[Tech] Overclocking for dummies

Wol

Wol

In Cryo Sleep
So wol is too cheap and skint to afford a new processor / mobo combination at the moment, so is going to try and overclock his current system: Q6600, some... fancy looking cooler, 8gb ram and gigabyte ds4l style motherboard thats partially stable and takes a minute to POST

BUT HEY HO

Wols not done this overclocking malarkey before. Anyone know any good guides out there which are likely to help wol in his ventures to overclocking? What are deemed good resources for this sort of stuff these days out of the google results page for "Q6600 overclock" :p
 
Spicypixel

Spicypixel

New Member
Wol said:
So wol is too cheap and skint to afford a new processor / mobo combination at the moment, so is going to try and overclock his current system: Q6600, some... fancy looking cooler, 8gb ram and gigabyte ds4l style motherboard thats partially stable and takes a minute to POST

BUT HEY HO

Wols not done this overclocking malarkey before. Anyone know any good guides out there which are likely to help wol in his ventures to overclocking? What are deemed good resources for this sort of stuff these days out of the google results page for "Q6600 overclock" :p
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Enjoy CPU death.
EDIT: Run CPU-Z and find out if the chip is a B3 or a G0
 
waterproofbob

waterproofbob

Junior Administrator
As long as it is a G0 you are good to go those things OC like you wouldn't believe.
With DDR2 you will most likely have to up the latency on your RAM step to get the most out of the CPU but it is well worth it.

Don't have my little Q6600 chart anymore it seems, I found on mine that 3.4GHz was a nice stable point that didn't get too hot. Anything higher than that was a bit too high a voltage to make it stable.

Will have a search and see if I can find a proper guide for you.

Main 3 things when OCing:
1. Be patient, don't just go WHEEEEE 3.8JIGAHURTZ WOOOT. As this will be followed by AWWWW NOOOOO NEED NEW PROSESORZ. Do it in increments and check it's stable at each one. Having said that if you have a G0 going straight to 3.0GHz with sensible CPU voltage and ram settings will be fine.

2. Get CPU-Z and prime95, one for checking the cores are doing what they should the other to stress them until they fall over (or preferably don't).

3. Pull a Nanor bake all the components and buy an i7.
 
Wol

Wol

In Cryo Sleep
Yeah, CPU-Z says Its the G0 revision.

Whats considered "sensible CPU voltage and ram settings" :p

Again - n00b Wol knows not what sensible values / increases are! I know what acceptable ranges are for things like PIC microprocessors cos I've read the datasheets! Not quite for this processor though. lol.
 
Wol

Wol

In Cryo Sleep
"I recommend doing stress tests of 5 hrs minimum." pfft.

I just imagine the grolsch dude going "these things take time" :p
 
Nanor

Nanor

Well-Known Member
I can personally recommend baking your graphics card. Or your hard drive.
 
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