Q6600 Can Still Kick Arse

I had a Q6600 @ 4ghz then upgraded to an i7 920 @ 4.5ghz. I can certainly feel the speed difference.
 
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Still an amazing chip. Picked mine up in Sep '08 for £105 and haven't had a spot of bother with it :)

Definitely goes down in computer history as one of the chips to own in the day. (Like the old Celeron 300s)
 
WingZero30 said:
:). I am surprised that Q6600 despite it's age seems to be the most famous processor out of all the intel core series. The Q6600 is basically two E6600 cpus joined together on a single 65nm die and obviously the performance is going to be immense. Kudos to that person who came up with the idea of joining 2 E6600 together and forming a Quad cpu.

I remember when my brother 'Beenom' bought the E6600 more than 4 years ago. It was the rage of that time and considered to be the best enthusiast dual core processor.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17602289

Before moving to Q6600 I built my first pc using my brother's E6600. Previously I was using an oem pc with a very old AMD athlon XP 3000+ so a jump to core 2 cpu provided huge gains.

My Q6600 is from ocuk mm and is currently at 3.0GHz. I intend to push it further to 3.4-3.6GHz once I get better cooling as discussed in my other thread and to use it for atleast 4 years:).

Op I take it that you managed to overclock your Q6600 to 3.2GHz successfully with reasonable temps as discussed in your other thread.
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Yes, i left it at 3.2Ghz and 1.45v in bios. Tested it overnight with Prime and it was stable. Highest temp was 63 so i will leave it at 3.2Ghz. I was just worried about using 1.45v, but as people stated in my other thread it would be fine.
 
xiphrex said:
I have a G0 stepping and cant get the chip stable at 3.6ghz. Buts its fully stable at 3.5!

So not all of these chips can achieve 3.6+ghz. I also suspect a lot of people who say they can get to 3.6ghz are never really fully stable.

Great chips though!
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I am willing to put my chip on the line for sake of being right, I have never had a G0 stepping that wont do 3.6 stable.
My chip, proved on here will do 4GHz @ 1.48, I will swap for any g0 stepping chip from the doubters, I have had 8 Q6600's not one has failed @ 3.6 with prime95 8/12 hour .
I have had a few not get to 4 GHz but stable 3.6GHz never failed.
 
xiphrex said:
Well what was the maximum vcore you needed for all those chips?

If I went up to 1.6 I reckon mine would be stable at 3.6. But I dont want to go that high...
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Between 1.38 and 1.55, only once have I had a chip tat was not stable @ 3.6GHz at 1.55, even then pumped up pll by .2 and it was stable.

MotherBoard has a lot to do with it as well.
I found P35 better than P45 for Vcore only increase, x48 is just a pain and P45 likes to be played with for balance.
 
redshadows said:
Between 1.38 and 1.55, only once have I had a chip tat was not stable @ 3.6GHz at 1.55, even then pumped up pll by .2 and it was stable.

MotherBoard has a lot to do with it as well.
I found P35 better than P45 for Vcore only increase, x48 is just a pain and P45 likes to be played with for balance.
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Are you using a custom water loop to keep this all under control temps wise?
 
My Q6600 is also at 3.2Ghz on air. Back when I was on water however;

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:D

That was using my friends ram though, mine wasn't stable much past 800mhz so everyday use was at 3.6Ghz
 
Essexraptor said:
Are you using a custom water loop to keep this all under control temps wise?
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I use water for my main rig, but I use a TRUE to test before water

TEST rig:

P5Q pro
TRUE
3870
4 gig OCZ sli 1066

MAIN:
P5Q Deluxe
Custom water
Either a 9800gx2 or 4870x2
4 gig LV OCZ platinum

PLAY RIG:
GIGABYTE G31
Sliver arrow
4850
2 gig Giel Ultra

Any of them will run good temps on the Q6600 And right now Im running 3 Q6600 and my Q9550 is in a drawer
 
redshadows said:
I use water for my main rig, but I use a TRUE to test before water

