q6600 which I have read is very overclockable from the 2.4ghz stock. Here is my computer if you need it:
OS: Vista Home Premium 32bit
CPU: Q6600 @ 2.4ghz
Graphics: 9800 GTX+ 512meg
Mem: 4gig DDR2 @ 800mhz (stock)
My Mobo comes up as OEM.
I managed to get into the bios and found something called FOX intelligent stepping which appeared to raise the core clock and voltages together in what I assumed to be correct intervals. However, after the first over cock I did (only to 2.54 ghz) Windows failed to load and I had to reset.
Any idea why this is happening? Do I need to underclock my memory a bit? I dont think it can be heat - my machine runs cool and the overclock is only slight. I am aiming to get towards 3ghz if I can.
Any advice you can give will be much appreciated I am new to this and dont want to wreck my machine!
Thanks guys Let me know if you need any more info.