How hot should a Q6600 G0 be on a Tuniq Tower at idle, mine seems toasty.

[yantorsen]

Depends. Setting the option to Turbo or Extreme tightens some hidden memory/northbridge timings and increases memory bandwidth quite substantially.

But if your memory is clocked to near its limit on the current timings (4-4-4-12/5-5-5-15/whatever) then Turbo and Extreme will start to cause instability a lot sooner than Standard.

so is it better to have the ram slower with turbo/extreme turned on?

 

[Cob]

Depends on how 'slow' it would have to go. Just changing the option to Turbo can increase the memory bandwidth by 20% (it may have changed with newer BIOS's, but that's what it was when we did a few tests when the option was first activated back in the summer). And the Core 2's love bandwidth.

But you'd have to benchmark to find out. Running a 32mb Super-Pi run would likely be enough to tell you.

 

[SkeeterUK]

Also is a good way to tell is use winrars benchmark tool from within winrar. Great way to test ram stability also in my experiance when overclockin. As if ram is pushed too far it only takes about a min to check with winrar benchy. Well it did with me on my system.

But remember yanto, you told me on msn you didnt notice any performance gain from stock to overclocked to 3ghz, so its up to you really if its worth pushing it anymore. I thought you would have noticed improvements but i guess depends on the stuff you use. Sup com would be lapping up the overclockin with higher fps as its more cpu bound as its one of the better quad core optimised games around even tho its not the best it could be still.