Quad Core & Q6600.

[augest]

I got a Zalman 9500, Worked great for my E6700, Which I got up to 3.5 GHz easy.

Guess I'll try and flash my bios. Will it reset all my setting when I do? Or is there anything I need to do or go about doing prior or after doing this?

 

[Poizen22]

itl reset the bios setting to default that is it. just download it onto a floppy or usb stick pop it in set it as boot priority and whatch the progress bar go, then itl finish and boot back up, i dotn understand how people brick the mobo's doign a bios update its easier then instaling windows. alltho vista has been made so much easier now.

 

[augest]

Where do I even find the **** bios download on the eVGA site... Ugh..

Right now. I've got it at like 206 FSB and been running prime95 on it for over an hour now, And been 100% stable. Temps seem to be doing fine for 100% load as hot as it already is in here.

 

[NosBoost300]

is your 680i an a1? because ifnot... that is your problem...

if its the 680i from your first post... it is not an a1... and i doubt u will reach anything higher than 3.3ghz... that was my lmit on my 2 asus 680i's

woulda been better off picking up an e8400/e8500 in my opinion... i love my e 8500 more than my old q6700 and q6600

 

[augest]

Mine is a AR. I'm aware I wont get a high over clock. To be honest I'd been happy at 3.2 GHz.

 

[patonb]

If you read the evga site, you need to log in/make an account to get to those files.

 

[NosBoost300]

bios update will not help.. and p40 is best oc'ing bios btw

i may be wrong.. its been a while since i had the 680i

 

[augest]

Well then **** whats the point? So far got it stable at 2.8 at 1226 FSB... Going to keep running prime95 awhile longer then try it higher.

 

[baron5]

its most probably just a bad q6600, the new ones commonly dont o/c very good prob due to the high VID's

 

[NosBoost300]

remember good ol' drizzt... he couldnt get past 3.0 ghz because his board was not an A1.... if it isnt an A1... it isnt meant for a quad core... even says on the box... has overclocking feature and under the quad core column.... quad cores is not check for overclocking