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***The Official Q6600 Overclocking Thread ***

rIcK said:
b3 stepping on air here, 1.35v 3.2 ghz overclock prime 95 stable....

So not too bad ;)

Ill be getting my mates G0 later this week and hes basically said we can swap cpus if his overclocks more since he has no interest in running past stock speeds :)

So fingers crossed his breaks 3.4!
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screenies?


what are your load temps?
 
So far

First stop 320Mhz = 2.88Ghz

Stock volts, G33 Gigabyte in X-Qpack case. Need an intake fan methinks :)

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Just started clocking again today. It primed fine overnight at 3.0Ghz @ 1.4 (bumped up the voltage, even though it didnt need it yet).

Just testing at 3.2GHz. Once that is stable, I'll post results etc and then keep going.

Got 8800 GTX coming my way next week, so will run the 3DMarks again to compare to 1900 XTX. I will not put the new gfx card in the water cooling loop, unlike the current one, so it will help the OC on the Q6600.
 
Don't ask for prime95 tests, because I didn't save them. New m/b arrived and citylink didn't deliver, so I had to do a 80 mile round trip.

Anyway, installing windows again now.

Gigabyte p35 ds4, q6600 @ 3.2 , 1.33 in bios.

Tat 68 63 63 68
Coretemp 71 65 65 71

Thats on water, and the computer is in a conservatory, and it's darn hot in there.

Least it nice to know I didn't blow the chip, just the ds3p gave up. (I was worried because I lapped the cpu)
 
Jamie Edwards said:
I need to clock my Quad to 2.8GHz (if I get a Quad) on Air, using a Ultra 120 and 1600rpm fan. Is this unrealistic (B3 stepping)
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My Q6600 is on air (ultra 120) and has been stable at 3ghz all day, running some burn-in right now just to make sure it is rock solid but so far so good. :)
 
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cHodAX said:
My Q6600 is on air and has been stable at 3ghz all day, running some burn-in right now just to make sure it is rock solid but so far so good. :)
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do'h, well was hoping to come in and laugh at you all with my great B3 Q6600, laugh because i installed and it seemed to be booting with me E6600 steppings which would have been at 3.65Ghz and 1.5v. but because on this gigabyte board i seem to not be able to see the bios bootup screen , and in bios it wouldn't actually say what speed it was running. i got into windows to find all settings except fsb speed to have been enforced :p so not quite 3.6Ghz but 2.133Ghz cos of 8 multi :p

not sure how it ignored only the fsb, but used the 8 multi and user mem timings but there ya go. back to bios i go.
 
Running Vista 64 at the moment and the benchmark scores seem well down in 3Dmark06, the Sisoft Sandra scores come back fine so I am guessing the nVidia Vista 64 drivers aren't ready for primetime yet? If so then I am back off the XP SP2 for a while, ho-hum.
 
3.6Ghz and rising. lol 3dmark 2k1, just happened to find the install on in random folder while i was looking for something 32k at 2.4Ghz, 41k at 3.2Ghz, think that might just be a little cpu limited. 06 jumped from 10.5to 12.5k, not all from cpu score, infact very little, but the extra speed enabled the gpu to stretch its legs, think scores of around 4200/4900 at 2.4Ghz and at 3.2Ghz same gpu clocks it was 4700/5400 or so.


EDIT:- massive DO'H , i forgot to switch over the power monitor i got from my other rig. i wanted to see how much the E6600 was using maxed out and at idle, then compare it to the quad.
 
easyrider said:
Got any screenies with prime?

Benchmarking stable is not stable...
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its not stable in your opinion, which i don't care about. 3dmark is as far into useless benchmarks as i'll go. beyond that, stability for me is fairly easy to work out. i'll leave my computer on, for months at a time, i'll play multiple games, download hundreds of gigs of data which will be unrared, par checked, decoded. i'll encode some dvd's, re-encode stuff so i can watch it on my 360 or whatever else. if it can stand up to that, its stable, if it can't its not stable.

i also don't seem to recall claiming it was stable. 3.6Ghz is what i got about 5 mins in to overclocking. 3.7Ghz seems to be fine also, or, relatively fine. 3.6Ghz was fine in 2k1, but stopped working in 2k6, only 2k6 crashed though, no bluescreen. so i went up to 3.7Ghz, as you do :p think i pumped it to 1.475v, running through 2k6 now and seems ok so far. though, think i just realised its running through at stock gpu settings, which just means i can't compare the score. was also running 450mhz x8 before, wasn't sure if it was cpu or mem/timings/voltage for chipsets and stuff so dropped down and upped the multi for now.
 
