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Is the OcUK Q6600 "Guaranteed to run at 3.30GHZ" worth it?

Misiowiec

Misiowiec

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Do you think the OcUK Q6600 "Guaranteed to run at 3.30GHz" at £194 inc is worth it? I will upgrade to the Q6600 once the new Quads push the price down further, and want to overclock it - ideally to 3.2-3.4GHz.

A plain Q6600 is £141 inc VAT so there's a substantial difference. Are there some statistics of the success rates of overclocking these to 3.2GHz+? Never purchased a guaranteed CPU before but always relied on my luck which served me well all the way from the first Celeron 300A at 450MHz. Well, until I got a E6400 which doesn't overclock well at all, that is.

The rest of the system will be as in the signature, though I will upgrade the motherboard to Abit IP35 Pro or Asus P5K-E WiFi (that's another decision - suggestions?).

Thanks for any feedback.
 
I've bought six quads. oem and retail, for myself and family members and all of them have done 3.5 to 3.9 without any issue's.

I would also say, I do prefer the retail pack, for some reason these have always clocked alittle better.
 
Would be stupid, i don't believe they even test the chips or anything, it's just a kind of overclocking-allowed warranty thing :)
 
The only thing the "OcUK Guaranteed to OcUK" chips offer is piece of mind, that if you OC your chip you can safely say "I overclocked it, it doesn't reach 3.3GHz and it doesn't work" and still get a replacement chip.

Overclocking voids warranty on chips, of course you don't mention you OCed a chip when you try to return it as faulty normally :)

OcUK are basically saying, you can overclock these if they don't work or hit the rated speeds you get your money back even after saying you've basically voided your warrenty.

Realistcally, they're pointless... save your pennies and get an OEM version and put a decent cooler on it like a Tuniq Tower 120
 
More votes towards the concensus, and thanks for the clarification on the OcUK 'policy'. I'll put a Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme with a Scythe 800 RPM 120mm fan on the chip anyway, so it should stay nice and cool...
 
Got a retail one then bought a Noctua NH-U9F and running at 3.5GHz easy. I recon I could hit 3.6 with it no probs.
 
Retail is the same price as the OEM at the moment so you might as well get that and have a spare cooler in case you ever need one, that's if you get a different cooler.
 
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