Zalman CNPS-9700. Load is prime95. Once I get a cheap p5q deluxe before battlefield 3 comes out, I should be okay to get a decent overclock right?
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CPU VID Does not affect Overclocking.
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Zalman CNPS-9700. Load is prime95. Once I get a cheap p5q deluxe before battlefield 3 comes out, I should be okay to get a decent overclock right?
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Yup that will be good.
The P5Q Deluxe imo is the best skt 775 mobo and you should be able to have a nice overclock on it
You should have paused and asked yourself why anyone would go to the bother of creating a vid, if it did nothing (except waste time), before you said that
Pretty much, the Q6600 is still a powerful enough processor even today and shouldn't affect even the highest-end GPU's.
My Q6600 is a 1.325v VID chip, however it has run stable at 3.6ghz on a P5Q Pro. The deluxe is a slightly better board and so might be easier to get a better/stable overclock from what I have read on them.
I guess this also supports what has already been said on VID. Even though my chip has the highest VID of the Q6600's it still clocks well so at best its only small indicator
I found 3.6ghz to be the seetspot on my old q6600, (1.2750 vid) Needed 1.4 vcore at that speed, but i did have it prime stable at 3.8ghz, but the voltage jumps do get very high, 1.512 at 3.8. Higher vid chips tend to run cooler though. The deluxe has slightly beefier chipset cooling and better power phase for handling high fsb overclocks, but the p5q pro is also a cracking board.