jkcheng122
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Originally posted by: mentaldemise
Well, I have this board with a q6600 (Quad Core 2.6's) And 4 gigs of GSkill DDR2-800. The memory has no problems running at 1000 mhz, which is pretty nice. THe problem is overclocking the CPU. In order to get anything nea 3.0 I have to alter either the NB Voltage or the HY Voltage. In Bios these voltages aren't set, it's auto or you have to manually set them. No incrememnting. And without knowing the default voltages it can be slightly dangerous. At any rate, I'm not sure what the issue is but no matter what I set those voltages to there isn't any stability. I can run at 100% CPU load on all 4 cores and not get hot. But I get random reboots. I need to look into the PSU but it doesn't have any problems functioning at 10% oveclocking. Also, the tools that come with the board are messed up. If you install the AI overclocking thing or w/e it overrides what windwos does with the APCI functions. And really screws windows up. No idea what the other dude was talking about Vista bitching about 4Gigs of memory, I had no problems. And if it wanted to boot off the second SATA drive it was because the MBR was there. Or you had that one set in bios. None the less, there are two BIOS updates for this already, not that they did a whole lot. The BIOS update feature is really nice, you can put the .bin update file on a flash drive and it mounts it for you. At any rate, if anyone finds out another solution to getting the q6600 to goto 3.0 and be stable please hit me up. I don't usually do forums so email me at mental@mental-x.net Thanks.
were you able to achieve any sort of overclocking with the q6600 and just can't hit 3.0ghz? or no oc at all?
i'm also afraid to set the NB/SB/HT as i do not know what the default is at to go up from. i'm using a E8400 cpu and i can't even get 1400fsb to stay stable, crashes during 3dmark.