Issue with tape mod not functioning while CPU stays below 50°C.
Issue with tape mod not functioning while CPU stays below 50°C.
I just upgraded from my Pentium D 925 to the Q6600 mainly because of the tape mod that claimed a 3 ghz boost from 2.4 ghz. The BIOS on this motherboard is quite outdated, dating back to 2006, so I’m unsure if there’s a setting to adjust the FSB like other guides suggest. Also, it seems the board is locked and I can’t perform an OC. According to the stress test, the core temperature never exceeded 50°C, though the max reported was 100°C—maybe that’s not accurate.
There is no official Intel chipset from 2006 that supported 1333FSB, though versions like 963/965 and the even earlier 975x might be possible to overclock if you adjusted the BIOS settings. If you're attempting to overclock an OEM board, official support for that specific FSB is necessary. Your board includes a Pentium 4 (which stopped supporting speeds above C2 at 800FSB), so running a C2 Q at stock 1066 speed makes sense—most P4 chipsets couldn't go beyond C2 at that time.
I don’t know where the BSEL mod applies on the q6600. I recall using a Dell OEM board with DDR3 at 800MHz, and changing the tape mode raised it to 1066MHz. With a 3GHz CPU clock, some boards didn’t work, possibly due to FSB limitations. It’s been a while since I worked on a q6600 system, so I might be mistaken. I remember trying to remove a small piece of tape with shaky hands.