Sandybridge Benchmark vs. my old Q6600 *UPDATED*

[klansek]

Another happy user of q6600 @3400 (1.38v)...3yrs and still going strong. Mine would also not go higher regardless what i did (one core always failed prime).
Anyway, I am also pleasantly surprised by the gains reported by the OP. Thought that there is no point to upgrade, but might change my mind

 

[vaylon]

Like others have said, "overclocking is a big YMMV'.

I have used the same cpu, with the same settings, on the same model of motherboards and got completely different results by just changing the motherboard out with another board of the same model.

Considering a motherboard has many more variables to affect OCing than the cpu does. Try changing out the motherboard, if you can.

Look at it this way.
A q6600 cpu is pretty much a clone of all other q6600's because of the manufacturing process. So at most you have a 1% variance from one to the other.
But Motherboards have a 10-15% variance easily , just because of all the various components that have to be added such as capacitors, diodes and connectors.

 

[coreyb]

yeah, I don't think I got that lucky with my Q6600. I believe buying a high end asus board made it possible. Plus good mushkin ram!

 

[VirtualLarry]

Look at it this way.
A q6600 cpu is pretty much a clone of all other q6600's because of the manufacturing process. So at most you have a 1% variance from one to the other.

Nope. Every CPU is unique, like a snowflake. As long as they are not defective, they all operate the same way, but respond differently to overclocking (voltage/frequency), because they are unique in that way.

 

[SZLiao214]

I never knew how lucky i was to get my q6600 to 3.6 at 1.4 volts.

 

[evolucion8]

Then I can call myself lucky, I had a QX6850 which is basically an unlocked Q6600 G0 stepping and I was able to overclock to 3.60GHz at 1.55V which is quite high and ran close to 90C with Linpack, but still it was stable. It was a hell of a hot chip.