My Q6600 killed my DS3 board.... S3 taking over with even less vdroop !

[Markfw]

I checked my quads this AM, and one had a blank screen. So I tried to re-boot, no luck, so I went through all the debug procedures, and finally, last test was to put the Q6600 in a cheap ESC board (at stock), and the E4300 in the DS3. Sure enough, the Q6600 was fine (now in an S3) and the E4300 wouldn;t even post. I don;t have all the details worked out yet, but the S3 looks like it has less vdroop than the DS3 !!!! Setting them both to 1.4375, it was at 1.320 under load. Now its at 1.360 ! And my big typhoon cools as well or better than my Ninja Sythe

 

[RussianSensation]

I had the BT before and was extremely happy with it.

As far as the lower end Gigabyte boards, I can attest that they are excellent budget boards. I myself went for the DS3L model (P35 chipset) and last night cranked Q6600 to 3.5ghz with no changes to MCH or FSB. Don't see any reason to spend more than $100 on a board for Q6600 unless one wants features like 8 SATA ports. As a reference, the vdroop I have is very significant - 1.400V in the BIOS is reported as 1.32-1.34 in EasyTune 5 and same in CPU-Z.

Hmm...I wonder why your board died though.

 

[Markfw]

Yes, the board was running 24/7 @ 3.2 GHZ, running F@H 400x8, no problems at all, and just quit last night, re-setting bios, running a E4300, no disks, other memory, and tried every slot, just died.... No post... Very odd.

 

[CurseTheSky]

My guess would either be something tiny fell in the processor socket, or the board itself is faulty (rather than the chip killed the board).

 

[Markfw]

The machine had worked 24/7 for weeks @100%load, and just croaked. No visable damage either afterwards, but won't post with any CPU. The Q6600 just worked it to death !

 

[Narse]

Have you tried to boot the system with only one stick of ram? Trying taking out the stick right next to the cpu and see if it will post.

 

[Markfw]

Originally posted by: Narse
Have you tried to boot the system with only one stick of ram? Trying taking out the stick right next to the cpu and see if it will post.

I not only did that, but tried all four slots, and then switched memory to know working, and tried all 4 again, its just DEAD.