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Q6600 differences

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Hi just wondering what the difference between these 3 chips is.

Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 2.40GHz Guaranteed to run at 3.30GHZ (1466FSB) - Retail

Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail

Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 2.40GHz Guaranteed to run at 3.00GHZ (1333FSB) - Retail

I know the FSB but whats actually different about the chips? i mean there's quite a price hike (added abit of money overnight on the highest spec one) between them. Is this how the chips actually come or does just mean someone along the lines has tweaked a setting?
 
This chips are identical, they are picked from the same stock, its just if you cant get to the "guaranteed" overclock, you can send it back, you also don't void you warranty if you overclock.

99.999% of Q6600 will do 3-3.3Ghz with ease on a good air cooler, so just get the cheapest
 
If your looking to buy a Q6600 would look 2nd hand.. firstly most of the new Q6600 are poor clockers in comparison to those sold 4/6 months ago... secondly if you buy one second hand then you can get a CPU you know will clock.. and thirdly its cheaper
 
There well worth the money, and they are excellent overclockers, I have got 3.8gig out of mine on air it was stable but the temps where a bit to high with a water cooled system you could get 3.8.
I run mine at 3.5 max temp 40c and its stable and can deal with anything you chuck at it.

cheers
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Am well aware of how well they clock :) just saying the majority of the latest Q6600 are topping out at 3.6 and people are having to use a lot of vcore for those sorts of clock 1.5v+

a lot of the earlier Q6600 would hit 3.6 on much less vcore (I believe mine needs around 1.35v, its a good CPU but still 1.4v/1.45v wasnt uncommon) given that you can pick good clocking Q6600 for £80/£90 on the MM seems a waste of money to spend £120 on something that is going to strugle for 3.6
 
Thanks for the replies guys. I doubt i'll be doing a great deal of overclocking for now. Will just run the new system and see how it feels :) But i may look at 2nd hand.
 
Pneumonic said:
Am well aware of how well they clock :) just saying the majority of the latest Q6600 are topping out at 3.6 and people are having to use a lot of vcore for those sorts of clock 1.5v+

a lot of the earlier Q6600 would hit 3.6 on much less vcore (I believe mine needs around 1.35v, its a good CPU but still 1.4v/1.45v wasnt uncommon) given that you can pick good clocking Q6600 for £80/£90 on the MM seems a waste of money to spend £120 on something that is going to strugle for 3.6
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Good advice :)
 
So the settings adjsutments that are mentioned in the description of the guaranteed to overclock version can be used for any version? I have the Energy effiecient version and was wondering on settings to try.
 
yes the guaranteed clock ones are no different to the normal ones..

Just to prove a point really! w3bbo's old Q6600 that clocked primestable to 4.1ghz under water sold on the MM for £115 recently
 
Got quite lucky with mine, purchased a retail version about 4 months ago, 1.2750 vid chip, have had it at 3.6ghz on 1.4125v, was stable for 4 hours under prime95 small fft, gonna wait till the weekend to see if i can get it to run 8 hours+.
 
I have one of the "worse" Q6600's, but it's running fine at 3.42ghz with 1.45v. 3.6 needs over 1.55 and that .2ghz isnt worth 0.1v to me.

I don't think I would notice any difference in gaming with a Q6600 that would reach 3.8 to be honest.. but everyones opinion is different I guess.
 
Whats the average VID of these new Q6600's? I bought mine approximately 2-3 months ago, so trying to work out whether ive got a good one. My VID is 1.2625, currently clocked at 3150Mhz, with 1.3025v, but i have been alittle generous with the volts as i didnt want it to crash. Will try to find out the most Mhz i can get for this voltage at some point this weekend i think.
 
1.2625 is about average for a Q6600, if you look on the quadcore database on the first page w3bbo has some analysis that I done on VIDs vs Clocks I state the average VID in the post I think
 
Yeah, ive looked through that (not all as its 15 odd pages), and noticed 1.2625 is around average in other threads, just wondered if the newer chips had a difference average. Some good reading in that thread, definately benefitial for newb's like me!
 
no "evidence" to back this up... put from what people have posted most of the Q6600 in the last few months have for the most part been high VID 1.3v+

VID should only be considered a guideline to how good the CPU is.. the Batch the CPU is from makes a big difference.. the highest clocking CPU on the quadcore database dont have the lowest VID's
 
Mine is 1.2625 VID, and was bought under 2 months ago from OCUK. 1.34v for, 3.4ghz. Could prob use less volts, but seems too much effot as its pritty low already. Temps arent that bad either on it with mid range air cooling. About 66C full load on 4 cores. Will try clocking it higher, once i find a reason to do it lol.
 
I bought the "Titan Accelerator" 4850 about 2 months ago,the chip is Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) Overclocked to 3.30GHz.I've not touched any settings since I've had it,Speedfan 4.35 says;
Vcore 1.44
+12V 11.35V
AVcc 3.26V
I have'nt a clue what all that means !!!!! hope it helps!
btw the temp is steady at 40c with no load
 
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My temps are around 55 at 3.15Ghz, with 1.3025v's.

Whats the difference between VCORE and CPU Core? I thought they were the same thing but am getting conflicting info from SpeedFan and CPU-Z. VCORE was showing as 1.43v and CPU Core as 1.24v (which i assumed is correct taking into consideration Vdrop), but where is the 1.43v coming from? Ive set the CPU Voltage at 1.3025v in the bios, but which is this related to?
 
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