q6600 max safe temps and what is your machine getting?

[graysky]

I'm waiting for the rumored late April price cuts when the Q6600 will be around $500. I'm thinking about either that quad chip, or a E6600/6700. I'm pretty familiar with people pushing the 6600 and 6700 over 3.2 GHz. I'm not really sure about the O/C potential of the Q6600.

Anyone in here have this quad chip and if so are you overclocking it? Is 9x333 easily done? What about 9x400? Also, what MB are you using?

Thanks!

 

[dragonsprayer]

at current prices why would anyone buy a q6600? at $850 spend another $125 and get the unlocked multiplier and probably a better chip

 

[graysky]

at current prices why would anyone buy a q6600? at $850 spend another $125 and get the unlocked multiplier and probably a better chip

I'm talking about pricing post April cuts... the Q6600 is supposed to be $530.

 

[Crimson_Yachiru]

you would probably need watercooling to get 400fsb, but 333 is easy with the tuniq tower.

40/56 c idle/load at 9 * 333, all voltages stock on a gigabyte 965p-s3

 

[graysky]

THanks for the info.. what about the Ninja +?

 

[Talon]

Based on comparison reviews between the Tuniq Tower and the Ninja I'd have to say the performance is probably pretty similar, 2-3C diff higher maybe and probably lose stability with OC 1-200mhz sooner than the Tuniq.

To Dragonsprayer: L2read posts before replying. Saves space and time of others correcting you on incorrect assumptions.

 

[graysky]

According to the Intel spec sheets the max recommended Tcase temp for the QX6700 appears to be 64.5C:

http://download.intel.com/design/processor/datashts/31559202.pdf

I quoted Aivas47a from this thread. Check out that pdf he talks about. Here's Table 27 on page 74 where they show the max temp for the tcase should be 62 C.

If I'm understanding that correctly, the tcase temp (which is measured at the top of the heat spreader NOT the internal core temps) shouldn't exceed 62C. That said, what temps are people getting with this chip on air cooling tcase or tjunctions)?

I'd like to see temps from a mildly o/c'ed machine too like 9x333 with a good hsf and good case. I'm thinking about getting the thermalright ultra-120 with a Scythe SFF21F fan in an antec p180 case.

Thanks all.

 

[graysky]

you would probably need watercooling to get 400fsb, but 333 is easy with the tuniq tower.

40/56 c idle/load at 9 * 333, all voltages stock on a gigabyte 965p-s3

Does this mean you're running a q6600 @ 9x333? I'm assuming you're using the tuniq tower then?

 

[Badnatured]

So what OC'd speeds are people with quad cores getting? And are they signifigantly quicker than say a e6600 at the same speed?

 

[gtracer93]

It's very common for most OC'ers to go to about 3.4 ghz with a Q6600 before having to up the voltage. I have an EVGA 680i SLI motherboard with 4GB of SLI memory and a 9800 GX2. I'm overclocked with just air cooling and at max benchmarking, I never get over 54C at the core. I use RealTemp to monitor the heat of all 4 cores and its fine.

DuoOrb is my CPU cooler, with some artic silver compound. I also have 3 80mm case fans and one 250mm case fan not including the 2 fans on my power supply.

Just to be safe I did up the voltage to my Q6600 v0.125. Doesn't hurt it much. But just air cooling, I don' t know that you'd want to go much faster than this but the PC is smoking fast!!! Huge different over stock settings I can say that much. I get about 385 fps in Call of Duty 4.

Running a Mirrored Raid 1 set for my OS with 2 Seagate 7200.10 250GB SATA II drives and then RAID 5 for my data set where my games are loaded and stuff with 3 more Seagate 7200.10 250GB SATA II drives. These 3 together yield much better performance than what you'd get out of a WD Raptor drive. I push 150MBs, raptor gets about 95MBs sustained. I saved $70 and have twice the storage! Only thing that would improve the performance some, would be a hardware accelerated sata raid card with a PCIe slot. This would take the host cpu from making the hard drive calculations and allow a hardware card like Promise or LSI to do it. Onboard SATA II is limited in Vista to 135MBs on the bus itself. But if you go to a PCIe Raid Card, you can go up to 300+MBs. That's where you can move to like a 5 drive RAID 5 set and see some good performance from the drives!

But overclocking a Q6600 is simple. My benchmarks rate me higher than the Extreme Editions. But not higher than the new i7 Cores and that will always be that way because of the new DMA setup for Direct Memory access and the front bus saying goodbye. Amazing improvement there that overclocking can't compete with. =)