Overclocking geekyness
Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 7:17 pm
So I upgraded to an ASUS P5Q motherboard from a P5K over the weekend. I know it's old tech but it's still quick enough for office and HTPC duties for me 
On my old P5K I could get a max of 3.0GHz out of my Intel Q6600 Core 2 Quad (2.4GHz standard).
P5Q stable: 400 x 9 = 3.6GHz @ 1.38v on AIR and with a phat cooler and a silent 1200RPM CPU fan! Was well pleased... 50+GFlops
Had to throttle it back to 3.5GHz @ 1.34v tho - temps got a bit silly under full load stress testing. Could probably get 4GHz out of that chip with watercooling and maybe a P5Q Deluxe.
Since the P5Q comes with Intel RAID on board I thought it would be rude not to... 2 SSD's... RAID0... Any guesses which SSD's (hint - old tech as well)?

Maxed out SATAII!

On my old P5K I could get a max of 3.0GHz out of my Intel Q6600 Core 2 Quad (2.4GHz standard).
P5Q stable: 400 x 9 = 3.6GHz @ 1.38v on AIR and with a phat cooler and a silent 1200RPM CPU fan! Was well pleased... 50+GFlops

Had to throttle it back to 3.5GHz @ 1.34v tho - temps got a bit silly under full load stress testing. Could probably get 4GHz out of that chip with watercooling and maybe a P5Q Deluxe.
Since the P5Q comes with Intel RAID on board I thought it would be rude not to... 2 SSD's... RAID0... Any guesses which SSD's (hint - old tech as well)?

Maxed out SATAII!