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mystikl

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I bought a used Q6600 G0 today, and tried overclocking it on a Gigabyte p31-ds3l board. It just does not want to OC. The BIOS shows that it is overclocked every time I check the settings but in Windows it has stock speed.
I have the f2 BIOS revision for the board which is supposed to work with the Q6600 and on the same board I managed to take a e2180 up to 3.4 GHz so I'm drawing a blank here. What am I doing wrong?
 
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CPU-Z

ignore windows system info, it can mis-read depending on how you o/c
 
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Video Card(s) HD 7750
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Forgot to mention that's what I used to check the OC in windows.
 
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Memory 12Gb DDR3 1600MHz 7-7-7-20-1T
Video Card(s) 2x HD7950OC 3072MB @ 1050/1600
Storage Corsair sandforce F40 and Force3 128Gb
Display(s) 28" 1920X1200
Case it's a box, I shit you not! an actual BOX! (for now)
Audio Device(s) Creative X-Fi Titanium
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Benchmark Scores meh!
so you're cpu is stepping do default, try cpu-z and run prime95 or similar to stress the cpu into stepping up.

If that fails to report you're o/c then you aren't o/cing
 
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Memory ZEPPELIN 2X2 GB DDR2 800 4-4-4-12
Video Card(s) HD 7750
Storage Seagate Barracuda 1TB
Power Supply Antec EA380
Software WIN 7
Did some thinking, and remembered I should probably clear the CMOS so I did just that and it's working now. I managed to get 3 GHz on 1.34V in BIOS , 1.28-1.296V reported in cpuz. Haven't checked stability yet. Tanks for taking the time to post.
 
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