Q6600 troubles :(

I was told that the P45 motherboards were the best boards for clocking Quads so I was looking at getting that motherboard a few days ago, I'm torn between that Gigabyte or the Asus P5Q Pro Turbo. I'm swaying towards the Gigabyte board because I've been using them for years and have never had any issues with them what so ever! Well, apart from my current Motherboard not clocking as much as I'd like! :p but that's not really a technical fault as such!

I'd be looking to get at least 3.5GHz out of my Q6600, do you think your motherboard could handle those clocks? If it could I'd be more tempted towards the Gigabyte :) be great if you could find out and let me know! :)
 
toM123 said:
Have you got a fan on the northbridge? It gets extremely hot without one and could be a reason the FSB won't go higher.
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I've got a Noctua northbridge cooler on it, it hasn't got a fan on it but it never gets as hot as the original heatsink, that one used to burn me! :p The Noctua is only slightly warm to the touch.
 
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I was told that the P45 motherboards were the best boards for clocking Quads so I was looking at getting that motherboard a few days ago, I'm torn between that Gigabyte or the Asus P5Q Pro Turbo. I'm swaying towards the Gigabyte board because I've been using them for years and have never had any issues with them what so ever! Well, apart from my current Motherboard not clocking as much as I'd like! but that's not really a technical fault as such!

I'd be looking to get at least 3.5GHz out of my Q6600, do you think your motherboard could handle those clocks? If it could I'd be more tempted towards the Gigabyte be great if you could find out and let me know!



To be honest i'm happy at 3.4, i know that the Q6600 is stable at that speed, although my mate has his at 3.5 with an Asus board, so i know at some point in the future i am going to clock it just to beat him, which by then my pc will probably go bang!!!

But i am pretty confident that my mobo would defo clock to 3.5, like i said i hit it straight off with a 3.2, a little later i turned it up to 3.4 with no problems at all.

I don't think you'll go too far wrong if you do decide to buy another mobo albeit Asus or Gigabyte, if i had the extra cash it would have been the deluxe, but i am more than happy with this one, it has some great features and very easy bios update tools.
 
But why buy a new board for a potentially meager gain? You'll likely at best do 3.6-3.7 which is still a hit and miss affair, quite likely it'll do more like 3.4GHz. Anything that uses the quads potential will decimate the E6600 you had there even with a 500MHz lead.
 
Yeah but if he wants to go to 3.5 he'll need to spend as his board will only let his chip clock to 3.

Better to clock with a mobo that is capable of clocking higher than to max out on a board and suffer in the long run i say.
 
That DS3 i've got at 3.2Ghz with the Q6600 was hardly under any strain and has been running the G0 since almost the week it was released over here, only moved it to a P5K-E when i sold it to a mate last December. I don't think its so much the power regulators as its the chipset itself, 500mhz, which is not guaranteed anyhow as it depends on the chip is hardly worth the money in my book. Rather start saving up for a real performance jump, i.e i7 or whatever is available when funds are.
 
I would rather oc my chip to a speed that is higher than a stock i chip, instead of buying an i chip, saves loads of money in the end, the way intel are just throwing out chips like the i7 920, you can now buy the i7 930 which is cheaper than the 920 and faster, intel im my opinion are treating the market like nvidia and ati are, just throwing chips and gpu's at us like kids in a snowball fight, one day you have the best chip or card, next day something bigger and quicker has come out from the same company for less money.

I say buy a new mobo for 80 quid, clock the Q6600 to 3.5 as it still is one of the best bang per buck chip to own, then maybe a year or 2 later upgrade to an i chip when things have slowed down.

If that ever happens lol!!
 
I couldnt get past 3Ghz on my old Nforce Sli motherboard, totally rubbish.
Now I have P45Q Pro and it sits at 3.6Ghz nicely. Also, the same motherboard took my old Dual Core 5200 to 4Ghz, but not stable.
 
Even for a stock 920 you'd probably be looking at a 4Ghz+ overclock on a Q6600 to come close. Not likely.

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But cost wise your talking about a good 1200 quid plus to upgrade to i7 chip, it's nearly 900 quid just for a stock speed chip @3.3 ghz, i know the overclock will be high end 4's but then depending on what he's got already, ddr3 ram isn't cheap, let alone a decent mobo, cooler, psu etc...so cost effective it would be cheaper for now for him to buy an 80 quid mobo ond oc to 3.5 ghz which he requires.

Nearly all the games about now are playable on a chip at 3.4 ghz, havent seen many that require a cpu to be higher.
 
 
those pesky 45 boards when i got i got my E6600 on a 680i board it would only clock to about 3.4 GHZ but board went the way of the dodo. brought a cheap gigabyte board Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4 (Socket 775) and it clocked to 4Ghz goes to show think the first chipsets where the best and nothing was really gained by going for bells and whistles lol
 
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