Hi im new here and was thinking about overclock my old q6600 run on just an Air heat sink. I was wondering if anyone had any ideas about how i could go about this??
Thank you in advance.
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Hi im new here and was thinking about overclock my old q6600 run on just an Air heat sink. I was wondering if anyone had any ideas about how i could go about this??
Thank you in advance.
It would help to know what motherboard and RAM you have and possibly what power supply as well.
Sorry I have an Asus P5N-E SLI with default bios version 1004, 4 gig of DDR2 PC2-4300. The PSU is a 400w FSP-60GLN.
Cpu core speed is currently set at 1600MHZ bus is at 266.6 FSB is at 1066.7 multiper is on x6
Can't think of anything else you might need.
Multiplier is on 6, have you set this yourself or is that the Intel Speed-Step speed it reports when your not doing anything in Windows ?
Your RAM speed is going to limit your overclock because when you increase the CPU bus speed (266MHz currently) the RAM speed will increase as does the FSB(less of a problem in this case).
Anyway, there nothing to stop you highering the CPU bus speed a few MHz and seeing how far you can get, does your Bios allow you to change the voltage of some components such as the DRAM and CPU etc ?