C2Q Q6600 "GO Stepping" now available at OcUK!

Alex UK · 19 Jul 2007 at 16:22

Although labelled as "Energy Efficient 95W Edition", this is in fact the GO stepping we have all been waiting for. It's a £10 premium over the standard Q6600, although well worth it in my opinion.

Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail

So...who's ordering one?

melbourne720 · 19 Jul 2007 at 16:28

Gibbo says no eta at the moment, but these are G0 stepping :cool:

Yes, I will be ordering one as soon as they have an eta.

djay · 19 Jul 2007 at 16:37

Yep, i shall order once they are in.

Ross1234 · 19 Jul 2007 at 16:40

What is the G0 stepping?

truebluecfc · 19 Jul 2007 at 16:40

Yep same, cant wait

BlastRadius · 19 Jul 2007 at 16:41

Wonder if they are still bundling supreme commander with it? Says so on the description.

melbourne720 · 19 Jul 2007 at 16:47

Ross1234 said:
What is the G0 stepping?

These chips run on less power, produce less heat and therefore can be overclocked more.

The main problem with regular quads is that to be overclocked to 3-3.5GHz they need water, or high end air and a tolerance for noise/temps. G0 resolves this.

BlastRadius said:
Wonder if they are still bundling supreme commander with it? Says so on the description.

I would have thought you could argue trade descriptions that it should

Tomsk · 19 Jul 2007 at 17:05

BlastRadius said:
Wonder if they are still bundling supreme commander with it? Says so on the description.

It says "whilst stock last". Given that this offer was for the older stepping and they've sold out, it's unlikely that any new stock will have the freebie, but you can always hope.

BTW I was one the lucky few who got one from their existing stock. I should receive it tomorrow and I'll let you guys know whether or not I got Sup-Com with it.

chaparral · 19 Jul 2007 at 17:10

Alex UK said:
C2Q Q6600 "GO Stepping" now available at OcUK!

How could you of missed the blue writing that says Pre-order :confused:

Nogimmix · 19 Jul 2007 at 17:13

chaparral said:
How could you of missed the blue writing that says Pre-order

Very true

Be nice to know when they will be ready to ship.

Alex UK · 19 Jul 2007 at 17:22

chaparral said:
How could you of missed the blue writing that says Pre-order

I'm aware that it is for pre-order, I was therefore notifying people that it was 'available' to pre-order.

doodah · 19 Jul 2007 at 17:32

How much can you sell a 6300 for? Would it be worth upgrading from one @ 3.15Ghz (prob room for more) to one of these? Using GeIL PC6400C4 800MHz ULL and Gigabyte DS3

Alex UK · 19 Jul 2007 at 17:37

dbappa said:
How much can you sell a 6300 for? Would it be worth upgrading from one @ 3.15Ghz (prob room for more) to one of these? Using GeIL PC6400C4 800MHz ULL and Gigabyte DS3

You could probably sell a E6300 for £40 - £50, though I may be wrong. That would leave you with £140 - £150 to pay for the Q6600 GO. Personally, if I already had a C2D, I would wait until the end of the year or so and upgrade to Penryn. A E6300 certainly isn't obsolete yet.

fornowagain · 19 Jul 2007 at 17:37

melbourne720 said:
These chips run on less power, produce less heat and therefore can be overclocked more.

The main problem with regular quads is that to be overclocked to 3-3.5GHz they need water, or high end air and a tolerance for noise/temps. G0 resolves this.

Wow, 10w TDP resolves all that, amazing.

Just for a laugh, calculated the difference 10W off a Q6600s TDP makes from stock.

250Mhz or
0.06v vcore

That equates to a 1.8C drop with a typical HSF of about 0.18 C/W.

Theoretically with a the same HSF (20C ambient), a B3 step at 3.6GHz/1.45V uses 203W, 56.5C. A G0 at 3.6GHz/1.45V would use 184W, 53C. Now if it does overclock better and shows a (-10W TDP) 0.06v lower core voltage. Then a G0 at 3.6GHz/1.39V uses 169W, 50.4C. Nice, bit not earth shattering.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=151772

doodah · 19 Jul 2007 at 17:44

Alex UK said:
You could probably sell a E6300 for £40 - £50, though I may be wrong. That would leave you with £140 - £150 to pay for the Q6600 GO. Personally, if I already had a C2D, I would wait until the end of the year or so and upgrade to Penryn. A E6300 certainly isn't obsolete yet.

Screw it, will try and get more out of this one and get a DX10 when loan comes in. Ta

Cotti · 19 Jul 2007 at 18:09

Tomsk said:
It says "whilst stock last". Given that this offer was for the older stepping and they've sold out, it's unlikely that any new stock will have the freebie, but you can always hope.

BTW I was one the lucky few who got one from their existing stock. I should receive it tomorrow and I'll let you guys know whether or not I got Sup-Com with it.

Picked mine up this afternoon m8 and I did get SC

psychas · 19 Jul 2007 at 18:20

will the difference will be noticed ? might change mine

Vanilla · 19 Jul 2007 at 18:22

I'll get one of these.

Should make my ePenis significantly larger.

Cotti · 19 Jul 2007 at 19:28

dunno if my e-penis is any bigger but my new rig just quadrupled my 3dMark06 score

Now where the hell is Crysis???????

Alex UK · 19 Jul 2007 at 19:44

Cotti said:
dunno if my e-penis is any bigger but my new rig just quadrupled my 3dMark06 score

Now where the hell is Crysis???????

I presume the spec in your sig isn't your new system?