Q6600 best cooler

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Just pricing up a new machine - going with a Q6600 and Asus P5Q-E. I was going to go with a Tuniq Tower, but this is out of stock (and seems very pricey). Is there anything comparable for a lower price??
 
Well, what kind of clock could I get with different coolers? I thought 3.6Ghz would have been possible with the Tuniq?
 
all depends on you Q6600 and what sort of voltage you are going to need.. 3.6ghz is a push on a Tuniq you probably want to look at a lapped Q6600 and TRUE with two good 2000RPM fans in push-pull
 
if they could post that 8 hours primestable in the quadcore database for a Q6600 i would be pleasantly suprised.. AC7 tends to be good for 3.4ghz
 
I'd be happy with 3.4. The Tuniq is about £45 more than the AC7 (plus extra fans etc), so for the sake of 200mhz I think I'll go with the AC7! Cheers :)
 
MooMoo444 said:
Doing fine with an AC7 at 3.6GHz here. Highest I get on a core is 65-66 under max load.
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can you post your prime shot in the quadcore database :)

I have a big spreadsheet of Coolers vs Clocks nice to keep it updated and that would certainly be the highest clock on an AC7
 
Pneumonic said:
can you post your prime shot in the quadcore database :)

I have a big spreadsheet of Coolers vs Clocks nice to keep it updated and that would certainly be the highest clock on an AC7
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Well I have all fans on max and its off the floor so it gets good air and not much dust. I might try and get a run up and running this weekend :p
 
Have a P5q-e and a q6000 (@3.4ghz) am using a Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro also and it keeps my chip quiet and cool all for less than £20, was very impressed by it as it allowed me to get a 4870 instead of a 4850 without going to far over budget:)
 
When i used the acf7 on my quad @3.4ghz my temps were topping out at 77'c, prime load. Replaced it with a TRUE and two fans in push/pull. Managed to drop 9'c of my hottest cores and enabled me to get to 3.6ghz with temps of 68-68-62-62.
 
I have a lapped ACF7 pro on my Q6600 and idle temps are around 30C and load around 65-66C under OCCT at 1.5v - unfortunatly my Q6600 seems to be a poor clocker anything above 3.4gig takes a hideous amount of voltage to keep it stable :( if I could get it prime stable at 3.6gig around 1.4-1.45 as some are it would be around 57C under max load. (at 1.4 my idle temps are 25C :D).

EDIT: I'm not OCing the Q6600 on the board in my sig :P its a Q6600 on a P35 board I'm talking about.

EDIT2: bah getting annoyed with this chip does upto 3.5gig with 1.4vcore then needs 1.55+ to get 3.6 stable :S I should have just gone for an E8400 or 8500.
 
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Rroff said:
I have a lapped ACF7 pro on my Q6600 and idle temps are around 30C and load around 65-66C under OCCT at 1.5v - unfortunatly my Q6600 seems to be a poor clocker anything above 3.4gig takes a hideous amount of voltage to keep it stable :( if I could get it prime stable at 3.6gig around 1.4-1.45 as some are it would be around 57C under max load. (at 1.4 my idle temps are 25C :D).

EDIT: I'm not OCing the Q6600 on the board in my sig :P its a Q6600 on a P35 board I'm talking about.

EDIT2: bah getting annoyed with this chip does upto 3.5gig with 1.4vcore then needs 1.55+ to get 3.6 stable :S I should have just gone for an E8400 or 8500.
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When i had the quad clocked to 3.4 i was using a voltage of 1.4125 for that speed under the acf7 the first time. Managed to get the volts down to 1.3750 for 3.4 under the TRUE at the next attempt, subsequently discovered that the chip would do 8 hours + using 1.4125v for my current clockspeed of 3.6ghz.
 
I'm using a Zalman CPS9500 on my Q6600, does anyone have any experience with this cooler?

Un overclocked, I'm idling at 17 degrees (according to the bios) but I'm sceptical of this figure?

Also, as a note, if anyone has the Asus P5E don't buy the Zalman as I had to cut the clamp down to size as the Mobo heatsinks got in the way...
 
thegwa said:
I'm using a Zalman CPS9500 on my Q6600, does anyone have any experience with this cooler?

Un overclocked, I'm idling at 17 degrees (according to the bios) but I'm sceptical of this figure?

Also, as a note, if anyone has the Asus P5E don't buy the Zalman as I had to cut the clamp down to size as the Mobo heatsinks got in the way...
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Use a windows based temperature monitor. I'd recommend either RealTemp or Coretemp. BIOS values are no where near accurate from personal experience.
 
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