just_sum_dude
n00b
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- Nov 1, 2004
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I am holding out for Ivy Bridge. I have been running my Q6600 @ 2.66GHz for the past couple of years, but recently decided to see how far I could push it. The thing is, I'm having a lot of trouble getting the damn thing stable past 3.10GHz. Loads into windows fine, but forces to reboot or bsods on the OCCT Linpack test. Temps are reasonable, max 62C which is a bit toasty admittedly but Linpack creates more heat than I'll ever see in real world applications. I've increased vcore as high as 1.3825, with no real improvement. Motherboard is a Gigabyte X48-DS5. Ram is Mushkin Ascent XP2-8500 5-5-5-15 running at >1000Mhz. I realize that asking "why it no go fast" is kinda ridiculous considering the number of variables that can lead to instability. But I would appreciate any advice you guys could provide. Thanks.
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