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Originally Posted by Skyllz  Seems stable so far, did the 378X8, shut down, cool down for an hour and it booted right away.
We'll see how the night will go. |
I have a couple of P5K SE boards and used to have an E1200 in one of them. I had a similar circumstance where I could OC to a nice stable Prime95/Orthos level but if I ever had to do a restart on the computer (say, after a Windows update) it would not restart. I would need to go into BIOS, not change anything, and then save it, and everything would be fine ???
I think that there is a quick check that the board runs through upon restarting and sometimes the OC would trip it up. I think that you do need to adjust settings to get it stable not only in the OS but also to pass the BIOS POST test.
All that being said, I did notice that the Vdroop on this board is horrible compared to my P5K-E board. Are you measuring the voltages on the core, NB, and SB under load to make sure they are good levels? The Q6600 is a trickier OC than my E8xxx CPU's. They produce a LOT of heat (especially B3 stepping. Do you have B3 or G0 stepping? ) when overclocked so watch the temps under load. I am watercooled and hitting low 50's under Prime95.
You will also discover a steep wall at some point in the OC. I can hit 440X8=3520 on 1.39V (load) but to get FSB to 450X8=3600 I need to add a ton more volts. About 1.48V to get it stable and temps climb into the 60's. So I am happy to keep it at 3520, sacrifice 80MHz and run nice and cool at safe volts.
Not sure if this really helps you but good luck with the OC. If you are G0 stepping and half decent cooling you should be able to get up past 3.2GHz I would think. The Freezer 7 is a capable heatsink but I got huge improvements by lapping it (when I had one). Also watch your memory divider to keep your ram at stable frequencies.