Q6600 on the way - advice

you should be pulling more than 46 gigaflops on that test ? should be up in the 50's no ? i'd tweak the ram settings until getting 50 +
 
thanks for all the replys, just checked my emails, the q6600 should be here tommorow :) Looking forward to a boost in games like bf:bc2.

Looking at the Hyper 212 and a few on MM, or if i were to increase my budget for a new one from ocuk what should i be looking at? Ideally not one too big as my case is only a cm 690 so not massive. (Quite like the look of this one if my case fits it, only £35 too, http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-072-AK)

thanks
 
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Better off getting a venomous X TRUE or something that will get that to 3.6ghz comfortably I am not sure the venom is able to tame a q6600 at high clocks.
But could be wrong.
 
Ok thank you, since the previous owner said he managed to hit 3.8ghz as a tester i think it might be worth me investing in something good as this has got to last me a while.

Will look at a TRUE if they fit ok in my case.
 
Cooler was a lapped TRUE black, lapped cpu and dual sharkoon silent eagle 2000's, also had 3 of the same fans in my case, 1 exhaust, 2 intake, one fitted in a scythe kama bay.

Lady in question is Candice swanepoel.:)
 
tom91x91 said:
Do any of the slightly more expensive coolers come with thermal paste already applied (like the AC7 does), i have no clue how to apply it!
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The top end air coolers as far as I know come with a small tube of the thermal paste so you'd have to apply it yourself, apart from that the Corsair H50 & H70s come with the paste already applied.

Its quite easy to do and will only take a second or 2. Some put a small size blob (size of a grain of rice) in the centre (top) of the CPU and then fit the heatsink, the weight and pressure of the heatsink will spread the paste, others put the same amount of paste and spread it evenly over the top of the cpu (use your finger wrapped in a small clean plastic bag, ie. sandwich bag)

You should have your CPU today :D
 
Hi guys, after dreading messing up taking my mobo out and fitting teh cooler, it seems to be ok, im currently running the q6600 at 3ghz and at 100% load running prime95 its hit 54c max after running for a while, do you think theres any headroom to go further? Im running stock volts and the stock vcore i think is 1.2375 , although cpu-z is showing 1.184 which im pretty sure isnt right (ive disabled EIST, is there anything else that needs disabling?)

Thanks to any advice :)
 
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Disable C1E as well, coretemp will display the true vid, cpuz will only display the current voltage being used, this will fluctuate depending on wether the system is at idle/load. 54c is pretty good.
 
My Q6600 is 3.4Ghz @ 1.30v when on full load (it's about 1.34v i think when not loaded). Running the 9x multi as well, but other's have more luck with the 8x multi. It starts stopping the cores when I try 3.6Ghz, so i haven't tried to stabilise at that speed yet as I was sorting my cooling first.

Temps with a CM Hyper 212 and 2x 120 fans are about 70C maximum on the hottest 2 cores at the moment.
 
Interesting thanks, set the fsb to 378 and upped vcore from 1.2375 to 1.3 so will try prime95 now :)

Cheers

edit: well 3.6ghz wasnt too stable :p ramped the vcore up to 1.4 and it ran prime95 for 5 mins then BSOD's with temps around 65 on full load. its currently at 3.2ghz stable with hardly any volts increase, i think 3.4 should be achievable with a little fiddly about.
 
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j.col said:
what was your ram speed at 3.6?
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erm 400*9 with 2.80 SPD i beleive it was running at 800mhz so stock :) Used to get much higher ram speeds with my old e6400 because of lower multiplyer needing higher FSB.

I'll get a pic in a second im currently playing around with 3.4, i think 3.6 might be achievable since its a very low VID chip and space monkey (who i bought it off in MM) said he reached 3.8/4.0 on it before.
 
Blue screen normally points to ram/nb voltages, make sure your ram is running at its rated voltage and try a couple of extra notches on the nb voltage, may be displayed in bios as mch voltage.
 
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