I agreed, stock cooling at 3.6 is HOT, if 3.1 is okay.
Maybe I'm lucky on the motherboard chips I have.
The mainboard I used is Gigabyte EP35-DS3 with rev 2.0,
it support FSB1600 OC. With the stock cooler, at first I tried 350x9 (3.1), 380x9(3.4) and then finally 400x9 (3.6)
It was EASY...
More importantly is the model of the Q6600 you have, if you run the CPU-Z, you will
know which "stepping" model you got. B3 stepping run hotter than G0 stepping. The
G0 can overclock with its original intel stock cooler
"SL9UM" 2.40 GHz Q6600 1066 MHz 65 nm => B3 stepping (old)
"SLACR"...
4.0Ghz easy?? That doesn't sound right, what kind of high end cooling are you using to get that out of a Q6600?
Yupe, Q6600 with G0 stepping can OC to 3.6Ghz or 4.0Ghz
here is my setup : Q6600 G0 stepping
Mainboard : Gigabyte EP35-DS3 Rev.2.0
RAM : 4GB DDR2-800 Corsair6400...
I was a Q6600 user before, it can be OC to 3.6Ghz to 4.0Ghz easily :)
Question 1:
Don't worry, multiplier of 6x at idle is normal. It is the Intel's multi-core technology,
it safe power during 6x timing, full load will jump to 9x. For AMD, it will always stay
constantly at their...
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