Q6600 G0 help for getting past 3.0Ghz

[Xristoforator]

Hello friends, im new to your forums although ive been watching linus youtube channels for a long time now. this is my first post so please bare with me 

 

I recently got my hands on my old desktop since i have 0 money to upgrade to anything. trying to overclock my q6600 past 3.0gz but it just dont want to happen. i would really much appreciate any help.

CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad q6600 G0 stepping B  (running under a Cooler Master Hyper 412s  Aircooler)
MOBO: ASUS P5B Vanilla

RAM: 3x 2GB Mushkin XP2-8500 1066Mhz

GPU: ASUS GTX 770 DirectCU 2  (2GB)

PSU: Thermaltake Toughpower 750w Gold

 

[dragoon20005]

summoning the help of @harrynowl @Jumper118

 

 

but i think it because of your mobo

 

because the mobo you have is only a 1066MHz FSB mobo

 

to clock up to 3GHz

 

the FSB need to go up to 1333MHz

 

 

you might need to change the mobo to something at least a P35 or P41 chipset

[Clyne]

3 minutes ago, dragoon20005 said:

summoning the help of @harrynowl @Jumper118

 

 

but i think it because of your mobo

 

because the mobo you have is only a 1066MHz FSB mobo

 

to clock up to 3GHz

 

the FSB need to go up to 1333MHz

 

 

you might need to change the mobo to something at least a P35 or P41 chipset

If it was a P5B Deluxe then it'd be possible for 3GHZ+..

But yeah it's most likely the FSB support, you could just OC RAM now since can't get far with FSB.

 My 680i board still acts like crap and somehow can't OC at all...got it up to 3.3GHZ once and never seen a OC again...

[harrynowl]

Either more NB volts. Or bad NB wall. @bubblewhale 680i SLI is junk for quads and not much better for duals.

[Xristoforator]

Thanks for the repies guys.. i know this mobo sucks bad.. for many reasons, i even realised it has pci-e v1.0 for crying out loud.. i used to own a p5n32-e SLI but it died.. and got the cheapest lga 775 i could.. anyway.. my real prob is that the cpu bottlenecks the hell in rise of the tomb raider and assassins creed syndicate