Q6700 Maxes out at 3.2Ghz

[RicoDirenzo]

did you add your own thermal paste? or did you use what came on the AF7?

AS5 is what is use universally.

 

[nOcLuE98]

AS5 is what is use universally.

ok. that is good stuff

 

[Poizen22]

teh mx-1 pad is better tho.

 

[RicoDirenzo]

Hmmmmm........EVGA nForce 680i SLI 775 AR Version, 4 gigs of Patriot extreme 5-5-5-5-12, Maxtor Sata 3.0gb 500gig, Dual Evga 8800GT's in SLi, XP Pro SP2. Okay, new board: FSB 1333, Multiplier 10, Vcore 1.42 volts, Q6700, CPU with Arctic Cooler Pro = 36 Celcius (a little hot in my book). Nada............I drop the FSB to 1270 = 3.197. All is good. I can't get the Q6700, regardless of vcore voltage changes etc past 3.2 ghz. It tried running the new system wiht both Vista Home Primium and XP Pro SP2. I'm thinking I got the one Q6700 that is a POS (Piece of %@#&) or am I missing something here? Could it be the Patriot memory as it was cheap? 2 x 2gigs? Very Frustrating.

 

[veedubfreak]

try 8x400 and see if your board just has a FSB hole in it.

 

[RicoDirenzo]

try 8x400 and see if your board just has a FSB hole in it.

I'll give it a shot and let you know tomorrow. Thanks! I'm tempted to buy a E8400 and sell this Q6700. Now that would be stupid! Actually, I just found out that my Evga board will support the Wolfdale with a bios update so I am buying a new one on ebay later today. I'll use the Q6700 in my recording studio Puter in place of the Phenom 9500 which has turned out to be a dog.......really bad for AMD and very sad as I love their company support! EDIT: I just bought the E8400 retail for $219.00. Man, these CPU's are hard to find! What gives with that? Given that the Q6700 cost me $450, I'll feeling pretty good about the possibility of 4ghz on air for that price and the 45 nm @ 1333FSB stock means this thing should rock!

 

[nOcLuE98]

yeah, i suggested a fsb hole as well. Can you still test that out? I want to know.

 

[RicoDirenzo]

Well well well......come to find out that the 680i has overclocking issues wihtout the P32 bios update. I bought the E8400 and so I have to update the bios anyway. I guess if had just done the research in the first place I wouldn't have been so annoying!!! I'm going to flash the bios tonight and I'll report what happens to the Q6700 as my E8400 won't be here till next week.

 

[RicoDirenzo]

Installed P32 bios and had to reinstall XP. The suggestions from EVGA is that this increases quadcore stability with overclocking: They are right. Vcore 1.3875, Mult 10 @ 1333 = 3.33 Ghz, core. ran stable!!!!! Oc's dual 8800 gt's 675/925 and YIKES! 3Dmark06 = 17468! highest I could get before was 16,407! I'm getting the Wolfdale E8400 next week and 4 ghz should be a peice of cake. That should run me up to ove 19000 I'm thinkiing.

 

[nOcLuE98]

oh come on! run that q6700 up there! you paid that much for that 10x multi, use it!!