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Q6600 keeping my room warm!!
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Soldato
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Yes, disable speed stepping. I believe it removes your overclock too though. Haven't really played around with my SB yet to be 100 percent sure.
There's no point in turning it off either way IMO.
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My 27 inch monitor is what keeps me warm... I get a suntan off this thing.
Soldato
Trust me it does, especially when its been on for like 20 hours and its 4 in the morning. Well, that and my 2900xt
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Right, so a few hundred watts of heat is going to do what, exactly? Lower the air temperature in the room?
Seriously, in a modern-ish/reasonably insulated/not too draughty building, those 'few' hundreds of watts of heat make a massive difference.
Once you factor in warm components like Q6600s and power hungry GPUs running at full load, even 24/7 for number crunching, you soon need to start turning down/off radiators.
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spot on, my mates [email protected] could heat a room easy.
my q6600 used to provide a slight boost, my new sandy bridge doesn't help at all.
Really notice it at a LAN with 4-5 PCs in the same room.
Try 150 machines in a hall. In winter it was roasting.
I do miss the heat from my QX6700 but i do like how cool my SB runs and how little power it uses.
Does any one have any indication of how much power Q6600 consumes when running at 3.2-3.6Ghz? Also how would this power consumption compare to the i core series and/or sandybridge?
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I am thinking of changing to PC heating as i have a spare Pentium D
My Q6600 B0 @ 3Ghz system draws just under 90 watts at the socket, while playing games it goes to about 220 watts.
Looking to upgrade to SB so will be able to compare, just not sure when that is tho, sooo tempted lol but my Q6600 seems to do everything I need. I might just buy the I5-2500k and frame it on my wall
Been running a q6600 at 3.60 for a couple of years. It used to have an external radiator which was like an under-desk heater 
Replacing it with an i7 sb this week. But only because I found a deal which included a corsair power supply and ram, thermaltake case with hotswap drive bays, asus p67 MB and DVD writer for under £500, otherwise I would have kept it for longer
Anyone ever done the figures on how much it costs to heat a room with a PC vs a radiator? Q6600 heating could be the future!
Replacing it with an i7 sb this week. But only because I found a deal which included a corsair power supply and ram, thermaltake case with hotswap drive bays, asus p67 MB and DVD writer for under £500, otherwise I would have kept it for longer
Anyone ever done the figures on how much it costs to heat a room with a PC vs a radiator? Q6600 heating could be the future!
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Soldato
must confess, between my OC-ed Q6600 and my 4870X2, this computer chucks out a fair bit of heat, so much there is a patch on the wall behind, starting to go gradually lighter!
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LMAO my system is really cold so on a hot day I just sit by it
My Q6600 B0 @ 3Ghz system draws just under 90 watts at the socket, while playing games it goes to about 220 watts.
Looking to upgrade to SB so will be able to compare, just not sure when that is tho, sooo tempted lol but my Q6600 seems to do everything I need. I might just buy the I5-2500k and frame it on my wall
What device are you using for measuring the power draw at wall socket?
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Hell yeah!