Q6600 OC - cooler question

Rimsy · 20 Mar 2013 at 14:22

In a last ditch attempt to wring a little extra performance from my archaic P45 / E8600 /GTX280 rig I decided I'd try a Q6600 (picked up cheap second hand).
Now currently my E8600 is air cooled and overclocked to 3.8 GHz using the stock intel cooler it came with.
My intention is to OC the Q6600 to around 3.2GHz - am i likely to need to replace the cooler to achieve this or will the stock intel cooler that came with my E8600 suffice?

Many thanks

RJC · 20 Mar 2013 at 14:46

I would look at a new aftermarket cooler, the cooler which come with the E8xxx range of CPUs is smaller than the cooler which came with Q6600.

I did the opposite to what your doing, went from the Q6600 to the E8600.

j.col · 20 Mar 2013 at 17:35

I done similar to OP, bought a Q6600, fitted the stock cooler, overclocked it, barely got it to 2.8Ghz before it shut down running Intel Burn test.
As u have a P45 mobo, you should be able to get to 3.4 at least, and with a low vid G0 you may even get it 3.8+ but this will depend on the cooler.
Just keep an eye on the MM. you should pick up a decent cooler at around £20,
Even seen a Prolimatech Megahalams go for £15 last week with a black apache fan fitted.

Rimsy · 20 Mar 2013 at 17:43

Cheers guys - will get a freezer 2 and see how I get on with that. Only putting off the inevitable but since I only play wow I'm loathed to spend much money on upgrading!

greenbrucelee · 22 Mar 2013 at 10:00

I had a tuniq tower on my e8400 which was clocked to 4GHz and it will fit a Q6600.

My temps at full load were 58 in winter with all the heating on and 48 in the summer.

doyll · 22 Mar 2013 at 13:23

You might check out the **B Grade** heatsinks. Usually some good deals to be had. There's a NZXT Havik 140 for £30.00 and TC14PE for £54.98 there now. Couple days ago an Alpenfohn K2 was £29.00
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=595&catid=678

monkeys · 22 Mar 2013 at 17:52

Rimsy said:
In a last ditch attempt to wring a little extra performance from my archaic P45 / E8600 /GTX280 rig I decided I'd try a Q6600 (picked up cheap second hand).
Now currently my E8600 is air cooled and overclocked to 3.8 GHz using the stock intel cooler it came with.
My intention is to OC the Q6600 to around 3.2GHz - am i likely to need to replace the cooler to achieve this or will the stock intel cooler that came with my E8600 suffice?

Many thanks

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With a new cooler (mine is arctic cooler pro), your spec is v acheveable and can run 24/7 reliably.

andy_mk3 · 22 Mar 2013 at 17:56

I had my Q6600 under an Arctic Freezer 7 with no issues at 3.4GHz.

Rimsy · 23 Mar 2013 at 15:40

Have managed to get it to 3.2GHz (weirdly it booted at 3.2 after installing it - motherboard had set it to 8x400 all by itself which i thought was a little weird) and the temps are fine - gets up to about 58'c after an hour of LinX so stability is ok aswell.

The problems arise when trying to push it any futher as I've not really dabbled in overclocking since running dual celerons on an abit BP-6

Seems there is a little more to it these days than just fudging around with FSB's/dividers and vcore tweaking.

Managed to get it to boot into windows (9x400) but computer restarted when trying to run Heaven and then lost all my settings. Trying to get it back to boot at 3.6 didnt work out!!
Guess ihave some reading to do!

adzi*adam · 23 Mar 2013 at 20:02

I have a xigmatec dark knight push and pull set up i was seing 80 degreese on ibt at 3.5ghz these q6600 can run hot pushed to there limits passed 1.4 vcore

monkeys · 24 Mar 2013 at 14:59

IMO 80 is too hot for long term reliability.

Rimsy, it could be the voltages are too low, hence overclocking probs but where you are at is a good clock speed to run v reliably continuously. Temps are absolutely fine.

MadMatty · 25 Mar 2013 at 20:13

My Xigmatech S1283 single fan cools my Q6600 (3.6g 1.475v) to around 70c at load when i'm video encoding. It used to be nearer tp 60c when new but I haven't cleaned out the heatsink in the last 4 years! so im sure theres room for improvement

Marine-RX179 · 25 Mar 2013 at 20:25

Rimsy said:
Cheers guys - will get a freezer 2 and see how I get on with that. Only putting off the inevitable but since I only play wow I'm loathed to spend much money on upgrading!

You E8600 will do much better than the Q6600, considering WOW pretty much only use 1 core...just overclock it to 4.2GHz...or higher if you can.

j.col · 25 Mar 2013 at 20:40

@OP what is your ram rated at?
also my old Dfi P45 mobo prefered the x8 multi than the x9 once i got over 3.2, so maybe worth playing around with it

monkeys · 26 Mar 2013 at 17:28

Marine-RX179 said:
You E8600 will do much better than the Q6600, considering WOW pretty much only use 1 core...just overclock it to 4.2GHz...or higher if you can.

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No way with artic cooler you can clock it at 4.2ghz...not that easy! Try liquid nitrogen :-)

greenbrucelee · 27 Mar 2013 at 20:17

I overclocked my e8400 g0 stepping to 4ghz on air with a tuniq tower. I did have it at 4.2 at some point but I didn't like the temps. At that time the tuniq tower was the best. I doubt the artic cooler could have done aswell.