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Q6600 and Gigabyte GA-965p-ds3?

Cadno

Cadno

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Right then I did a quick google search and think I got my answer but need to find out for sure and here is the best place I have found :cool:

Will the q6600 work in a Gigabyte GA-965p-ds3 without any issues ? and am I right in thinking that a q6600 is a quadcore?

Thinking of canabalising 2 old systems to make one for a skinflint cousin that wants somthing to play BF3 regardless of quality
 
Yes and yes.

It will work and it's a quad core.

The BIOS version you need depends on the version of the motherboard and the stepping of the chip:

GA-965P-DS3

Ignore the GA-965P-DS3P variants.
 
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Thanks mate.Will the chip type be on the chip? Will having had a heatsink on it have removed or hidden the number in any way? I have never flashed a BIOS before, is it easy to do? I also need to know how to remove a heatsink and move a chip ot put in diffrent board. Is it easy?

Sorry for all the questions, Im going into new territory here
 
Cadno said:
Thanks mate.Will the chip type be on the chip? Will having had a heatsink on it have removed or hidden the number in any way? I have never flashed a BIOS before, is it easy to do? I also need to know how to remove a heatsink and move a chip ot put in diffrent board. Is it easy?

Sorry for all the questions, Im going into new territory here
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It will indeed tell you on the processor itself. If it's been taken from another board, it will most likely be covered in thermal paste, so just clean it off with kitchen roll (be careful) and it will reveal the details of it.

It's super easy to flash the BIOS. Just use their program. It can be done within windows now. Download the utility and the .ROM... load it in and click go. It's as easy as sending an email.

With regards to installing it. It goes in the same way it came out, in reverse of course. Plenty videos on installing a processor and heatsink.

Look for, LGA 775 installation. Should be plenty.

Hope that's helped.
 
That did help a lot. Would I need anything other than kitchen roll to remove the thermal paste? Or would that be enough to get rid clean it up enough to reinstall in diffrent computer?
 
I ran this setup for approx 8 months.

If you are thinking of overclocking....
Went to 3ghz no problems but you literally will not be able to go any higher. Make sure you are using the best bios version as well (quick google will tell you what to use).
 
Yea i managed 3.4Ghz on one 965 DS3 R1 but i believe that was down to the chip being a golden clocker, had to use like 1.5V BIOS to achieve, whereas when i changed it to a P35 mobo it did 3.4Ghz on 1.3v and topped out at 3.8GHz 1.45v on air, likely a 4GHz under water chip but i never did it.
 
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Yea i managed 3.4Ghz on one 965 DS3 R1 but i believe that was down to the chip being a golden clocker, had to use like 1.5V BIOS to achieve, whereas when i changed it to a P35 mobo it did 3.4Ghz on 1.3v and topped out at 3.8GHz 1.45v on air, likely a 4GHz under water chip but i never did it.
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Very impressive. My Q6600 runs at 3.6Ghz under 1.4V on a Maximus Formula. Tried pushing it further, but it doesn't play ball.
 
Yea i find the upper limit of most Q6600 to be about 3.4-3.6Ghz on decent air. Have had the odd dud that didn't wanna play ball much over 3.2-3.3GHz as well as the super special duds that didn't do much past 3Ghz - the last batches of G0 come to mind, don't know what the hell happened there, i've had some very good B3s and i want to believe that golden chip was a B3 though it was so late in the Q6600 clocking game when i put it in the P35 mobo i probably never even checked out the batch no. or cpuz'ed it lol. I've only got one Q6600 left and i've got it at 3Ghz 1.2v almost silently and its just an avg clocker, i think 3.4Ghz with about 1.5v, quite amazing how much vcore jump is needed for that little 400MHz :D
 
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Justintime said:
Yea i find the upper limit of most Q6600 to be about 3.4-3.6Ghz on decent air. Have had the odd dud that didn't wanna play ball much over 3.2-3.3GHz as well as the super special duds that didn't do much past 3Ghz - the last batches of G0 come to mind, don't know what the hell happened there, i've had some very good B3s and i want to believe that golden chip was a B3 though it was so late in the Q6600 clocking game when i put it in the P35 mobo i probably never even checked out the batch no. or cpuz'ed it lol. I've only got one Q6600 left and i've got it at 3Ghz 1.2v almost silently and its just an avg clocker, i think 3.4Ghz with about 1.5v, quite amazing how much vcore jump is needed for that little 400MHz :D
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It makes sense to keep it at 1.2V silently. Unfortunately I'm squeezing every ounce out of mine, running it at 100% all the time, no throttling at all. As you said it really does need that extra to reach 400Mhz.

Still an amazing chip in todays standards. I've had mine just over four years now I think and it still keeps up. I can play all the latest games on max settings... it is coupled with a 6970, however the chip doesn't seem to throttle it much. 2500k... over rated, Q6600 is where it's at (or so I like to tell myself :p)

Going off topic, I've not done any serious OC'ing on these new fancy motherboards. Is it easier or more difficult than the old boards with FSB etc?
 
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That did help a lot. Would I need anything other than kitchen roll to remove the thermal paste? Or would that be enough to get rid clean it up enough to reinstall in diffrent computer?
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Once you have removed thermal paste with kitchen towel, use Isopropyl Alcohol (99%+) with a cotton bud to completely clean the thermal compound.
 
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