Hello there, I recently built a new system. It's one of my first builds (my second to be exact) and I don't want to take too many risks with voltages and overclocking (I am hoping to get the CPU to 3 Ghz though). Unfortunately, my system appears to be under-voltaging my components. I installed Ntune, and this is what it said: It's showing that the components are being overstressed (it also shows the wrong CPU and memory clocks, they are actually 1066 Mhz FSB, 2.4 Ghz CPU core, and 800 Mhz memory). These are the default voltages. I've had some issues with instability in the past several hours, and I'm REALLY worried. What should the correct voltages be? My system: An EVGA nForce 780i motherboard An EVGA 8800 GTS 512 An Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2GB of Corsair Ballistix DDR2 800 RAM (PC 6400) A Thermaltake Toughpower 700W PSU A 250GB Seagate Barracuda SATA Hard Drive A Lite On DVD+/-RW Drive An Antec Nine Hundred Case A Zalman 9500A CPU Cooler Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit Thank you for any advice you might have.
ok ok ok.... 1- When you build your computer.. you use default settings at first... you make sure everything is 100% fine, as OC'ing means losing warranty, so if anything is wrong you can RMA the broken part. 2- You test to see if your system runs smooth, and survive stress testing for several hours. Making sure nothing crashes. 3- When everything is fine (several days later) THEN you can start OC if you want. As you will see how your system lose stability during OC, and perform adjustments. Only pros (not me), that has a full detail understanding on how a computer works, that they can properly OC a computer at the second run (right after confirming that everything is fine). You can't just do it like that. 4- Nvidia monitor are not to be trusted... yea I have an Nforce 2 and 4, and I can tell you that Nvidia is only good at making motherboard chipset and GPU's, Oh and sound card chip (Sound Storm?!). However, it's is sad, and a bit hard to understand why, but their software is not their strong point. On my Nforce 2, supposedly have Nvidia Firewall... well it doesn't... and on my Nforce 4... works great if you are lucky enough to get one of the few motherboards that can make it works fine. However if you put a router, your get a BSOD in Windows. That is why it was dropped, and never looked at again. Same comes with Nvidia Monitor... on my Nforce 2, it shows that my CPU takes 1500.0V WOW! (I think it is supposed to be 1.5V), and on my Nforce 4, some data is missing. So use a proper software, like Everest, CPUZ and what the BIOS information page shows you. If the other software's shows you the same results then yes something is defiantly wrong.
have you actually overclocked it at this point? reason I ask is that the q6600 should have a stock Front Side Bus (FSB) of 266 but if the program you used is correct, its actually set at 289. In case you are wondering, I got that by taking the cpu core of 2601 and devided it by 9 to get the fsb. 9 is the stock multiplier of the q6600. multiplier x fsb = cpu core and to back that up, your ram is set at a ratio of 3:1 (or 1:3, whichever) so the speed of the ram, 867mhz / 3(the ratio the ram is running at) = 289fsb anyway, point of all that is just to point out that your system is not running at stock speeds and you should lower the fsb to 266 in the bios if you want to run it at stock for now. As for voltage, the cpu and memory look about right to me. what makes you think they are too low?
