The Official OC (OverClocking) Thread!

Well, you're using a lower voltage than I did to reach that speed, but my chip was clocked slightly lower to start with, so it's hard to say. (The E4300 is 1.80Ghz, not 1.866)

 

actually the stock speed is 2.66, not 1.866..........
and its a quad...
stable now at 1.424v speed = 3400mhz
edit:
not stable

 

I lol'ed. I had you confused with the guy running an E6300.
I owned a Q6600 as well as the E4300, which I have since sold, but I ran that at 1.45V to reach 3.24Ghz. That started at 2.400Ghz. It was the weaker L8 revision. I could get it to about 3.42Ghz with 1.5V, but 24/7 stability wasn't great as I had all four memory slots populated. Since I wanted 4GB of RAM more than I wanted extra mhz, that's how I left it.

 

lol, i am the same guy....
but the e6300 is absolutely stable at 3400mhz, now i am trying to get the same speed with the Q6700

Q6700 not stable at 3400 mhz with 1.424v
i think i am gonna leave it at 3200mhz, what say you?

 

Now why would you do that to a man! No wonder I got confused. I had no idea you'd stabilised the E6300. The Q6700 will probably take a similar voltage to reach the same speeds. Quads don't overclock as well as the duals.

 

hahahahahahaha, yea the E6300 was perfectly stable at 3.4ghz with 1.3v
but the Q6700 takes much more voltage to get there and still isn't stable.

just for kicks, shall i put the E6300 back in this motherboard and try getting to 3.8ghz? LOL

 

Don't forget the extra cache of the quads boosts their per-core speed too. At identical clock speeds (3.15) my Q6600 outpaced my E4300 by about 12%, so really, your Q6700 at 3.2Ghz is already your E6300 at 3.6Ghz, and there's twice as many cores!
Don't be afraid to raise the voltage. There are limits, but you're being over-cautious at the moment.

 

ok, let me try 1.5v and see where that gets me...
tested: 1.48v 3500mhz not stable
1.48v 3400mhz stable

 

going for lower voltage now...

 

Sam,
Is C1E turned on, or do you have it underclocked for a reason? It should be on the 9x CPU multiplier and 1.8GHz. Just asking!

Russ

 

C1E is turned on, I didn't see any reason to turn it off, remember it's only a file server.

 

I know that but I was questioning the 6x multiplier, and C1E was the answer!

Russ

 

well i think 3.2ghz is probably the best this cpu can do...@ 1.34v
its perfectly stable at this voltage and speed but anything more requires a lot more voltage
for example: 3.4ghz takes 1.44v to be 100% stable.

i hate this Q6700!!!!!!!!!!!
it has to be the worst quad core overclocker EVER!!!!!!!!

i am gonna sell my q6700, get a q9650, and call it a day...

anyone wanna buy my q6700?

-im1992

 

Not after those remarks, however best of luck.

 

How much?? PM me with the info... you in the states?

 

LOL, quite right, You don't smack talk your hardware when you're trying to sell it!
The Q6600 I had wasn't as good as your 6700 was, but I reckon I could have got it a bit further with 2 sticks of memory.
With the newer batches, Intel absolutely destroyed the overclocking on the Q6 series. Presumably it was deliberate to force the 9 series on people instead.

 

Well, it wasn't really smack talk if someone is only looking for 3.2ghz out of it...hehe.

But yea, I agree, I probably should have kept my mouth shut.

When I was trying to overclock, I had no intention of selling the chip so it really didn't matter what I said about it.

What do you guys think is a fair price for a Q6700 nowadays?
I have the original box and the original heatsink/fan, unused (you need the fan for warranty purposes).

-im1992

 

$150 perhaps?

 

im1992,
When I sold my E4300, I told the person who bought it how far I had overclocked it, I just didn't whip out my machete and chop it to little pieces though! LOL!!

Russ

 

lol
i guess i will just sell it on ebay...