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q6700?

Bozebo

Bozebo

Bozebo

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Hi, a friend has purchased a q6700 as part of his new rig (q6600 G0 seems to not exist for ~£120 anywhere now?)

I heard they run hot but most of those articles saying so are years old, are the newer ones cooler? It's like the early q6600s and the newer ones: my q6600 G0 runs at about 48C load OC to 3GHz with an AC Freezer 7 Pro at 55%, where the older ones run much hotter.

I promised I would get my friends q6700 to 3GHz, with the same cpu cooler as me. Do you see this possible without running it hot? It's rated at 71C "max" I do believe. Also, if i lowered the multiplier to 9 would it effectively be a q6600? Is the only difference the multiplier, I would expect companies to do annoying stuff like that simply to release more products (*cough* 9800gt *cough*).

Anyway, I am relatively sure it won't be a problem considering the P5QL Pro is apparently able to get appropriate OCs and the 4890 will be the bottleneck even at 2.66 GHz cpu (not saying it's a weak card).
 
They use the same g0 stepping as the later (and cooler) q6600s, so they should perform very similarly. The temperatures will depend on your cooler, but any decent one like an Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 should keep it cool enough.

3Ghz is a pretty mild overclock for that chip, so you should not have too much trouble i'd imagine.
 
nice nice. I will attempt a nice 3.2, then 3.4. I know I will probably manage 4 but it would lower the lifetime and use excess energy so I will probably dial it down. I got my q6600 to 3.8 on this HORRIBLE motherboard. If i use dual channel mem I can manage 4 but for the same reasons I would prefer 3.4 or something.

Thanks for answering my queries
 
I got an OEM Q6700 a couple of months ago to replace an E6300. I used the old heatsink (an Arctic Cooling Freezer 7) and am running it at 3.3GHz without any problems. Temps are fine.
 
JeremyW said:
I got an OEM Q6700 a couple of months ago to replace an E6300. I used the old heatsink (an Arctic Cooling Freezer 7) and am running it at 3.3GHz without any problems. Temps are fine.
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That's good to hear. Looking forward to messing with a q6700 ^_^
 
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