Wow these quads do run hot ! Have had mine (B3 Q6600) for a day or so now, using with the setup in my sig. Need to know a few things like at what temp do thse quads start throttling ? currently I am at 3ghz (7x430) on stock volts of 1.2750 with idle temps of 50, 46, 51, 46 on all four cores. On load the temps are between 70-75c and each core stays at 100% usage, proving there is no throttling taking place.

The cpu can overclock to 3.6 but obviously the temp sky rockets. Even at stock volts and an overclock of 3.2ghz with all 4 cores loaded temps hit 75c+, then what I notice is that 3 of the cores drop down to nearly 0% usage and one core stays at 100%. I think this is throtling in effect ? correct me if I`m wrong.

I have thought of buying a better air cooler than the current ninja I am using. What is the best aircooler I could buy from OCUK and in your opinions will it make enough of difference compared to what I have already so i can at least reach that 3.2ghz on stock volts. Thanks.
 
seem to be needing around 1.54 at 3.8Ghz and it will fail a 2k6 run but runs 2k1.

gets a little toasty at that voltage and temp , in i think just the first test it uses 2 cores, they both were hitting 60-63C, other two cores hugely lower. i probo have a little leway for more speed with a little more voltage, not sure its worth the power/bills though. honestly other than for a few 2k6 runs to make my epeen feel good i'll most likely drop the speed down to have a not to insane idle wattage usage.

now the really really important question is this, do i cook something, or do i get a dominos tonight?
 
Cob said:
Mine appears to throttle at 85c.

And the Ninja's probably as good as any other cooler.
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the thing about a quad core is, its 2x the amount of cores, but 2x the amount of surface area the heat is coming from. air coolers only get more efficient the more heat they have to get rid of because the temp difference between the air increases, more heat is transfered to the air.

the main thing is you get a sink big enough to spread out the heat and get air onto it otherwise it will build up. which means a tuniq tower, a thermalright 120 jobby, obviously the ultra extreme would be better than the other, the noctua really would be your choices for best cooling. afaik the ninja is quite a bit smaller than any of those three. they also tend to do a nice job of , with the right case providing air the route through the sink and right into a nice 120mm exhaust fan getting the heat out as quickly as possible.

i've got a decent watercooling setup. not sure if a different block might work better(fuzion at the mo) but it'll do. 2 rads external are as close to room temp as they'll go.

not a clue why but, i have 5 fans on rad, 3 120x38's that i almost always have off. and 2 sony mid speeds at 7v that i just can't hear. problem is the other day, while playing COH in dx10 2900xt killing glory with e6600 at 3.6Ghz those stupid fans had stopped, i noticed some artifacts in game, thought it was weird, glanced at fans, touched the rads and they were burning, really burning hot to the touch. just touching the rads jogged them enough to get the fans going.
 
B3 Stepping, and I cannot get above 2.7ghz.

Voltage increase makes no difference. I am sat here on default volts idling at 38/39 whilst running prime it occasionally hits 58.

It just doesn't want to play. It's not the board as I had my 6300 running at 410mhz FSB.

Not sure whats causing it. All the settings are the same as when I was running the dual core.

It's an Abit AW9D-MAX i975.
 
easyrider said:
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failed clock.

I dont need conjecture...

I want to know about the the chip


its that easy
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you don't need my conjecture, though its your opinion i'm not stable. so you can interject and say whatever you like, and what other people say back is largely irrelevant to you. that does seem in keeping with most of your posts around here.

i haven't tried a single clock and trying to get it stable yet, i haven't claimed stability. i was merely saying, but brief benchmarking that there is remote stability there and i can't be assed spending 8 hours trying to get your seal of approval, because i don't want it and never asked for it. if i was at 3.6Ghz and said, it can do superpi but not 3dmark, it tells you something about that speed, if i say it can't do superpi but can do other stuff it tells you something. if i said i ran 3dmark it passed fine so wow look how stable i am then maybe, just maybe you could actually post saying, but thats not really stable. but i didn't claim anything of the kind.

basically i've said, i've hit one speed, it can run some crap there, i'm moving on, it does let you know its got room for improvement. whereas if i said i'm at 3.2Ghz, at 1.65v, and i can't run anything, again, that would be saying with almost certainty that i wouldn't get stable there or anything above.
 
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