Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 - Kentsfield
This afternoon a courier dropped off a new toy for me to play with, an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield B3/Step 7 quad core cpu
QUPT, Week 32, 2006
Dropped it in a Intel D975XBX Bad Axe rev304 motherboard with latest 1441 bios and it is recognised as Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 cpu. Ignore the processor speed of 3.72Ghz, the bios since day 1 has misreported the speed IF the fsb strap is changed from default to say 1067fsb or 1333fsb strap. Right now it's set at 1067fsb strap.
Temps look okay for idle pretty close to my E6600 and E6700 B1 cpus on same cooling. I used the new application method for AS5 listed here.
New feature in bios that i have never seen on D975XBX Bad Axe board when i used my E6600 and E6700 B1 cpus, a selectable cpu multiplier!
The default vcore is 1.275v for Coretemp VID but i had 1.3125v vcore set in bios on my previous session with E6700 cpu. With 1.275v vcore set in bios, vcore reads 1.242v with 43C idle cpu temps. The default settings with automatic multiplier:
The manual default multiplier settings (whether multipliers higher than default 9x work haven't tested yet):
The manual multiplier max and min multipliers are 40x and 5x respectively in bios:
As you can see the Intel D975XBX Bad Axe rev304 has no problem recognising the Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield cpu in bios at least. I have enabled Enhanced Powerslope in bios which reduces vcore droop by as much as 50%
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