mackbolan
12-07-2010, 04:30 AM
I don't know if I'm in the right spot but here it is. I bought the above board,installed my 8gb ddr2 800 basic ram,my q6600,disabled all the power saving stuff,etc. Tried to oc by 10% via bios,works for an hour or 2 then freezes,temps are fine. Tried the windows utility,same thing. tried manually OC'ing by just unlinking the ram so it stays at 800 & put the fsb at 1333 for 3ghz, fails to post message. So i reset to stock & tried increasing the core voltage to what spec says on intels site,board seems to run it at less. Tried setting the memory to spec,wants to run 6-6-6-34 instead of 18,set ram voltage to 1.85(only choice,mine is 1.8 by spec),left nb & sb at stock voltage. What am I doing wrong? Aside from ever trying the utility. All I want is 3.0ghz,this cpu can go way higher,but I need stability not numbers. I built a unit for a customer with a lesser asus board,P45g41-m, E5300, & set it to 3.1 with regular ddr2 800(4gb), & the thing's still running for a year without a burp. Why is this being so difficult? I can even decrease my multiplier if needed. I've read some posts online that say to de-clock the ram to 667 or 533 to achieve the 3ghz level. I have the "good" q6600 G0 chip. If someone could smack me upside the head & tell me what to set to what I'd be very greatfull! All ram is kingston except one supertalent but they have the same spec, 1.8v,6-6-6-18 @ 400,all 2gb modules. Bios is the latest. No heat issues at all,700w antec psu,win 7 x64 os. OS dosen't really matter as it won't get there over a 10% oc. I think the way the oc works is it increases ram & pcie speed with the cpu,which I've found increasing the pcie is not a good thing. One last issue is the disc performance in raid0 has dropped from my last board(Dell xps 410 intel raid),348mb/sec,Dell was 450mb/sec. Same drives,2 500gb segate 16mb cache sata 2's. Now I'm running all auto,no power saving crap in bios or windows, 2.4ghz steady,no throttling. Sure it's faster than Dell(no pun,lol), but I really wanted to see 3.0ghz out of this. I even tried different ratios,5:3,1:1,etc. The video card is an xfx radeon hd 5750 @ 800/1350 full fan,catalyst 10.11. I mean at 10% & a freeze,i might be inclined to think it's that one supertalent stick,but I kinda doubt it. :rolleyes: