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***The Official Q6600 Overclocking Thread ***

Did you apply the thermal paste as per instructions for quad cores?

(Line across the words)

A resit might drop temps a bit but they are nothing to really worry about. That is 4 cores at 3.6ghz, massive amount of power. :D
 
Kyle009 said:
is it possible to clock a Q6600 to 3GHz on Stock Cooler? Ive scanned through the thread but couldnt find a direct answer.
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Probably, the Q6600 G0 is basically the same processor as the QX6850 which will come with a bog standard cooler.

Try it and then look at your temps. If they are to high then swap the cooler for a better one. I think you should be able to do it though. The thermal tolerance for a Q600 G0 at stock speeds is 71C but if you crank it up to the QX6850 speeds then you need to look at the thermal spec for the 6850 which is 64.5C

Cheers
 
yeah when i finally order my pc im going to go for the G0 and ill try to OC it to 3ghz.

Although ive never oc'd in my life, where would be a good place to read up on it. Ive read the stickies and have a rough idea. Im planning to get the DS3 Gigabyte motherboard.
 
^^Getting it to 3GHz is no problem, it should be ok on the stock cooler, i swapped it straight away fro my old TT Big Typhoon. I'd advise you to buy a new HS&F, only another £25-40, gives you peace of mind and the ability to overclock abit more, maybe 3.2-3.4GHz.
 
3.9...

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I know this Q6600 (G0 stepping) can go higher but my RAM is holding me back :mad: it's already on the lowest ratio and running @ 850MHz, just wont go higher. I do have 8GB though, but i'd rather have more RAM than less RAM thats slightly faster.

Specs in sig.
 
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Im thinking that i have got a bad clocking chip, needs 1.5v in bios to be stable at 3.4 :(. What is the maximum voltage i should be looking at?, bearing in mind that it only just hits 60C under water at this point.
When people quote voltages, are these in bios or cpuz? because at idle my vcore droops by 0.05v and anything up to 0.125v under load, is this normal?

Alex
 
I have disabled EIST (Ehanced Intel Speedstep Technology) in the BIOS but when I run CPU-z I can still see the muliplier and fsb changing when the machine is idle!

How do I disable Speedstep on the Abit IP35
 
Alex40k said:
Im thinking that i have got a bad clocking chip, needs 1.5v in bios to be stable at 3.4 :(. What is the maximum voltage i should be looking at?, bearing in mind that it only just hits 60C under water at this point.
When people quote voltages, are these in bios or cpuz? because at idle my vcore droops by 0.05v and anything up to 0.125v under load, is this normal?

Alex
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Hmmm my G0 does 3.8 on 1.5 and the temperature is only 42c idle on water. Your temp seems too high, what water cooling is it?
If it's already at 60c i wouldn't go higher any higher on the voltage.
 
MR.B said:
Hmmm my G0 does 3.8 on 1.5 and the temperature is only 42c idle on water. Your temp seems too high, what water cooling is it?
If it's already at 60c i wouldn't go higher any higher on the voltage.
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It is about 42 idle and 60 load at 1.5v, using a Pa120.2 with swiftech apogee with quiet fans.
 
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