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madman17230

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hi there this is madman17230 i got a poblem i have been overclocking for a while now and i have recently desided i am going to biuld a new rig in like a few weeks so i desided i will overclock the earwax out of my q6600 it has been running great for over a year @3.2ghz but i got it @ 3.95ghz now and it ran prime95 stable overnight but now when i go to play bad company it will crash about 5mins into playing so what gives if its prime stable why will it crash gaming
vcore-1.35v
memcore-2.6v
memdavider-2.66
cpumultiplier-9
timming- 5 7 7 18
prime stable overnight but not while playing bad company 2 any input would be great thanks

is it possible bad company dont like high overclocks???
 
The reason games crash is because the overclock isn't 100% stable. First off, you are going to blow up your ram at 2.6v that is just insane. 2.1 or 2.2 is the highest you should ever go with DDR2. At 2.6v you may have already damaged your ram.

Also, your vcore is way too low for that frequency. You should be pumping it up to 1.4 or even higher until you find your max frequency. Then you can back it down.

Also try testing with OCCT. It only takes an hour and seems to work better for me for testing stability.

I would also like to say that it is pretty rare to get a Q6600 to run at 4 gigahurtz stably. Most only do about 3.6 to 3.8. So if you never get it stable at 3.95, don't be sad.
 
Monitor your temperatures. Maybe when you game, your video card dumps a lot of extra heat into the case (prime stresses only the CPU, not the vid. card), so it pushes the CPU "over the edge" thermally. Try running prime + furmark. Also, you are testing prime with 8 threads right? You should be... or at least 4. (The q6600 is quadcore + HT right, so 8 threads? I can't even remember).
 
thanks alot guys heatsurge was right on with the video card heating up it would raise my cpu temp to 83c ouch! i was allready running hot with prime i didnt even think about the added heat from the video card with just prime it was huvering around
77c-79c and sorry about the typo i said 2.6v for the mem but i ment 2.26v sorry
so i added another fan between vid card and cpu h/s and i think i am good to go
i hope the cpu dont burn up for at least 2 weeks at those temps gaming performence is deffently bestter at least 15fps avg. boost
and just incase u were wondering i got a ati 5870 vid card

thanks alot for the speedy replies
 
I've never had a CPU blow up / die on me, and I've overclocked very highly - even for years at a time.

Maybe if you have it for more than 3 years, but hell - who waits that long for an upgrade these days :-) .

And yeah, video cards are teh suck if you don't have good airflow. I've gone to liquid cooling now, but the types of air coolers that dump heat into the case can really fuck things up with hot video card revisions (GTX 470/480, ATI 5970, etc.).

Bottom line with OCing is - test, test, test... and monitor temperatures with all conditions. I monitor with Realtemp when I need to and the "logging" function for the temp is really useful (you can look at the log even if the PC crashed to see how the temps were right before it crashed).
 
I was asking Madman, but it looks like his issue is resolved. That Q66 was a beast when it came out.
 
Zappypants said:
I was asking Madman, but it looks like his issue is resolved. That Q66 was a beast when it came out.
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I have the Q6600 in my back up computer. I may try and overclock it some day with the help of the clan. In this computer I have an Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz. Installed memory (RAM) 6.00 GB..... 64-bit OS
 
i basically have no idea how to over clock my i7 except using gigabyte software.
 
z242pilot said:
i basically have no idea how to over clock my i7 except using gigabyte software.
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i7 920 overclocking thread - Overclock.net - Overclocking.net

Overclock.net - Overclocking.net and XtremeSystems Inc are probably the best forums for squeezing all you can out of your rig. As far as stability testing, people ramble on about "Prime stable lulz 111eleventyone", but they overlook POVRAY, Cinebench, PCMarkVantage, hell, even SiSoft Sandra has some decent tools to determine if your rig is truly stable (and Linpack is the be-all, end-all of cpu tests). Anywho, play around, a 1 ghz overclock on an i7 is stupidly easy on halfway decent cooling :) The stock i7 heatsink is decent, but if you want clocks on air you're going to have to go aftermarket. Good luck!
 
