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E6600

fastwunz

fastwunz

fastwunz

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Guys i cant afford a new cpu atm so i thought i would push my current one a little.

This is on air and from 2.4MHZ ive managed to get it to 3.4MHZ and idling at about 50-60 degrees.

However, im not overly happy with those temps - Speedfan shows the little 'fire' symbol when it measures them which puts me off more than a little.

Is the above temp relatively safe? or is there a good cut off point that i should aim for?

Lol, just doing the above increased my 3Dmark 06 score from 12k - 15.5 k!!
 
The E6600 is an awesome chip, i would still have mine but i kinda fried it as i tried to push it too far :( , the sound of a cpu going pop is quite horrid i can tell you.
Either get better air cooling or go down the WC route as imo its not worth getting anything else as the performance gains arent worth the money you would have to pay.
 
thanks for the advice - the performance gains are actually quite staggering after having clocked it - i cant believe how much better my performance in 3Dmar was - saying that its quite cpu dependant of course.

Oh, well ive reduced it to 3.2MHZ for now and ill leave it at that and game for a bit - im running a chart at the momment on speedfan which i shall refer to once im bored and check what temps it got to.
 
What temps do you get at load?

Those are the important ones.

I run my 6600 at 3.0 with 1.30v through it on an AC FP7 and temps never go above 45
degrees , idles at 18-21 this time of year.
 
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