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Q6600 Default Voltage?

There you go then, your mb has set the vcore correctly.

Worth noting you have a decent Q6600 also, generally the lower the VID the higher it will clock, 1.2750 is average.
 
75c max! try and keep under 70c if possible and only trust core temps reading.

You shouldn’t be running anywhere near that with stock vcore and clock even with the stock cooler on full load, but yeah if you want to know what to keep under when you overclock, around 60 under full load is nice and safe.
 
Hesky82 said:
75c max! try and keep under 70c if possible and only trust core temps reading.

You shouldn’t be running anywhere near that with stock vcore and clock even with the stock cooler on full load, but yeah if you want to know what to keep under when you overclock, around 60 under full load is nice and safe.
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Ok, so simalar to E6600 then, priming at default vcore and clockspeed is giving me around 56/56/51/50 ?

Is it normal for there to be a temp difference between the cores like that?
 
yeah, the fins get very close towards the centre of the cooler where they meet at the heat pipe. I used the same cooler on my old amd opteron dual core chip for a while and it was forever gathering dust!

As your cpu runs a low vcore I would assume it is a G0 stepping, I think that cooler may let you overclock with stock volts and no more.

Do you intend to overclock the cpu?
 
Hesky82 said:
yeah, the fins get very close towards the centre of the cooler where they meet at the heat pipe. I used the same cooler on my old amd opteron dual core chip for a while and it was forever gathering dust!

As your cpu runs a low vcore I would assume it is a G0 stepping, I think that cooler may let you overclock with stock volts and no more.

Do you intend to overclock the cpu?
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Yep, only 3.2GHz so far and it needed a slight voltage increase to do it, getting upto 66C on two cores, 60 on the other two.

Also motherboards being a pain, will not boot with 400*8, yet I was using that with E6600 for over a year, stupid gigacrap mobo. lol
 
no dude, it’s the chipset! the Intel 965 starts to give up at around 380fsb with quads. your doing well!!

You more than likely have an awesome chip there but your board will limit your overclock tremendously!
My E6600 was happy as Larry on my old Asus 650i motherboard running at 3.8Ghz, I tried my Q6600 on the same board and I get stuck at 3Ghz!

I'm now using a P5K premium P35 board and I'm rocking along at 4Ghz with the same Quad! thats how much an mb can limit you.

You will find your cooler will limit you soon as temps start to climb.
 
Hesky82 said:
no dude, it’s the chipset! the Intel 965 starts to give up at around 380fsb with quads. your doing well!!

You more than likely have an awesome chip there but your board will limit your overclock tremendously!
My E6600 was happy as Larry on my old Asus 650i motherboard running at 3.8Ghz, I tried my Q6600 on the same board and I get stuck at 3Ghz!

I'm now using a P5K premium P35 board and I'm rocking along at 4Ghz with the same Quad! thats how much an mb can limit you.

You will find your cooler will limit you soon as temps start to climb.
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I don't see how a mobo change will drop my temps to be honest as i've only increased the voltages from 1.225 to 1.260, the fsb issue is pretty minor but itself is not limiting the overclock of the CPU.
 
Shocky-FM said:
I don't see how a mobo change will drop my temps to be honest as i've only increased the voltages from 1.225 to 1.260, the fsb issue is pretty minor but itself is not limiting the overclock of the CPU.
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A new motherboard won't help the temps no, that HSF will struggle with a Q6600 as the voltage increases. But Hesky82 is correct the 965 may well have problems at 400 fsb with a quad and the boards power regulation is having to supply a lot more current. It will limit the overclock.
 
fornowagain said:
A new motherboard won't help the temps no, that HSF will struggle with a Q6600 as the voltage increases. But Hesky82 is correct the 965 may well have problems at 400 fsb with a quad and the boards power regulation is having to supply a lot more current. It will limit the overclock.
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I know, but I tested it with 9x multiplier to start with and got nowhere near 400MHz so that itself is not limiting the CPU as you can work around it.

What air cooler would you guys recommend that would actually make a difference?
 
A tuniq tower or thermaltake 120 ultra are considered the best, however there are issues with both; as you can see from Mrbios' thread running at the moment, him, me and a couple of others seem to have perhaps got a bad batch of tuniqs and the TT120 are commonly known for often (not always) having a slight curvature to the base, so often need to be lapped to get best contact (poor QC seems to be the main given reason).

Your 9700 isn't a bad cooler if you turn the fan right up, it was showing ahead of the tuniq in some tests, IF you put the fan speed to full, and I've just bought the very slightly weaker 9500 zalman for testing purposes against the Tuniq.

Beyond that aside from some other coolers which are roughly on part with the two aforementioned coolers, the next step really is basic watercooling.
 
Damn, so I may have to lap my cooler if Wolfdale proves to be too much :(. Thanks for the heads up although it wasn't directed at me :).
 
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