Overclocking Q6600 on work/gaming machine

[danchase45]

I am building a new computer and I decided on the Q6600. I wonder how many people here OC on a machine that they use for work. I am a bit reckless with my overclocking, but with a machine I now use for work I am going to be much safer. Maybe just messing with multipliers and FSB and leaving vCore alone. I see everyone here is OC'ing there Q6600 and I just want to know how many people are doing this to their work machines.

 

[SystemPlue]

i use my machine for work....
i run World of Warcraft on my secondary display... and do work on my primary display... works great... World of Warcraft running on Window Mode works great...
i used to run same type of setup using a AMD FX-60, 7950gt and the game would slow down when i move it to the secondary display

 

[esjrobles]

I'm planning to use my rig for work but right now I'm just using it playing games. I already tried to OC it up to 3.24ghz and stress tested it for just an hour and it run too hot (73 c, 69 c, 68 c, 71 c) so I'm back to stock speed. My casing is not good for ocing q6600 coz it's a matx casing and not enough exhaust fan to cool my proc.

 

[BoboKatt]

Use my Q6600 G0 for work and play and in fact work and play at times happens at the same time ;P

I have flipped flopped back and forth with OC speeds and voltages and eventually settled for 3.0Ghz (9x333) which is pretty conservative considering I can do 3.5GHz rock stable. The reason I stuck with 3GHZ is that I can get that speed at stock voltage... all other voltages are set at the lowest possible except for my 4 x 1024 Patriot PC26400 RAM which I set at 1.85 and run at 800Mhz with the strap option in my BIOS.

My system us up mostly 24/7 and when I am not working or playing or working and playing, it's downloading or decoding. At these speeds and voltages (after I finally lapped the Q6600... still needs work) on my TR Ultra Extreme, the cores will usually reach 51-54 max for full quad core encoding using Handbrake. Never crashes.... never freezes.

When I had it set at 3.5 if I left it to encode for hours it would easily crawl over 70c and above.

 

[DSF]

What kind of work are you doing with it?

You may just be generating a lot of heat for nothing if you OC a Q6600 for some types of work.