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I'd like to start by apologizing for yet another Q6600 post in this forum, but I'm am quite confused on this.
I was messing around with the clock speeds on my computer today and I managed to confuse myself a little bit. I have had my G0 Q6600 at 378x9 = 3.4ghz on my Abit IP35-e. I was a bit curious if a higher FSB would actually allow it to benchmark a bit higher. Knowing that I don't have proper cooling to run my vcore high enough to have a stable 3.6ghz I decided I would try for 400x8 = 3.2ghz and see how it benchmarks in comparison to my previous clock speed and allowing it to run a little bit cooler. This is where my confusion arises.
I went into bios and set it to 400x8 and crashed trying to load Windows. I thought possibly my ram needed more juice so I bumped it up to 2.1v and tried loosening the timings, it crashed again. I then moved on to see if my problem was with the northbridge. Long story short, sort of, I eventually increased the vcore from its previous setting, as I had always run 378x9 stable at and found the computer once again stable.
Why is it that I need increase my vcore quite substantially to run 400x8 = 3.2ghz as opposed to 378x9 = 3.4ghz? The increase was quite large, a small jump I could marginially understand due to the increase in fsb, but the overall clock is slower and I have to give it a lot more vcore for this.
I was messing around with the clock speeds on my computer today and I managed to confuse myself a little bit. I have had my G0 Q6600 at 378x9 = 3.4ghz on my Abit IP35-e. I was a bit curious if a higher FSB would actually allow it to benchmark a bit higher. Knowing that I don't have proper cooling to run my vcore high enough to have a stable 3.6ghz I decided I would try for 400x8 = 3.2ghz and see how it benchmarks in comparison to my previous clock speed and allowing it to run a little bit cooler. This is where my confusion arises.
I went into bios and set it to 400x8 and crashed trying to load Windows. I thought possibly my ram needed more juice so I bumped it up to 2.1v and tried loosening the timings, it crashed again. I then moved on to see if my problem was with the northbridge. Long story short, sort of, I eventually increased the vcore from its previous setting, as I had always run 378x9 stable at and found the computer once again stable.
Why is it that I need increase my vcore quite substantially to run 400x8 = 3.2ghz as opposed to 378x9 = 3.4ghz? The increase was quite large, a small jump I could marginially understand due to the increase in fsb, but the overall clock is slower and I have to give it a lot more vcore for this.