Q6600 Bottleneck?

[Yucca]

Hi all,

I have had one of these Q6600's for the last year, nice little chip. I have it running at 2600MHZ, cant be bothered to clock it any more really, dont want to run into problems, i always seems to screw my windows installation up!

Anyway, i dont really play any new games on max resolutions or anything like that. I mostly use my pc for internet, emails and office. And i use it quite extensivly as a media centre (by that i mean i have loads of big hd's full of music and avi's and HD content etc). So i use it for watching video's mostly avi but some High Deff stuff to and listening to music etc. Oh and ocassionally i copy a cd/dvd or two.

Will a upgrade in cpu or an overclock make any noticable difference to these things?

 

[Trunks9486]

I dont think you need to clock it or worry about it. By the looks of it you are happy with your pc experience and you dont seem overly confident with clocking.

Btw, playing in low resoltuions puts more stress on the CPU, playing in high resoltuions stresses the GPU more. Even at stock though your CPU provides more than enough horsepower for games.

 

[Greebo]

Only video encoding.

Surfing, emails, office and playing music/videos could all be handled by a Celeron and you wouldn't notice the difference.

If you have the right graphics card which does not rely on the cpu for processing then you are fine.

The quad core means everything will run smoothly when multi tasking so you won't see any difference IMO.

 

[Dark_Angel]

In my opinion clocking it to 3GHZ is pretty damn easy. I normally clock mine to 3.1GHZ or so on stock voltages (G0 version) but recently I am running it almost at default clocks because I haven't really been doing it much that is intensive.

 

[Hesky82]

if Yucca has had his q6600 for the last year its probably a B3 stepping, even then I think 3ghz is pretty obtainable.
Id say have another go at overclocking it, if you overclock correctly you should be able to get the most out of the processor and never corrupt the os.

 

[psychas]

why just not go int in bios and raise fsb to 333 x 9 you will not need to modify anything like volts and etc.. and you will have healthy q6600 @ 3ghz

 

[Hesky82]

Not all q6600s can run 3GHz stable without a vcore boost.
B3 quads even with the slightest of vcore boost can become a real handful with so so cooling.

 

[psychas]

well i was assuming it was g0

 

[Hesky82]

G0 stepping quads were only released 9 months ago so if he's had his for over a year it’s highly doubtful it’s a G0