How to Overclock your Q6600 to 3.2GHz

Step by step instructions on how to overclock your Q6600 to 3.2GHz on a Gigabyte EP35-DS3

Remmeber that I don't take any responses if your computer become damaged becuse of this modification.
It works on my, but thats doesn't means that it will works on yours!

My Setup:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3
nVIDIA GeForce 9800GTX




I'll upload a part 2 of this on a couple of days and it will handle about stress testing and how the temperatures changes.

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• q6600
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• duo
• quad
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• stress
• test
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• temperature
• gigabyte
• ep35-ds3
• p35

[Arkwite]

Do I need Liquid cooling for 3.2 ghz? Or will a neat fan do?

Stock fan won't do, right?

[MrVojne]

@Arkwite Do I need Liquid cooling for 3.2 ghz? NO

Or will a neat fan do? I recommend a non-standard fan, but it will probably also work with a standard fan.

Stock fan won't do, right? Already answered that question!

[lordrevan1928]

If I have a liquid cooling system will it overheat with this overclock? I have the exact same CPU.

[MrVojne]

@lordrevan1928 no, you wont

[carllewis1966]

I agree with CazDog about the music nearly jumped out my window 3 floors up after watching this

[TheNiceguy1212]

Who's the artist of this song?

[kaloryfer99999]

"memory of type 6400" what memory are you talking about ? RAM ?

[klawklaus]

How the overclocking affected your gaming performance? Did you get higher fps in games? I also have a q6600 G0 and a HD4850. I don't want to change my video card until the new series of HD7000 or nvidia600 comes out. An overclocking would do for now. What cpu cooler should i buy for overclocking to AT LEAST 3,2 ghz?

[CHazDoG100]

music drove me fucking insane

[trith72]

@CoreMaster111 That sounds about right for that VID. That's almost exactly what mine's on and it runs just fine, never goes over about 65C even under max load.

[123backinyerface]

@weenershnitzel336 As long as your Q6600 is of the G0 stepping, a 2.8Ghz OC will be quite safe for stock cooling. Set your FSB to 400, drop your CPU multiplier to x7, RAM ratio to 2.00, MANUALLY set your CPU voltage to its "normal" value, DONT just leave it on 'auto'. Then reboot and try some stress tests, if you get errors or crashes then add 1 notch on your CPU voltage and try again, don't go over 0.5v higher than your 'normal' value, if temps are under 65C at 100% CPU, you're fine.