Trying 3Ghz Q6600 on the Asus striker extreme

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Well im at 3.10 area, I am just working hard on stabalizing it sometimes it will freeze at the bios or it will freeze in windows its not the temps there a cool 29c for the cpu and 3-c for the motherboard vcore at 1.5 and nb at 1.55, I took a cpu-z screenie of it. and ideas on how to stabalize, reply please.

 
Those ratios are quite normal for the Nvidia chipsets, steeda. I think it's best if he lock the memory at it's default settings and voltage for now before doing anything else.
 
I agree, but i dont know why they are having problems getting to 3.4ghz, that is so easy, i wish i was sitting infront of there computer, an q6600 should be able to do it with only 1.45v
 
The 680i chipsets run freaking hot. I had to ease back my 3.45ghz OC to 3.3ghz since the weather here has gotten hotter. Under full load my MB temps almost hit 70C. Now it's much cooler, rarely cracking 40C

Before you go and push your clocks, check your mobo temps.
 
My motherboard has never seen 40c right now its at 32c and when im at my 3.1Ghz stable'ng it its at 33c and thats at a 1.55v nb and a 1.6v sb
 
They probaly are there not that high on my 2.81Ghz over clock the nb is at 1.25 and sb at 1.5 but i'm pushing my voltages trying to boot with 3.1Ghz but I can't I did once but I can't now it freezes loading vista.
 
Dave, I would honestly sell the board on ebay and then go with a p35 motherboard, you will easily get to 3.4-3.6ghz, that way you dont have to deal with the head ache
 
2x 8800GTS's and yeah I gave up on it 2.81 is fine anyhow, in the winter when its colder I might try it again. thanks everyone.
 
Dave, the only thing that is wrong with the picture is that the processor can do 3.4ghz so easily, I dont know why people are having such a hard time with the motherboard.
 
steeda no doubt the CPU can do 3.6Ghz as well.but his mobo is holding him back.i think you should read his spec fully before replying.

and notice he got a pretty high VID as well 1.3V so he will need alot of vcore to do 3.2Ghz and of course temp and the stupid vdrop on the nvidia mobo.its well known!do you not know?
 
"Y2kratk2Y, could you post specific setting for voltages and so forth?"

It was pretty easy to hit this speed even when I left all voltage settings on auto.
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Im using Bios rev 1303 (best bios for q6600)
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Vcore is at 1.2v (lowered for better temps and still stable)
Memory voltage is at 2.0v
all other voltages are on auto
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FSB 1400
memory unlinked
memory speed 1000 (overclocked from 800Mhz)
timings 5-5-5-15
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left all the spread spectrum's on auto except for LDT and CPU spread spectrum (which turned themslves off when OC'ing)
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thermal monitor auto (best to leave that on so u dont fry ur chip)
execute disable bit enabled (never turn this off, EVER!)
virtualisation enabled (dunno what it is but i left it on anyway)
all others disabled
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thats what i currently have it set at off the top of my head.

cant really push it much further than that until i invest in some liquid cooling.

I did manage to hit 3.74Ghz once on a really cold morning tho 😀
 
iluv, I know the situation and have worked with Dave on the overclock, i know the situation he is in. I forgot that he had 2 video cards so I guess he is stuck with a nvidia motherboard, I am just screaming b/c that processor will go much higher with another motherboard.
 
those are not mine.i still deciding should i build a rig at the end of the year for a cheap current gen intel.or should i wait until maybe mid next year to get a nehalem and GTX280?what do you think?
 
I can tell you this, I have a qx9650 at 4.2ghz with 2x 3870's and it is just not worth it to wait and then go all out for next gen. I went from a q6600 with 8800gts 320mb, and i just cant see the advantage except in video encoding, my time it took me for a 700mb file to be encoded with q6600 at 3.6ghz vs my qx9650 was only 4 minutes. If it is worth it to you to wait one year and upgrade to save yourself 1-4 minutes wait, but if you dont want to wait, stay with what you have, b/c it is good now and will be in 1 year and not worth upgrading at all.
 
thats what im thinking as well.because pretty much like graphics card such as 9600GT can do more then 30fps in most game which is smooth enough and 9800GTX etc get over 60 or even 80fps.but is that needed?i really dont think so.but of course over the course of time when new demanding games come out its performance level in game will drop.im still thinking pretty hard.

gimme some true advise which would last me over a year.
 
I just got my qx 9650 stable at 4.35ghz last night, its taken 2 weeks to do it at 1.55v and only 65c on load, but i have watercooling, and i dont even use my 3870's anymore for gaming, they just sit in my computer pretty much and collect dust. Your right though, i would just stick with what I have, b/c going from a q6600 to a qx9650 was pretty much not worth it although i did get a good buy sold my q6600 for 300$ and got a qx9650 for 800$
 
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