e6600 oc good or no?

[igloo15]

I have my e6600 at a 3.2ghz oc on a 1.4v its stable ran orthos and prime.

My 3Dmark06 is 11109

e6600 @ 3.2ghz
ddr800 crucial ballistix
8800gtx

Is this good compared to others or no?

 

[MarcVenice]

well youll find plenty of ppl with e6400's running at 3.2, but 3.2 sure ain't bad. I reckon it could go higher though

 

[igloo15]

Yeah I was hoping to go to 3.6 and If i boost the voltage to 1.5 or so I bet i could but the temps are at 40 idle 60 load so I think thats about as I high as I will be going

 

[MarcVenice]

stock HSF ? ambient temperature ? Used as5 ?

 

[igloo15]

I am using a zalman 9500 with the zalman paste. I don't know what the ambient temp is off the top of my head will go look at it when I get back to my apartment.

 

[InfoTiger]

If you are using x8, isn't the same as E6420?

 

[igloo15]

well i want a 1:1 with my ram so yes I am doing 8x400 but oh well I wanted 3.6ghz or 9x400 but thats probably not gonna happen so I think I will stick with 8x400.
The e6420 is rated at 2.1ghz with a 8x max multi

Doesn't matter to much to me though because I got the e6600 for 199 on sale at frys.com

 

[aigomorla]

zalman will only work up to voltage around 1.375Vcore REal. Thats after Vdroop.

After that, you'll notice your cores heating up really quickly, and things will get a bit too hot to handle.

A tuniq and ultra120 will allow you to push your voltage up to 1.42-1.45 Vcore on a nice day. Tuniqs are actually prefered over ultras for quad cores. This is a untested theory over at XS.

@ 1.5V water is manditory. Or your chip wont last you the better time of 2 yrs. If you dont keep that chip that long, then push it.

 

[MarcVenice]

40 idle sounds high to me on 1.4v, but some chips will do that, maybe you got a bit 'unlucky' as far as unlucky goes with an e6600 running at 3.2ghz. And yeah zalman is nice and quiet, but not suited for 'hardcore' overclocking, and when aiming for 3.6 you're pushing it. Also, you could try running an fsb of 420-430, if your board holds up, and your ram can be oc-ed a bit, then you got close to 3.4 when running 1:1.

Do remember though, cpu-clock > memory bandwith

 

[The-Noid]

40 seems oke. My guess is you have the fan either turned down to where it is silent or you are using the motherboard to slow fanspeed down.

 

[igloo15]

Actually I had something blocking one of the fans some paper thing that I did not notice was blocking one of the fans I removed it and my temps droped to about 36-39 idle and 55-58 load.

 

[cubeless]

6320 doing 3.4 with a gemini @ 1.4125v (cpuz sez 1.376) @ aroung 45c w/2 p95's running...

it is a little odd how the temps run up to 50c when doing nothing but p95, then drop if i do any browsing or anything... not like the load is dropping or throttling...

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: cubeless
6320 doing 3.4 with a gemini @ 1.4125v (cpuz sez 1.376) @ aroung 45c w/2 p95's running...

it is a little odd how the temps run up to 50c when doing nothing but p95, then drop if i do any browsing or anything... not like the load is dropping or throttling...

That's not odd at all. Windows is lowering the priority for Prime95, if you're also doing something else. If all that cpu has to worry about is Prime95, then Prime95 will get it's "full attention", causing your temps to rise a bit.

 

[soydios]

I'm running 401x8 on my E6600 at 1.375 volts, which translates to ~1.35 volts after Vdroop on my Asus P5W-DH. NB voltage is at 1.55V, FSB voltage is at 1.4V. Cooling is AS5 with a Zalman 9500 running at minimum speed. Case fans are at about 7V. Speedfan reports a maximum temperature of 58C for each core. I'm quite pleased with this overclock, considering the lower voltages and quiet cooling. Perhaps I'll shoot for the magic 400x9=3.6GHz this week.

 

[cubeless]

Originally posted by: myocardia

Originally posted by: cubeless
6320 doing 3.4 with a gemini @ 1.4125v (cpuz sez 1.376) @ aroung 45c w/2 p95's running...

it is a little odd how the temps run up to 50c when doing nothing but p95, then drop if i do any browsing or anything... not like the load is dropping or throttling...

That's not odd at all. Windows is lowering the priority for Prime95, if you're also doing something else. If all that cpu has to worry about is Prime95, then Prime95 will get it's "full attention", causing your temps to rise a bit.

hmmm... just that this hasn't been my experience on my amd builds (they just get hot and stay hot)... this is the first intel box i've done in many years...

 

[aclim]

well my idle temps are in my sig. I cant go much higher with mu 6600 because i gotta raise the vcore way to high to get 3.4-3.6

 

[Noubourne]

Idle temps are junk. They tell you almost nothing. They are never, EVER of any use at all without the inclusion of load temperatures as a comparison.

Load temps make and break overclocks.

I don't get why ANYONE concerned with cooling or overclocking would bother posting an idle temp unless they were concerned that they had a defective cooler, much less ONLY an idle temp.

 

[gramboh]

I'm the same way as the OP and aclim. I have a Week 46 "G" batch E6600 and get 3.2 @ 1.4 Bios (1.37 actual) and can do 3.4 @ 1.5/1.525 Bios (I forget which - about 1.47 actual under load). I didn't even bother trying faster than 3.4 since I still get Orthos crashes after 12+ hours and don't like the temps. With an Ultra 120 w/ Scythe 1200rpm S-Flex I idle about 36c on a hot day (25-26c ambient room temp) and as low as 29c on a cool day (probably 20c ambient).

To the OP, if you want to improve your gaming, OC that video card. My setup, E6600 @ 3.2, 8800GTS 640MB @ 610/1900 gets 10650 in 3DMark06. If you push your core/memory on the card you will be up into 12000's no question (and more FPS in games which is what counts). C2D @ 3.2 vs. 3.4 won't matter in games much.

 

[amenx]

Originally posted by: Noubourne
Idle temps are junk. They tell you almost nothing. They are never, EVER of any use at all without the inclusion of load temperatures as a comparison.

Load temps make and break overclocks.

I don't get why ANYONE concerned with cooling or overclocking would bother posting an idle temp unless they were concerned that they had a defective cooler, much less ONLY an idle temp.

Idle temps tell you a lot. Can be a good indicator of your case ambient temps. If your idle temps are 35 rather than 40, then your load temps will also likely be down a few degrees as well.