<TABLE class=gaming_rig><TBODY><TR><TH>This is what I know of my computer and that I have 8 cpus running at one time.





Manufacturer:
</TH><TD>Dell Inc.
</TD></TR><TR><TH>Processor:</TH><TD>Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 860 @ 2.80GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.8GHz
</TD></TR><TR><TH>Memory:</TH><TD>8192MB RAM
</TD></TR><TR><TH>Hard Drive:</TH><TD>984 GB
</TD></TR><TR><TH>Video Card:</TH><TD>ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series
</TD></TR><TR><TH>Monitor:</TH><TD>
</TD></TR><TR><TH>Sound Card:</TH><TD>Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)
</TD></TR><TR><TH>Speakers/Headphones:</TH><TD>Phillips 60 watts Bass
</TD></TR><TR><TH>Keyboard:</TH><TD>USB Root Hub
</TD></TR><TR><TH>Mouse:</TH><TD>USB Root Hub
</TD></TR><TR><TH>Mouse Surface:</TH><TD>
</TD></TR><TR><TH>Operating System:</TH><TD>Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_rtm.090713-1255)
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
 
SiSoftware Sandra - Free software downloads and software reviews - CNET Download.com
If you want some more in-depth system information, download and install Sandra. Somewhere in it is a "hardware information" tab. It'll give you the chipset, driver versions, cpu/motherboard/ambient temps, etc. As far as your i7 860, you have 4 physical cores and 4 virtual cores (8 threads), for lack of a better word...see Hyper-threading - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. It's part of the Lynnfield family http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynnfield_(microprocessor). Here's a review on your chip: The Intel Core i7 860 Review - AnandTech :: Your Source for Hardware Analysis and News

As far as your rig, unless it's an XPS (if memory serves), the bios is pretty locked down as far as overclocking options. Still, nice rig to frag on :)
 
Here's my best stable OC. I've got the EVGA X58-Tri SLI and 6GB Corsair RAM@ 7-7-7-20. It's too hot to run this in the summer at this speed, but it's great for the winter :)

Suck it Renno!


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I've been running at 4 GHz with my i7 920 since last July. I didn't even try to go higher, I shot for 4 and hit it first time and haven't touched it since. My settings are in the CPU-Z validation link in my signature.
 
My shit runs 4.2 in the middle of summer with no a/c. Year around baby. My shit is a daily driver. Liquid cooling FTW and now you can suck it sixer lol
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Yeah, go ahead and try that in Atlanta or S. Florida. First, no AC and liquid cooling or not you'll burn up long before your cpu. Don't get me wrong, I can run it at that level in the summer on air cooling, but choose not to do so as that creates extra heat (tops out at 68C under full load on air).

Like Soldier though, I usually keep mine at 4.0 and really there is no need to go higher on a daily basis for what I do with my comp.
 
Zappypants said:
SiSoftware Sandra - Free software downloads and software reviews - CNET Download.com
If you want some more in-depth system information, download and install Sandra. Somewhere in it is a "hardware information" tab. It'll give you the chipset, driver versions, cpu/motherboard/ambient temps, etc. As far as your i7 860, you have 4 physical cores and 4 virtual cores (8 threads), for lack of a better word...see Hyper-threading - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. It's part of the Lynnfield family http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynnfield_(microprocessor). Here's a review on your chip: The Intel Core i7 860 Review - AnandTech :: Your Source for Hardware Analysis and News

As far as your rig, unless it's an XPS (if memory serves), the bios is pretty locked down as far as overclocking options. Still, nice rig to frag on :)
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Mine is a Dell studio xps...
 
Um, anything over 2.5 is a bit freaky, thank you very much :P.
 
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