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***The Official Q6600 Overclocking Thread ***

Whats the difference between ultra and extreme?

Big.Wayne said:
Will you may well be the only person on these forums using that cooler, I don't think I ever heard of it before! :o

Did you order the TRUE? (mines just arrived!).

Did you buy the Wet n Dry sandpaper?
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I havent ordered the TRUE yet, I dont want to order anything at the moment as its spending money and my parents have a go at me saying I'm wasting it on rubbish and then I just get all ****** off and wish I never ordered it in first place so waiting abit more now.

Hesky82 said:
60C in Orthos with near 1.5v on air cooling in reality isn’t that bad dude! my E6600 would hit 50c under water with the same voltage.

An average Q6600 G0 will only need 1.3-1.4 to get to the same clock. I’ve never tried a quad on anything other than water cooling so I can’t comment on air cooled temps.
The best thing to do is just try it and see how it goes, lap your cooler at least and see what temps you run with a quad.
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But its technically 70 degrees under load I get and thats with Intel TAT, thats insane I was like gobsmacked when I seen that.
 
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willhub said:
Whats the difference between ultra and extreme?
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Two extra heatpipes on the eXtreme.

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Thermalright Ultra-120 eXtreme @ Anandtech
 
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willhub said:
But its technically 70 degrees under load I get and thats with Intel TAT, thats insane I was like gobsmacked when I seen that.
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Orthos also forces 100% workload on both cores, wonder why TAT runs your cpu so much hotter. 10c difference is quite a bit!!

Will, I think you should quit worrying and just take the chance! Worst case you have to upgrade your cooler, add a few fans and maybe lap your cpu for good measure.
 
Ummm in that review look at the OCZ Vindicator, at 3.7 its temps are about 4 degrees higher so I wonder what volts that CPU is at and what they using to test it.

Its all good saying I can take a chance but I dont want to yet due to monies, I'm saving up and when the time is right I'll get a Q6600, couple of coolers and that TRUE, I'm going to wait untill end of the month because at the moment do I really need to upgrade anything? My games run well and CPU is working fine at 3.4 so I can wait. I will deffenitly be doing something at the end of the month buy I'm not 100% set on getting the Q6600 actually, either Q6600, Dual Core Penryn, or Quad Core Penryn and hope the penryns overclock. I'm going to quit worrying about temps since they are not that bad from what I see. The thing that makes me worry more is because my old case has litrally the same temps and better on the GPU, I can understand why it does on the GPU since it had 2 80mm fans blowing at it but have you seen my old case??? Its god awfull compared to this excellent Antec P182 but it did cool well to say it was all 80mm fans apart from the 120 on the CPU Cooler and also 120 at front.
 
Big.Wayne said:
Its setup in a garage with the cold winter air bringing the ambients down, also being cooled by a 120mmx38mm *Screamer* its nots an enviroment that can sustain human life but still a nice result by Pneumonic :cool:
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An open window :P I wasnt going to get "that" cold! not till my yorkfield arrives at any rate :)

3906mhz was quite achivable at room temps, and I run 24/7 @ 3825mhz where the machine can fold 24/7 @ near silent RPM speeds on the fans.. point is the heatsink is well worth it 3825mhz 24/7 and near silence is no worse than a lot of good water setups
 
I wont get 3.8 on a quad tho with my mobo, guess its the FSB really that limits it, well dunno if Vdroop would be worse with a quad but 1.55V is MAX and I think thats about 1.52V load with my E6600, dunno if its worth messing with this P35 and wacking a quad in it at any time.
 
Big.Wayne said:
Good results anyway!

Quite a large difference between the two temps though. I used to do what you are doing now but in the end I was always disappointed when I brought the PC in from the cold, put the quiet fans back on and closed the case.
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:) yeah was a difference outside air was cold and the rig certainly sucks in it.. 3906mhz was in a very warm room as well.. would guess you could take 4/5c off those temps for a "normal" ambient.. g/f was ill that day lol turned the heating onto thermonuclea war mode


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3825 temps at a normal ambient very little increase in vcore for the 3906 clock so would imagine not much high than these
 
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Pneumonic said:
:) yeah was a difference outside air was cold and the rig certainly sucks in it.. 3906mhz was in a very warm room as well.. would guess you could take 4/5c off those temps for a "normal" ambient.. g/f was ill that day lol turned the heating onto thermonuclea war mode


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3825 temps at a normal ambient very little increase in vcore for the 3906 clock so would imagine not much high than these
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What windowblinds theme is that you are using?
 
im having no luck with my q6600, wont even let me get into windows at 8 x 375 ? which i could do fine on my e6400 so i know its not the rest of the system letting me down, any ideas ? got the voltage at 1.275v in bios which equates to about 1.2v in windows and under load? at 2.8ghz it seems really stable, and hits about 60oc under load with all 4 cores been utilized.

Rest of system is in sig

windows and orthos also seem to think my cpu is running at 3150mhz as well which is a bit odd, but tat and cpuz say the correct speed
 
Well i have put it back to 9 now, and running 333mhz fsb which is giving me 3ghz, the ram is running 1:1 2.1v at 6 - 6 - 6 - 18, temps are hitting 70 with all 4 cores loaded, seems a bit high...

If i increase the vcore is it going to raise the temperatures a lot ?
 
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