Why is the Q6600 so easily overclocked?

tsinc80697 · 18 Jul 2008 at 00:36

Dont be a woman, I put near 1.7v through mine a couple of months ago

Managed 4.1ghz out of it

virdee2 · 18 Jul 2008 at 11:57

*** temps were you getting with 1.7 volts? thats a great speed from a 2.4ghz cpu :-)

Vigoro · 18 Jul 2008 at 11:58

tsinc80697 said:
Dont be a woman, I put near 1.7v through mine a couple of months ago Managed 4.1ghz out of it

ahh but was it stable enough for every day use and had a low enough temp aswell?

porta · 18 Jul 2008 at 16:35

tsinc80697 said:
Dont be a woman, I put near 1.7v through mine a couple of months ago Managed 4.1ghz out of it

i put 1.7v through mine and got 4.6ghz.

http://img26.picoodle.com/img/img26/4/7/16/f_110471m_1e9d8ff.jpg

Chaapa'ai · 18 Jul 2008 at 16:45

My only option in the bios after 1.6 vcore is 1.8... and I'm not that brave.

Pneumonic · 18 Jul 2008 at 17:44

porta said:
i put 1.7v through mine and got 4.6ghz.

http://img26.picoodle.com/img/img26/4/7/16/f_110471m_1e9d8ff.jpg

what motherboard is that?

porta · 18 Jul 2008 at 18:09

Pneumonic said:
what motherboard is that?

its a rampage

Pneumonic · 18 Jul 2008 at 18:18

porta said:
its a rampage

nice.. am torn between getting one or waiting for a Maximus Formula II

w3bbo · 18 Jul 2008 at 19:53

Had the maximus II for a couple of weeks now - impressive tbh

Pneumonic · 18 Jul 2008 at 19:57

yeah been looking at the stuff over on XS certainly looks nice... you running your QX in it?

w3bbo · 18 Jul 2008 at 20:02

Did, yeah. Got some new toys to play with atm though so its just sat in a box atm. One of the best BIOS's from Asus to date!

Pneumonic · 18 Jul 2008 at 20:07

nice

well going to give my Q6600 a last go at 4050 on the P5K-E with the new setup and then pop her into either a rampage or MF2 and see what I can get... not sure yet will wait and see some more clocks on the MF2 I think first... then shes off to the members mart

w3bbo · 18 Jul 2008 at 20:10

I'd sell pretty sharpish m8, Q6600 prices are plumeting now.

Pneumonic · 18 Jul 2008 at 20:18

well not to worried about price tbh will be a good little chip for someone

just with the moving havent had much time to play around lately... and these new fans are taking forever is getting really irritating

mattyfez · 18 Jul 2008 at 20:32

While we are on the subject, Im running 1.5x through mine in BIOS, shows 1.4x in windows, temps never get as high as 70, I have hit low/mid 60's on rare (synthetic stress) occasions.

Is this bad?

Pneumonic · 18 Jul 2008 at 20:36

nope thats fine temp/vcore wise although your CPU is eating some vcore for 3.36

Ben M · 18 Jul 2008 at 20:41

people saying "that voltage is too high for air" need to realise that the only difference between air and other cooling systems is how cool your chip will run, and his temps are fine.

temperature aside, voltage will have the same effect irrespective of the cooling.

also, make sure you check your temps regularly, if ambient goes up, then the temperature will rise, and 75 degrees is already about the maximum that people say is healthy.

mattyfez · 18 Jul 2008 at 20:41

Pneumonic said:
nope thats fine temp/vcore wise although your CPU is eating some vcore for 3.36

Tell me about it, but if I drop the vcore, everything turns to poo.

Im guessing its because my Q6600 is high VID, + medicore motherboard and RAM = mediocre overclock.

It does run at 3.4ghz, but its to unstable for sustained reliability. 3.5ghz is BSOD city.

Maybe a BIOS update will help, my current max vcore option is what its already running (1.5x)

Pneumonic · 18 Jul 2008 at 20:50

well overclocking is like being brave... its all just degrees of fear with volts, temps and mhz

w3bbo · 18 Jul 2008 at 21:30

Pneumonic said:
well overclocking is like being brave... its all just degrees of fear with volts, temps and mhz

So very true.