is the ASUS P5N-E SLI a good board to OC the Q6600?

ExoMale · 9 Jan 2018 at 22:35

and is the Q6600 even worth putting an overclock still?

i know its old and ive mentioned this quad before from a vague memory, but i picked up a computer for £5 earlier that only needed a psu and hard drive which happened to have said board, the quad, 2gb ram & i believe an 8500gt, i got it because i wanted to test out my 6870 again which is proper dead and for hard drive storage, ideally i needed a micro-atx board for a fix 'a' upper Icute cube case(lcd screen and opens like a sandwich) i got the other day for £5 which im going to build either a replacement for my lenovo or a 2nd system, but im just thinking to make the most of this system till i can get a smaller board, but obviously i dont want to screw parts i could salvage and my last quad was the 9300 which was weak along with its board.

Rroff · 9 Jan 2018 at 22:41

IIRC it will struggle to supply enough current to get a Q6600 stable past ~3GHz.

Those boards were generally pretty meh and best disposed of more often than not in my experience.

ExoMale · 9 Jan 2018 at 22:50

ah right fair enough, guess i shouldnt waste my time then even if 3ghz is a good number, i know there was only certain boards of its era that was good for overclocking, obviously cant pick and choose when buying used, i just wondered being an sli supported board there might be some worth while features, its probably my 3rd of a similar board ive ever had and at those times i wasnt bothered about overclocking.

FlyingScotsman · 10 Jan 2018 at 10:45

Rroff said:
IIRC it will struggle to supply enough current to get a Q6600 stable past ~3GHz.

Those boards were generally pretty meh and best disposed of more often than not in my experience.

I actually had one of these boards and it could do 3.4Ghz on a Q6600 dont know where you are getting this from.

Rroff · 10 Jan 2018 at 15:15

FlyingScotsman said:
I actually had one of these boards and it could do 3.4Ghz on a Q6600 dont know where you are getting this from.

There are a couple of past threads on them - I briefly had the Striker Extreme and P5N32-E SLI variants in a mess of RMAs before giving up on them. Occasionally someone got a good board but generally they suffered significant stability issues especially with higher clocked quads.

FlyingScotsman · 10 Jan 2018 at 15:28

Rroff said:
There are a couple of past threads on them - I briefly had the Striker Extreme and P5N32-E SLI variants in a mess of RMAs before giving up on them. Occasionally someone got a good board but generally they suffered significant stability issues especially with higher clocked quads.

I am sure I could get suicide runs of 3.6 with my G0 Q6600 for benchies, albeit it was under water then.
That was the nforce chipset if I am not mistaken?

Rroff · 10 Jan 2018 at 15:50

Think I've said about those boards in a thread in the past when people have found them in old machines, etc. you have to try them really - some good but a lot of bad examples of the board.

Not sure the Q6600 G0 knew what a suicide run was really

I was never able to kill one - including running one at 1.65V (max in the voltage table) 24x7 for ~2 years running stuff like SETI and folding and video encoding runs, etc. when needed - its still working fine at stock in a relatives machine today.

mattyfez · 10 Jan 2018 at 18:58

My q6000 g0 ran at 3.4ghz for years on an Asus pk5c. It's still in service as far as I know, gave it to a friend a couple of years back.

Edit.. Oh that's an nvidia chipset, they were always a bit iffy.. the Intel p35 chipset is what you want for that cpu really.

Hedge · 10 Jan 2018 at 20:31

Oh wow this thread has brought up memories! I had that board for years!

FlyingScotsman · 11 Jan 2018 at 07:22

Rroff said:
Think I've said about those boards in a thread in the past when people have found them in old machines, etc. you have to try them really - some good but a lot of bad examples of the board.

Not sure the Q6600 G0 knew what a suicide run was really I was never able to kill one - including running one at 1.65V (max in the voltage table) 24x7 for ~2 years running stuff like SETI and folding and video encoding runs, etc. when needed - its still working fine at stock in a relatives machine today.

Yeah mine is still happily plodding away in a matx board I have in my bedroom, for streaming plex and running kodi, its not missed a beat!!!

FlyingScotsman · 11 Jan 2018 at 07:24

Edit.. Oh that's an nvidia chipset, they were always a bit iffy.. the Intel p35 chipset is what you want for that cpu really.[/QUOTE]

mattyfez said:
My q6000 g0 ran at 3.4ghz for years on an Asus pk5c. It's still in service as far as I know, gave it to a friend a couple of years back.

Edit.. Oh that's an nvidia chipset, they were always a bit iffy.. the Intel p35 chipset is what you want for that cpu really.

Yip thats exactly what its running on now, sitting pretty at 3.3 with air cooling on a matx board. The good old days

ExoMale · 11 Jan 2018 at 13:57

interesting responses, good that people still talk about the old stuff.

before i even attempt to overclock on this board i will need a better cooler and one i havent broken the clips on ha, im not looking to go crazy, i still need it to be dependable as my storage option when i set it up and generally run, but do want to have some fun with it, i just wish it wasnt an atx board so then i couldve cracked on with my cube build.