Q6600, easiest OC of my life

[BonzaiDuck]

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It could be the amount of thermal grease; it could be air-pockets in the thermal grease. I'm assuming you're using AS5.

What is "released" to the pubic as G0-stepping Q6600's would yield a statistical distribution of behaviors and over-clocking potential. Maybe you just got something on the bottom tail of the distribution. Maybe you have "air-pockets." Maybe you're cooler is not completely seated properly (although I doubt it with 60C cores at load).

If your room ambient is between 72 and 75F, 60C TJunction core-temperatures are not all that terrible at that over-clock. But you didnt' say what your VCore setting is. What about your other voltages? You haven't said anything about your case; the Tuniq is a good cooler, but how much CFM of air are you moving through it?

The G0 is supposed to be notably cooler than the B3, maybe more than 5C better. This thread goes toward proving that it's more over-clockable than the B3, and at lower VCore settings.

 

[Markfw]

60c@3.3 is very respectable. What vcore was required ? Tunic tower is not a bad cooler, just not the best.

My Q6600@3.609 is at max 54-58c temps, 1.36 vcore. Untra 120 extreme lapped cooler.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

I'm partial to ThermalRight, but only because they've had a stellar first-place record running on three years. The Tuniq only comes in a shade behind the U-120-Extreme.

Markw900 -- What's the Vcore on your best b3-stepping over-clock? I'd say that 3.6 is great on a Q6600 G0. I explained, though, where I went with my B3 from 3.2 in order to capture memory bandwidth at 1:1. This is "schweet" -- just not the fastest.

I think I want to wait and see about Penryn, and then the choice will be between a G0 Q6600 and an E6850 unless I can wait for Penryn prices to moderate a tad.

 

[Markfw]

Originally posted by: BonzaiDuck
I'm partial to ThermalRight, but only because they've had a stellar first-place record running on three years. The Tuniq only comes in a shade behind the U-120-Extreme.

Markw900 -- What's the Vcore on your best b3-stepping over-clock? I'd say that 3.6 is great on a Q6600 G0. I explained, though, where I went with my B3 from 3.2 in order to capture memory bandwidth at 1:1. This is "schweet" -- just not the fastest.

I think I want to wait and see about Penryn, and then the choice will be between a G0 Q6600 and an E6850 unless I can wait for Penryn prices to moderate a tad.

1.408, not much higher than the 3,6, but this B3 only does 3.320, temps go a shade over 70.

 

[n7]

Nice.

Your Q6600 results seems extremely similar to my Q6700s.

I decided on 3.5 GHz to keep vcore lower, & keep my RAM happy.

It could run 3.6 GHz very nicely, even P95 for hours, but a lot more vcore that i really wanted.

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: jaredpace

Originally posted by: DeathBUA
So for now, 3.5Ghz it is. Not a bad OC, only 1100Mhz

1100mhz increase nice!

i have an e4300, stock its 1.8ghz i have it at 3.29ghz.

thats, ummm 1490mhz!

Let us know when you're able to get it high enough that it has two more cores, along with 4X the L2 cache.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Originally posted by: Markfw900

Originally posted by: BonzaiDuck
I'm partial to ThermalRight, but only because they've had a stellar first-place record running on three years. The Tuniq only comes in a shade behind the U-120-Extreme.

Markw900 -- What's the Vcore on your best b3-stepping over-clock? I'd say that 3.6 is great on a Q6600 G0. I explained, though, where I went with my B3 from 3.2 in order to capture memory bandwidth at 1:1. This is "schweet" -- just not the fastest.

I think I want to wait and see about Penryn, and then the choice will be between a G0 Q6600 and an E6850 unless I can wait for Penryn prices to moderate a tad.

1.408, not much higher than the 3,6, but this B3 only does 3.320, temps go a shade over 70.

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Unless your stress-testing is not as rigorous, that's really good for a B3. Wisdom from the last several months here suggests that 3.2 is just about the limit. I have to set VCORE to 1.41V just to get rock-stable at 3.2. It's either that you got a really good one, or there are "mobo differences" -- guessing about the latter.

 

[TraumaRN]

Yes my core is a SLACR, GO stepping core.

As far as volts go it can do 3.5 at about 1.36 but its a little unstable. I think I'll need about 1.385 or so for total stability.

IIRC 3.0 took 1.28.

And my system is only 2 days old so hopefully after my AS5 settles down I can drop a few degrees in temp.

 

[WoodButcher]

Originally posted by: BonzaiDuck
Unless your stress-testing is not as rigorous, that's really good for a B3. Wisdom from the last several months here suggests that 3.2 is just about the limit. I have to set VCORE to 1.41V just to get rock-stable at 3.2. It's either that you got a really good one, or there are "mobo differences" -- guessing about the latter.

Hahahaha, I'm playing w/ my 6600 G0 trying to find rock, solid, stable, and the numbers you mention are gospel for me too, the only difference being temps, a tad under 50c on the hottest cores, my room is warm, 72 f, underwater w/ the fans on low. If I turn the fans up I'll drop about 5c but I'm happy w/ quiet.
What kind of timings are you all getting on your memory?
Mine is 4,4,4,12 w/ 2.2v

 

[TraumaRN]

So found my final prime stable rock solid settings.

3.5 Ghz

3.5Ghz at 1.376volts, idle temps 30-35C. loading up in the mid 50s to 60.

 

[Mech0z]

Anyone know if the Corsair XMS2 CL4 can do the same overclock or should I pick something else? They are dead cheap..