Q6600 - stock volts...

Smorgasbord · 5 Mar 2008 at 17:29

how far can you get one of these beast by simply using the stock volts and an AC pro Freezer 7 cooler??

I am hoping to hit 3GHz but wondered what your experiences might be??

Ta.

Rackerz · 5 Mar 2008 at 17:33

I'm not speaking from personal experience here but I hear that a Q6600 can get to 3Ghz on stock volts

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Smorgasbord · 5 Mar 2008 at 17:34

Nice, how hot would it normally run at at those clocks do we know??

I'm looking to a Quad upgrade, but want to find out if this will hit 3GHz and remain decent temps before rushing to get a Q9450 or somet

steve258 · 5 Mar 2008 at 17:34

Mine does and it's a B3 stepping so it should be easy for a G0 Q6600.

Smorgasbord · 5 Mar 2008 at 17:36

Nice, what temps does ** B3 run at?

steve258 · 5 Mar 2008 at 17:39

I'm running it at 3.375Ghz at 1.46V and it tops 70C according to TAT and that's running a F@H multi-core client. I'm using Tuniq Tower 120 and both the heatsink and CPU are lapped. Think it was 55C under load at 3Ghz stock volt.

Smorgasbord · 5 Mar 2008 at 17:40

Kwl, so the G0 Stepping should do it pretty easy i would assume xD

cheers.

tem07 · 5 Mar 2008 at 21:17

I've got the AC7Pro, Q6600 and IP35 Pro and Crucial Ballistix PC5300.
Got 3.00GHz on 1.4v, any lower and peripherals, monitor wouldn't boot.
Temps 45+ idle. Speedfan. Coretemp had extreme ones like 70 - 90 which I really doubt since my room temperature was 20 and system temperature was about 28.

So I guess you might be able to do it fine.

Smorgasbord · 6 Mar 2008 at 10:49

Or alternatively would hte 9450 be a good investment, just to get to 3GHz with the Pro 7 still??

also the 12MB cache is appealing and the 45nm technology.

I'm not an Xtreme overclocker but would like a 3GHz Quad and if the 9450 can do it just as good as a q6600, i'll get the 9450