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***The Official Q6600 Overclocking Thread ***

sepulchre said:
All depends on how far you want to push the quad though tbh, mine runs at 3.5Ghz and never goes over 59C under prime using the AF7
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That may be the case if you have an *UBER* low volt chip and happen to be running it in a cold garage but there isn't a snowballs chance in HELL an average Arctic cooler Freezer 7 Pro can keep an overclocked quad 3500MHz at 59°C Full Prime Small FFTs load, its just not happening.

It's not a good heatsink even for duo cores so no way is it a good choice for a quad core, stick with the stock cooler or buy a better heatsink.
 
I had the Artic Freezer 7 Pro for my Q6600 and it was crap. It would idle around 50 degrees and I once saw it go up to 80 degrees when I was encoding and playing a game. I replaced it with the Nochtua NH-U12F and it idles at 22 degrees now and I've never seen it above 30. These temps are all at stock speeds.
 
Dela said:
I had the Artic Freezer 7 Pro for my Q6600 and it was crap. It would idle around 50 degrees and I once saw it go up to 80 degrees when I was encoding and playing a game. I replaced it with the Nochtua NH-U12F and it idles at 22 degrees now and I've never seen it above 30. These temps are all at stock speeds.
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You sure you had it seated properly :confused:

Mine sits at 31,30,28,28 and under load at 52,52,50,50

And that on stock volts of 1.225 in bios and clocked to 3GHz

So the AF7 is far from crap :p
 
Big.Wayne said:
That may be the case if you have an *UBER* low volt chip and happen to be running it in a cold garage but there isn't a snowballs chance in HELL an average Arctic cooler Freezer 7 Pro can keep an overclocked quad 3500MHz at 59°C Full Prime Small FFTs load, its just not happening.

It's not a good heatsink even for duo cores so no way is it a good choice for a quad core, stick with the stock cooler or buy a better heatsink.
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Sorry but I cant agree with you there, my Q6600 VID 1.3125v (a pretty poor one in the scale of things) sits in my rig beside me on my desk in a room at 21C, in an Antec 900, I've just run prime, small FFT's for a couple of hours and get these temps -

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I recommended a freezer pro as a decent upgrade cooler for his e2160, he’s running around 50-55c prime load at 1.45v which I'm happy with.

Personally I feel a q6600 deserves a better cooler, but it’s still a mighty fine item for the price and way better than stock cooling.
 
bikes said:
You sure you had it seated properly :confused:

Mine sits at 31,30,28,28 and under load at 52,52,50,50

And that on stock volts of 1.225 in bios and clocked to 3GHz

So the AF7 is far from crap :p
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You're probably right. I think I had an iffy one as one of the plastic pins was bent and it was a really pain to fit. Although after a long struggle I got it seated as best as I could. It's not crap, but there are a lot better ones out there.
 
Hesky82 said:
Cheeky sepulchre! you’re not running prime small FFT's there dude.

Easy would bite your leg off lol

Still very good temps! :)
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You know I was wondering :D

I've selected small FFT's when I launch Prime but it doesn't seem to be running it. Will go and figure this out..

edit/ Run as administrator and its fine doh!

OK will run it and post another valid screeny.
 
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My gorgeous Q6600 G0 arrived on Friday.

Only just had time to have a play, currently at 3GHz (333x9) with 1.35v going through it, drooping to 1.232v :O.
Currently OCCTing, been going for an hour now. Temps peaking at 52deg with a Arctic Freezer 7 cooling it.

Anyway, I'm running it in a P5KC with 2gb of OCZ pc6400 stuff.

Happy :)
 
Cheers :D

Aye, its not a bad case, tbh I think the only reason the freezer 7 works as well as it does for me is because of the airflow this case is able to produce even without the fans running at full whack, so granted its not the best cooler but in the right case its more than capable.
 
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