Hi, everyone, wanted to share a strange experience I had with my board and ask someone to give me some insight.
I purchased Q6600 and P35-DS4 based on all the reviews and it's overclocking potential. I went all out and am running it in Antec P182 with Corsair 520HX, XFX 7600GT, and 8GB of OCZ DDR2 800Mhz SLI ready ram.
When I run it at clock setting, everything is well. But, It would not overclock at all even at a moderate 333Mhz FSB speed. I tried 3 sets of RAM modules, another Q6600, changed out the PSU, and the same.
Today, I went through all the BIOS settings, and disabled USB Mouse support (Computer was always freezing right after RAM post, so i figured something was interfering with the boot process). Guess what? I can comfortably go up to 3.6GHz with stock voltage. And with my Thermalright Ultima 90, it passes 8 hours of prime95 test with max load temperture at 57C.
I am back down to 3.2GHz and the chip is running on 1.24V stably although my VID is 1.325V.
Has anyone had any experience with this USB Mouse Support in the bios preventing any form of overclocking? I don't know why that would? And also wondering if my motherboard is defective?
Any help would be greatly appreciated from a fellow P35 comrade.
Thanks in advance.
Theo
I purchased Q6600 and P35-DS4 based on all the reviews and it's overclocking potential. I went all out and am running it in Antec P182 with Corsair 520HX, XFX 7600GT, and 8GB of OCZ DDR2 800Mhz SLI ready ram.
When I run it at clock setting, everything is well. But, It would not overclock at all even at a moderate 333Mhz FSB speed. I tried 3 sets of RAM modules, another Q6600, changed out the PSU, and the same.
Today, I went through all the BIOS settings, and disabled USB Mouse support (Computer was always freezing right after RAM post, so i figured something was interfering with the boot process). Guess what? I can comfortably go up to 3.6GHz with stock voltage. And with my Thermalright Ultima 90, it passes 8 hours of prime95 test with max load temperture at 57C.
I am back down to 3.2GHz and the chip is running on 1.24V stably although my VID is 1.325V.
Has anyone had any experience with this USB Mouse Support in the bios preventing any form of overclocking? I don't know why that would? And also wondering if my motherboard is defective?
Any help would be greatly appreciated from a fellow P35 comrade.
Thanks in advance.
Theo