The Official OC (OverClocking) Thread!

YES, 3.2 is or should be a snap for even the least of Q6600 so a cake walk for the Q6700 I'd presume. W/ good cooling, you should at least get 3.6v on 10x easy, using the 8x for better FSB is a long shot w/o some sort of heat. The CNPS9700 is pretty decent, bu tcan be beat by the ThermalRights of 92mm and bigger. The 680i is not the greatest of chipsets by nVidea recently and certainly a limiting factor w/ a quad. You just have to realy take time to find stable CPU:RAM ratios to hold. It's not that those B3's weren't good, just not the best on higher OC, but did great on low vcores at same clock, so mostly only good for stock,non OCr's.

If you plan to keep this for a bit and get some good OC out of it, I'd strongly look into an Intel X38/X48 chipset. If you must have nVidia SLI, then you'd be better off w/ 590i for that same quad or venture into the 7x series but then I can't really comment on them yet. I can only say this early, they look promising, a leap and improvement over the not so great 6x series from nVidia.

 

i really don't wanna spend more money on a new mobo soooooo
if i go to 3.2ghz, can i be stable till July of 2009 (will the cpu survive till then?)
at that point, i will do a build from scratch with a Nehalem!
so this setup only needs to last 1 more year
by 3.6v did you mean 3.6ghz or did you actually mean 3.6volts?
btw, should i remove the heatsinks on my striker extreme (680i) and replace the stock TIM with arctic silver or similar?
thanks for the input,
-im1992

 

@ im1992,
It's not so much the speed as it is the BIOS and chipset for nVidia 6x series on either Intel or AMD side. Look up for your mobo model what looks to be the good BETA or final for your a 65nm quad as so many BETAs are tweaked to help out w/ 45nm right now. I think you'll be cool but just need to be patient and find the butter zone for the mobo and chipset. Keep CPU:RAM ratios simple, maybe 1:1 locked till you get the CPOU where you want it. Most 6x series have an un linked features and it prooved for me to be more hassle then good. Strap it and link it and tyou should be fine and CPU can or should do 3.6GHz. There's lots of us here who will be glad to help out and tweak it so.

Hope that helps!

 

The B3 stepping had a higher TDP though didn't it? So technically it would matter, even to non-overclockers...

 

IICR B3 was 125W and the G0 is 95W

but when you OC, it would increase

 

as with any CPU, surely?

 

sammorris,

It could, but most motherboard bios' let you change enough things! Turning off Speed Step and C1E makes it about even, or so I've been led to understand!

Russ

 

i guess i will just wait till the quad comes in.....
in any case i have bios 1305 which is supposed to be the sweet spot for overclockers...don't know about quad-core overclocking but it is supposed to be good for dual-core overclocking.
thanks,
-im1992

 

Check this out! http://www.eemotherboard.com/epu.php This is what all the hubbub was about between GigaByte and asus! I would have to guess that's it's just finally come out. Now lets see what Anandtech and Tom's have to say us as far as the numbers of the power savings go, especially for "Overclockers"!

EDIT:
I just answered my own question! http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/asus_p5q_deluxe/21.htm
The energy saving part only works at "Bone Stock) settings

Russ

 

wouldnt intels speedstep do the same?

 

I'm pretty sure it would.

 

The gigabytes energy saving mode also lowers the vcore and I think does something else with the power regulators to reduce energy consumption.

 

shaffaaf,

Speedstep is a little on the clunky side compared to the Energy savers that are coming into play now on new motherboards. The EPU on the Asus boards only work at bone stock settings. It disables if you change any of the motherboard settings from the defaults!

Russ

 

Then surely speedstep is better?

 

you saying if you OC, it wont work?

got any links to that, with P45s that are using newer BIOS's?

 

shaffaaf,

That's exactly what I'm saying, and this is the latest EPU-6 engine that Asus just came out with. I posted it once but I'll post it again!
http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/asus_p5q_deluxe/21.htm Second paragraph, last line! This is a review of the P5Q Deluxe!

Russ

 

They didn't bench to see if any performance was lost when EPU-6 was running...

 

sammorris,

How can you see if any performance is lost using it if you can't turn it on at anything but the default bios settings? LOL!! You can't overclock and use it! That's why they say "Bone Stock" only! LOL!!

Russ