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Defiant306

Defiant306

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Ok so this is my current spec:

Q6600 Stock
Asus Blitz formula (P35)
4x 1GB Crucial PC8500 DDR2
8800GTX OC2 765MB

I mostly play World of warcraft with other games like Supreme Commander, I want to play Crysis and other newer games. But I display them on a 24" Dell 2407WFPmonitor at 1920x1200. I dont want to run the resolution at less so I'm considering an upgrade.

My PSU is more than capable at 720W (Enermax Infiniti EIN720AWT) so I'm going to base an upgrade on a 4870x2 card when they hit soon. But from some threads on various sites the advice is that a PCIE 1.1 board with a slow CPU will throttle this cards performance.

I think my Q6600 has more to give, its currently being cooled by a Thermaltake Big Typ VX. My CPU seems to be idling at 50 degrees in windows which is being reported by CoreTemp 0.99.
Seems a bit high for idle, but it got worse with Prime95 where the hotest core was reported as 85 degrees.
WOW even when being used fully to the point the FPS drops isnt making the CPU go above about 65-68 degrees though.
I'm a bit worried that if I over clock the Q6600 it will not last long. When I play WOW I raid in high end 25 man instances where I can see frame rates drop to 10-15fps. So I'm looking to increase that.

So really I'm looking for advice on what to do now, also I run a dual monitor setup
 
Defiant306 said:
Ok so this is my current spec:

Q6600 Stock
Asus Blitz formula (P35)
4x 1GB Crucial PC8500 DDR2
8800GTX OC2 765MB

I mostly play World of warcraft with other games like Supreme Commander, I want to play Crysis and other newer games. But I display them on a 24" Dell 2407WFPmonitor at 1920x1200. I dont want to run the resolution at less so I'm considering an upgrade.

My PSU is more than capable at 720W (Enermax Infiniti EIN720AWT) so I'm going to base an upgrade on a 4870x2 card when they hit soon. But from some threads on various sites the advice is that a PCIE 1.1 board with a slow CPU will throttle this cards performance.

I think my Q6600 has more to give, its currently being cooled by a Thermaltake Big Typ VX. My CPU seems to be idling at 50 degrees in windows which is being reported by CoreTemp 0.99.
Seems a bit high for idle, but it got worse with Prime95 where the hotest core was reported as 85 degrees.
WOW even when being used fully to the point the FPS drops isnt making the CPU go above about 65-68 degrees though.
I'm a bit worried that if I over clock the Q6600 it will not last long. When I play WOW I raid in high end 25 man instances where I can see frame rates drop to 10-15fps. So I'm looking to increase that.

So really I'm looking for advice on what to do now, also I run a dual monitor setup
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Those temps seem high for a non-overclocked Q6600, assuming you have reasonable cooling in the rest of your case. If it was mine, I would double check that the push-pins were fully located, but anyway I would be taking it out and re-applying OCZ Freeze compund or similar, and see if it helped. If it didn't, might be worth looking at a Tuniq Tower, or the TT Ultra 120A; they seem to the most popular HSF on here.

You should be able to clock it to 3-3.6 Ghz, going by these forums, if it's the G0 stepping.
 
GO 95 watt version in a Lian Li PC16B, got a third of the case front open and a 120mm fan/hd assembly.
I think it may not be helping.
 
85c in prime ?
68c in WoW?
10-15FPS IN WOW!?!?!

Sorry for the words but something is seriously FU**ED UP with your system, and that's a big time.
 
Hi I was looking for advice on what to do over all, not on the state of my cpu temps, if you have no useful advice keep it to yourself thanks.
The cooler is installed right, if I tighten the mounts anymore I will start to bend the motherboard. Also I applied a thin spread of artic silver over the whole core for an even spread making sure I used just enough to coat it.
I also gave the coolers surface a quick bur with my dremal.
 
Well I didnt state I lapped it, I'm fully aware of lapping. I didnt intend to lapp it, I wanted to remove the crap on the surface of the cooler only so it was clean after using some sprits to clean it off any contaminates.
Anyway I will remove and try reapplying the cooler with new paste, the problem is the coolers size, Lian Li god aweful way of removing the motherboard tray and the lack of room in that area of the case due the location of the CPU socket. it makes it a very hard and annoying.
I was hoping a move to the new lian li side facing cases would help with fitting but it seem sits as flippin bad :(
Far better cooling at least.
 
Defiant306 said:
Well I didnt state I lapped it, I'm fully aware of lapping. I didnt intend to lapp it, I wanted to remove the crap on the surface of the cooler only so it was clean after using some sprits to clean it off any contaminates.
Anyway I will remove and try reapplying the cooler with new paste, the problem is the coolers size, Lian Li god aweful way of removing the motherboard tray and the lack of room in that area of the case due the location of the CPU socket. it makes it a very hard and annoying.
I was hoping a move to the new lian li side facing cases would help with fitting but it seem sits as flippin bad :(
Far better cooling at least.
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with the kind of temps you're experiencing, at stock, it's well worth the hassle to reseat the cooler. 25% o/c is a mandatory minimum with a Q6600 on air, but not until you get more realistic numbers. best of luck mate :).
 
From what I gather the card won't be throttled too badly, if at all, by the PCIe 1.1.
But listen to these guys! Get your CPU temp down, Overclock it like a mother (3.5 should be a walk in the park with good cooling), and enjoy your new 4870x2!
 
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