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Q6600 Default Voltage?

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.

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?


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.

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.
 
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.

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?
 
yup, thats because the higher multi at that fsb stress the motherboards cpu power regulation more so that 8x400mhz.

Whats the work around then?

Use 356x9? the motherboard will boot upto 385MHz so theres some room to spare with better cooling if I can be bothered.

But I managed to reduced temps slightly by mounting another 120mm fan at the front of the case, dropped temps down to 57/61/56/62 @ 3.2GHz which isnt so bad, just a shame it only did 3.1GHz on stock volts.
 
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