I'm well aware that the Q6600 chips with SLACR stamped onto the chip, are typically of the G0 stepping, which happens to be my chip, and both coretemp and CPUID show it to be G0 as well. and that these are some great chips to OC.
Overclocking is definitely on my to do list, however recently it was suggested in some other forums that with my current setup it may be possible now.
just looking for some input, as the last time I OC'ed it was a P4
the current rig should be listed in my sig,
the ECS motherboard was part of a Fry's black friday combo deal and I know it's not the best, the memory I have is Dual Channel DDR2 800Mhz, but the board is only single channel 667Mhz
the current cooling scheme is the Antec Nine hundred configured with the 2 front fans in the bottom and middle positions, the bottom cooling the PSU, and the middle cooling the HDD"s, memory, and maybe even a little video. I recently mounted an additonal Antec Tricool fan in the side window to help with cooling the VGA and CPU, mounted as an intake, with the rear 120mm and top 200mm as exhaust fans.
the current heatsink is the stock Core 2 heat sink
My power supply, is the Corsair HX520, rated at 40amps combined over 3 12v rails. 85-90% efficient.
current readings in core temp on idle show
Core 0 33C
Core 1 34C
Core 2 28C
Core 3 28C
not sure how to do an official benchmark, but If I alt-tab out of crysis with coretemp running my temps are around 45C for the 1st two cores and about 35C for the other two.
I don't really know what good temps are for a quad, I just know since I built this rig, it's not a room heater like the previous one was, which can be a bit of an issue in Arizona during the summer.
if you think it is feasible, or if you have OC'ed your own Q6600 please give me your voltage and settings so I can have a baseline to work around.
Overclocking is definitely on my to do list, however recently it was suggested in some other forums that with my current setup it may be possible now.
just looking for some input, as the last time I OC'ed it was a P4
the current rig should be listed in my sig,
the ECS motherboard was part of a Fry's black friday combo deal and I know it's not the best, the memory I have is Dual Channel DDR2 800Mhz, but the board is only single channel 667Mhz
the current cooling scheme is the Antec Nine hundred configured with the 2 front fans in the bottom and middle positions, the bottom cooling the PSU, and the middle cooling the HDD"s, memory, and maybe even a little video. I recently mounted an additonal Antec Tricool fan in the side window to help with cooling the VGA and CPU, mounted as an intake, with the rear 120mm and top 200mm as exhaust fans.
the current heatsink is the stock Core 2 heat sink
My power supply, is the Corsair HX520, rated at 40amps combined over 3 12v rails. 85-90% efficient.
current readings in core temp on idle show
Core 0 33C
Core 1 34C
Core 2 28C
Core 3 28C
not sure how to do an official benchmark, but If I alt-tab out of crysis with coretemp running my temps are around 45C for the 1st two cores and about 35C for the other two.
I don't really know what good temps are for a quad, I just know since I built this rig, it's not a room heater like the previous one was, which can be a bit of an issue in Arizona during the summer.
if you think it is feasible, or if you have OC'ed your own Q6600 please give me your voltage and settings so I can have a baseline to work around.
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