Q6600 95W Energy Efficient overclocking

[MR.B]

I noticed these CPU's being sold on here... do they overclock any better than the normal Q6600's?

And what are people gernally getting Q6600's to on a 680i board?

 

[Vanilla]

Yes they do.

 

[MR.B]

What are generally getting to?

Will i be likely able to get past 3.2GHz with one on a EVGA 680i board?

 

[Barry1337]

You should get 3.2ghz easily some people on here have them at 3.6ghz.

 

[Paul11]

though they have not been released yet over here so no one can tell you for sure.

 

[techmonkey]

They're basically the new G0 revisions which require less vCore to operate so, in theory, you'll have more headroom when it comes to raiseing vCore on higher overclocks.

As for quad core clocking potential on 680i boards, many people at OCN with the P5N32-E SLi have had slightly less clocking success with the quad CPU's compared to the Duo's. I have heard that the EVGA and XFX board's, which are basically Nvidia reference designs, tend to fair slightly better with the quads. Though no 680i based board can match the P5K Deluxe when it comes to clocking quads.

I don't think that the limitations of the 680i will be helped with the new G0 revisions as heat wasn't the only issue. It's more likely to do with the way that the nForce MCH handles having four cores to feed, which can only realistically be fixed with a BIOS update or even a new board revision in my opinion.