Can't overclock Q6600!

Originally Posted by jeremyshaw

that's what people said about conroe, too.

So Kentsfield is just 4 netburst stitched together ?

Actually Conroe was a completely different and much more powerful, not to mention energy efficient core than Netburst.

If you want to hit 4 just get an AMD Phenom ll.

my Q6600 on my 680i board didn't play nicely and was difficult to OC at 3 ghz so I decided to get a Gigabyte mobo which specs are in the sig. I had it stable at 3.51 ghz which was the maximum I can go but I decided to get it at 3.2 to make it last longer and there was no noticible difference from 3.51 and 3.2. If you want a 4 ghz cpu just get an i7 or Phenom II Black Edition quad core. If your cpu can be stable on 3.7 that's way awesome!

Originally Posted by Jacez44

Well excuse me for having a 680i board for 2 years and thinking P45 could do better.

I'm not a n00b, people. I simply think that a CPU should be able to overclock until it hits 90C.

Unfortunately, it does seem like I've hit some kind of wall. But I would rather believe that it is because of a bad chip than a rule.

Your changing your tune now on us...before you were saying that it could not be the chip and had to be the board. That is what people were commenting on, that your chip might just be at the wall that most get to. We were not saying YOU CANT, you already said that you cant get higher, we were just saying that it is not unusual to hit the wall where you did and in fact you are actually performing better than most (albeit at huge voltage increases).

1.6v is already on the high end of safe for your chip. I would be happy with that sweet 3.7 OC you got and call it a day. Temps are only one thing to OCing...if you dont believe me go look at the guys who put chips under liquid nitrogen, etc. and still dont just have unlimited OC potential just because their chip is cool.

At this point just go i7 man, your sig shows you like to get the top of the line gear so I really dont know why you are not there already. It would be cheaper than continuing to buy boards and chips just to get a Q6600 a bit higher (which at this point seems like is not very likely).

Originally Posted by Jacez44

Actually Conroe was a completely different and much more powerful, not to mention energy efficient core than Netburst.

I think that was his point

Originally Posted by Jacez44

I'm not a n00b, people. I simply think that a CPU should be able to overclock until it hits 90C.

I don't know how to say this nicely....

And for the record, I maxed my Q660 at 3.58.

Originally Posted by Jacez44

I'm not a n00b, people. I simply think that a CPU should be able to overclock until it hits 90C.

So if you never hit 90C you can overclock infinitely? Man those guys running phenoms @ only 6ghz on liquid helium/nitrogen must be real noobs!

This was on air with tuniq 120. Did not push harder cause this was good enough for me cause memory kept crapping out.

lol OP is a total noob to overclocking and how it works. /thread.

EDIT: Stupid.

Originally Posted by Jacez44

Well excuse me for having a 680i board for 2 years and thinking P45 could do better.

I'm not a n00b, people. I simply think that a CPU should be able to overclock until it hits 90C.

Unfortunately, it does seem like I've hit some kind of wall. But I would rather believe that it is because of a bad chip than a rule.

Different chips run at different temps/voltages/specifications. My Q6600 was plenty happy at 3.2ghz, but needed quite a bit of volts to go to 3.4. I have an i7 that does 4ghz like it doesn't even care though. Every chip is different.

And 90C? The thermal oh-crap point for a G0 is 75C iirc.

Originally Posted by Jacez44

Well excuse me for having a 680i board for 2 years and thinking P45 could do better.

I'm not a n00b, people. I simply think that a CPU should be able to overclock until it hits 90C.

Unfortunately, it does seem like I've hit some kind of wall. But I would rather believe that it is because of a bad chip than a rule.

Believe what you want to believe, but chip limitations are a simple fact. My Q9550 won't do 4GHz stably no matter how much voltage I pump into it. And it's not the board, because I've tested with higher FSBs. It's just something you have to accept.

Originally Posted by mrrogers747

And 90C? The thermal oh-crap point for a G0 is 75C iirc.

85C-90C depending on the chip.

My Q6600 B3 wouldn't go past 3.2, even on peltier/water setup and regardless of how much voltage I crammed through it.

Originally Posted by Plumber4life

This was on air with tuniq 120. Did not push harder cause this was good enough for me cause memory kept crapping out.

What mobo & RAM was used to achieve that?

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