Re: OC Help: 3.58GHz Q6600 & EP45-UD3P
wchp, it is good to leave voltage settings to Auto for your first boot. However, motherboards tend to over-compensate voltages when you leave some voltages on Auto. Even when testing the "Quick Boost" Easy Tune 6, for example, the majority of my voltages for 3.2, 3.44, and 3.52 were automatically set much higher than what was required.
Reason, your video card could be running hotter due to an increase in overall case temperature when you're stress testing with P95. If you're a gamer, you may want to look into an upgrade as well. There are many options and good video card deals around, just make sure you keep temps, power consumption, and, possibly, noise, in mind. I originally had a 4870 1GB for my system, but I'm switching to a GTX 280. The 4870 vram heat issues are too much for my setup.
I'm at 16.5 hours P95 stable at 3.2GHz with C1E, EIST, and Gigabyte DES enabled (CPU Throttling in DES is enabled as well, although I'm not sure if that has any affect).
wchp, it is good to leave voltage settings to Auto for your first boot. However, motherboards tend to over-compensate voltages when you leave some voltages on Auto. Even when testing the "Quick Boost" Easy Tune 6, for example, the majority of my voltages for 3.2, 3.44, and 3.52 were automatically set much higher than what was required.
Reason, your video card could be running hotter due to an increase in overall case temperature when you're stress testing with P95. If you're a gamer, you may want to look into an upgrade as well. There are many options and good video card deals around, just make sure you keep temps, power consumption, and, possibly, noise, in mind. I originally had a 4870 1GB for my system, but I'm switching to a GTX 280. The 4870 vram heat issues are too much for my setup.
I'm at 16.5 hours P95 stable at 3.2GHz with C1E, EIST, and Gigabyte DES enabled (CPU Throttling in DES is enabled as well, although I'm not sure if that has any affect).
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