The chip I have was made in 2007, no idea how many owners it's had but I know of two people on these forums that have had it. I run mine at 2.7GHz and idle temps are 35c (in a case with very bad airflow) and load temps max out at 60c, usually hits 50c max when gaming. I have an Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 and it does a reasonable job at keeping it cool. Eventually I'll get a better motherboard and clock it to about 3.4GHz with a H50 or something I would think.
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Q6600 lifespan regarding temps.
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LMAO
This is the most hilarious statement I have read so far.
So for three your Q6600 is running at 1.65V!!
What is the speed of your Cpu?
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Pretty much this tbh.
Mine peaks at 72 occasionally, doesn't bother me. IF, and that is a big if, it ever breaks it will give me a good excuse to upgrade.
^^ especially as Prime95 temps of 80C or so - mean real-world games etc - absolute max about 65C
perhaps video encoding gets to 75C
I'vealso hoped myCPU may go pop - just so I can have an excuse to upgrade to Sandy - but no luck so far!
Sell it now and get £50 for the CPU (or up to £80 if you get lucky on the bay) and put it towards a SB build
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Sell it now and get £50 for the CPU (or up to £80 if you get lucky on the bay) and put it towards a SB build
Depends what you use it for. If all you do is game (like me), you don't need anything more at the moment.
Theyre certainly a robust cpu, i ran mine for ages at 3.8ghz, (1.51 vcore), maxed out in prime at 68-68-68-62, never seen it go over 60 in gaming. Couldnt kill it so i sold it and bought a q9550, bit of a silly upgrade tbh.
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If you've only had it a year I'd think it would last at least a couple more years at the temps you are running it at.
I don't know if it was just coincidence but my mates Q6600 died recently after running for 1-2 months at 80-90C load. It recently stopped being stable even at stock speeds up to 1.5v (once the temps had been rectified).
Whereas my Q6600 is a couple of months older and still going strong. (3.5ghz, 1.42v and 60C load).
However, it is obviously hard to prove or pin down the extent of head degradation so it may not have even contributed to the failure...
Whereas my Q6600 is a couple of months older and still going strong. (3.5ghz, 1.42v and 60C load).
However, it is obviously hard to prove or pin down the extent of head degradation so it may not have even contributed to the failure...
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Nah they run hot. I've built probably 100+ Q6600 rigs and owned about 10 over the years. They can vary with batches quite a bit on how hot they run and how well they clock. even under the stock cooler at stock speeds i'd not be surprised to see 70+C under load, some OEM machines at work even get to 85C+ when ibt'ed or primed. 77C is about avg. on an average cooler when overclocked. Before anyone brings up that 72 or 73C whatever it is thermal spec, thats Tcase as measured at the IHS and not core temp, tjmax is a lot higher.
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If things were how they were a few years back and the only reading we got was from the mobo sensor, a lot of people would'nt be that bothered as it'd be reporting 60-65C whereas when read from the DTS in the core they get bugeyed when it says 75C+ 
Those Athlon XPs and Pentium 4s etc.. were running just as hot in the core as the Core 2 + era, its just that we didn't have the opportunity to see it
Those Athlon XPs and Pentium 4s etc.. were running just as hot in the core as the Core 2 + era, its just that we didn't have the opportunity to see it 
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I'd have loved to see the true temp of a Prescott cpu