Q6600 or Q9550?

[n7]

Originally posted by: TidusZ
I am using the gigabyte-UD3R, which I highly recommend over the much touted asus p5q pro. 2x2gb OCZ hpc ddr2-1066 for the ram (only running at 1000 atm), and for cooling my secret weapon is the coolermaster haf 932 case, and I have a true 120 black with a scythe 1600rpm and antec tricool push/pull. Heatsink and processor are sanded to pretty near mirror finish (this took just under ten hours, but the case was a gift for christmas so I was sitting on the hardware for 2 days) with OCZ Freeze. I was able to get 4.1 with very minor adjustment to motherboard voltages but past that I needed to raise voltages to get past 482 fsb.

4 hours stable so far, will go for 4.3 tmrw morning if all goes well. 4.25 X 4 hrs

Sidenote: Anyone know of a spot I can upload pictures with decent quality? Photobucket really shrinks down the pictures pretty badly.

That is just glorious.

Is that small FFTs or Blend though?

You really need to run Blend/Large, as that stresses FSB/NB far more; small is a joke for anything but stressing CPU.

If that's Blend or Large though, i might have to switch mobos.
That's just ridiculously awesome.

Please update or PM me on that.

As for OP's question, Q9550 OCed essentially removes to the need to upgrade to i7 anytime soon.
Q6600 is the good bang for buck option though.

 

[TidusZ]

I've been using Blend for stability testing, I was stable at 4.25 overnight and then tried 4.3 at same settings and got an error after 18 minutes, set back 4.284, 8.5 x 504 ran stable for 5 hours, using cpu to game atm though so wont be able to test 12+ hours until tonight. I'm pretty happy with this overclock, and with higher voltages someone could go higher - but I really think these voltages are great for a reasonably safe system 24/7 long term.

I did a lot of reading between the p5q and ud3r before buying, and the ud3r just really seemed to be the winner for overclocking. The bios settings are excellent, and as I said it was stable at a hair above stock up to 482 fsb. I haven't messed around enough to know whether my current bottleneck is processor volts or northbridge but I'm thinking its the processor at this point.

 

[Tempered81]

Originally posted by: TidusZ

4 hours stable so far, will go for 4.3 tmrw morning if all goes well. 4.25 X 4 hrs

That is a damn nice OC! 65C Load temps @ 500mhz FSB, quadcore @ 4250mhz, 1.392v 45nm!

I bet with your skills a q9650 would be sitting at 500 x 9 and an e8600 at 500 x 10.