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Q6600 RIP

I smell cheesy troll. The Q6600 still hasn't been beaten to the ground as far as I'm concerned. Got mine sitting here @3.6GHz am pretty happy with it's performance.
 
I love my Q6600, when I move on it's going into another rig underclocked as I think the old gal deserves a nice gentle retirement.
 
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I love my Q6600, when I move on it's going into another rig underclocked as I think the old gal deserves a nice gentle retirement.
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Agreed, I still love mine and seems to cope well in usage. Think im gonna drop mine into a HTPC or something for its retirement when I move on to Core I25 or whatever they are on by then
 
mine still going strong too - 3.54gig @ 1.565 (bios Vcore) - 1.51 in reality

air - and gets VERY hot, but also very stable :) - small prime gets to 79C after 15 minutes

but don't get any crashes in general use, games etc :)
 
Well Ijust shoved a Q6600 into a system using an E6600 and I can say it really does make a difference.... The little time I got to play with it, as its not my system I shoved the upgrade into, I noticed everything was as good as my i5.. Really did appear to be a rather solid and very easy to overlock and get stable CPU... Can see why they are so highly rated...

Q6600 is far from dead IMO. Seems it can still hold its own.
 
Mine runs either 3.2ghz @ 1.325, or 3.6ghz @ 1.475. It would probably do 4ghz under water, it just gets hot after 1.4v. Great chip.
 
I did some tests the other day - mainly at idle - and there wasn't much difference in power consumption 3.5 gig at 1.51V and 3.2 gig at 1.31V

I think it was about 20W difference at Idle (approx)

and I think more like 40-50W under load (from memory)

all in all - not enough saving in electricity for me - so back at 1.51V :) !!
 
mine won't clock no more only cos a powersupply blew up while it was overclocked and yes it was a decent brand (OCZ)

still works through
 
I had a E6600 >>> E6850 >>> QX6700 all ran perfectly on my current mainboard.

Still have my E6850 chip in one of my servers works like a trooper.
 
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i7 is boring compared to Q6600 imo.. good 'old' times. If you have a decent (x38) mobo with a Q6600 clocked past 3.2 you can still use it for some time to come. No reason to upgrade, just bundle it with a proper gfx card and you're set.
 
Have one of the original Q6600's and I have to say it's just taken everything I've thrown at it for the past 2-3 years now! Usually after a few years you start to notice your PC struggling with some of the newer programs/games out but with this it still feels like it did when I got it*

*obviously also dependant on GPUand other hardware etc and also might be due to going W7 over XP now lol

Could we have a mod change the thread title to 'Q6600 f t w' instead? :)
 
Ive been undervolting mine at 1.05 volts for 3ghz since the day I bought it about 2 years ago. My chip has a 1.2125 vid and im pretty sure it has plenty of headroom in a decent board. Thread fails tbh.
 
Just built a "second" rig with a Q6700 and I'm well pleased with it. The i7 is all "new fangled" and runs like a dream. But I've had more satisfaction out of getting the "older" tech quad running along nicely.

Me thinks the Q6600 (and Q6700) will be around for a long time yet!!!
 
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