Q6600 on AC7 Pro

krisboats · 12 Jun 2010 at 20:40

Just got myself a second hand q6600 and had a bash at OC'ing it. Got it being cooled with a Freezer 7 Pro and the VID is 1.2875. Managed to get it running at 3.0ghz on 1.3v, and managed 3.5ghz at 1.55.

Temps were under 70c at 1.5v but the highest i could get it to was 3.45ghz. The little extra jump to 1.55 bumped it to around 78c.

Just wondering if it's worth picking up a corsair H50 and seeing how far it will go or whether i should just leave it at 3.45 and be done with it.

Cheers in advance!

chipps101 · 12 Jun 2010 at 21:04

you dont need to go to the expense of the h50. there are plenty of coolers around the £30 mark that are much better than the ac7 like the fenrir, the zalman 10x's, the thermolab barim and the thermalright ifx-14, any of those will handle the q6600 much better than the ac7.

Serenityxo · 12 Jun 2010 at 22:15

Q6600 @ 3.2GHz - 1.3v running IntelliBurn, ~55 - 58c with the H50-1

~39c idle atm, until I get identical fans in push/pull setup

chipps101 · 13 Jun 2010 at 00:46

when i had my system in my coolermaster stacker 831 with my q6600 @ 3.3ghz - 1.45 i was getting 57 -58 running ibt and idling at about 27c, now that my system is in a fractal r2 the temps are about 10c higher under load