TEST rig:

P5Q pro
TRUE
3870
4 gig OCZ sli 1066

MAIN:
P5Q Deluxe
Custom water
Either a 9800gx2 or 4870x2
4 gig LV OCZ platinum

PLAY RIG:
GIGABYTE G31
Sliver arrow
4850
2 gig Giel Ultra

Any of them will run good temps on the Q6600 And right now Im running 3 Q6600 and my Q9550 is in a drawer
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Nice :)

Use the Silver Arrow on my i7 (Massive cooler but awesome cooling)

Run my Q6700 under a Coolermaster V6GT (Loud as hell itself when the fans are at full whack, but found the Bios setting now to keep that under control ...LOL)

So what is your take on a "comfortable" temp for a 100% loading/stress test for these chips? (Q6600/Q6700)
 
Still have my Q6600 and at the moment its still running at 2.4ghz. I've had it at 3 but it won't go higher which I think is a motherboard limitation. For what i use it for i don't need it any faster anyway tbh. I was toying with a new i7 920 rig but i just don't need it. My next upgrade will need a new chip mobo and ram and that's a large lump to fork out unless its going to be a reasonable jump in performance.

If one of the parts i have should fail then i'll buy new toys, failing that its going to take something either very special or very power hungry to make me change. Since i don't play FPS or Third Person games much its gonig to be a while.

I originally bought the Q6600 and 4gb ram for SupCom :)
 
Essexraptor said:
Nice :)

Use the Silver Arrow on my i7 (Massive cooler but awesome cooling)

Run my Q6700 under a Coolermaster V6GT (Loud as hell itself when the fans are at full whack, but found the Bios setting now to keep that under control ...LOL)

So what is your take on a "comfortable" temp for a 100% loading/stress test for these chips? (Q6600/Q6700)
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On my [email protected] load 72c is max

Cant get the G31 to post 3.6GHz so 3.4@ 60

My water is maxed @ 4GHz 39c load(dont ask, its very custom, answers in the forum)

72 load is about all I would want on a Q6600 so comfortable would be 72c and below.
 
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redshadows said:
On my [email protected] load 72c is max

Cant get the G31 to post 3.6GHz so 3.4@ 60

My water is maxed @ 4GHz 39c load(dont ask, its very custom, answers in the forum)

72 load is about all I would want on a Q6600 so comfortable would be 72c and below.
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Thanks for your input/knowledge/experience on comfortable temps. Hope it is of use to the OP as well :)

Means I have another 22C to play with from my current 3.2Ghz and 50C. Got a POST and boot into Windows @ 3.6 and a couple of 1 hour runs on OCCT (57C temps) but bummed out of Prime after 14mins but I think I need to up the volts a little from 1.3v :)
 
redshadows said:
I am willing to put my chip on the line for sake of being right, I have never had a G0 stepping that wont do 3.6 stable.
My chip, proved on here will do 4GHz @ 1.48, I will swap for any g0 stepping chip from the doubters, I have had 8 Q6600's not one has failed @ 3.6 with prime95 8/12 hour .
I have had a few not get to 4 GHz but stable 3.6GHz never failed.
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I'll accept that challenge.
My G0 won't go past 3.1 on my board stable (IP35-E)
 
redshadows said:
I use water for my main rig, but I use a TRUE to test before water

TEST rig:

P5Q pro
TRUE
3870
4 gig OCZ sli 1066

MAIN:
P5Q Deluxe
Custom water
Either a 9800gx2 or 4870x2
4 gig LV OCZ platinum

PLAY RIG:
GIGABYTE G31
Sliver arrow
4850
2 gig Giel Ultra

Any of them will run good temps on the Q6600 And right now Im running 3 Q6600 and my Q9550 is in a drawer
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What settings do you use for the P45 board?

I basically cant get 3.6ghz to even boot unless I pump the vcore well up to 1.55+ and even then its unstable.

Im using a H50 and at the moment to get stable 3.5ghz Im at 1.5 vcore.
 
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