My little Q6600 G0 get BLITZed on the Mini-Cascade

[Pedro Rocha]

Although the mini-cascade is not calibrate to Quad's (drops to less than -70ºC on load ) the results are not to bad for a Retail Q6600 that cost me around 260 Euro .

The motherboard used was Asus Blitz Formula - this mobo make wish to try again the ATI's for some some Crossfire action, but I must control myself because this hobby is becoming really expensive

Here are some results:

First 4 simultaneous SuperPI's on Core 0, 1, 2, 3 :



And now the 4 Core CineBench:




I have my doubts but it pass 3DMark2006 CPU test at 4.600Mhz - the mini-cascade really suffer on this test




And finally my favorite game, with very low 8800ultra clocks and the PCie at default 100mhz




Tomorrow I will try to recalibrate the mini-cascade and may show you more Q6600 G0 BLITZed on the Mini-Cascade

I realy like the G0's and seems that the day when my retail QX6850 never arrive

[eva2000]

very nice what's max on that cooling at around 1.62v vcore ?

[bonku]

whats your vcore? dude

[jimmyz]

whats your vcore? dude

speedfan is reporting 1.73v

[over@locker886]

Very nice cpu!! congrats!

[Oliver]

Nice chip and board, and the clocks with that mini-cascade is very good IMO.

[Pedro Rocha]

A few more benchs.




82.291 MIPS


Full 3Mark 2006 with 8800Ultra low clocks




And PCMark 2005 just for curiosity (I'm not a big fan) :




I think is 5th place in the PCMark2005, but I forget to usel WHQ Futuremark approved (no idea PCMark requires it) so have to re-run to submit

Seems Win Vista give better result in PCMark

Anyway not bad for a low cost QuadCore..

[Gautam]

this mobo make wish to try again the ATI's for some some Crossfire action, but I must control myself because this hobby is becoming really expensive

Do it! Do it!


Unfortunately they're very very weak in your favorite game though.

[harleybro]

Seems Win Vista give better result in PCMark

Definately......transparent windows is where you will see a BIG improvement. Awesome chip you have there

[PcCI2iminal]

522FSB is sick !!!
nice work Pedro

and about Q6600 @ 1 core in you favorite game?4800mhz+?

[erwinz]

very nice results..

very good q6600.. what the FPO batch??

[Dynasty]

4600mhz 3D 06 stable for an q6600 G0 which is an 3rd of the price of
qx6850/6800 is surely nice....... nice work......

[Jungle beat]

That cpu is very nice!
@Pedro: what about asus blitz formula? I dont'know if buy this or dfi t2r . .

[Pedro Rocha]

very nice results..

very good q6600.. what the FPO batch??

Thanks

L726A951

[Pedro Rocha]

That cpu is very nice!
@Pedro: what about asus blitz formula? I dont'know if buy this or dfi t2r . .

The Asus Blitz Formula is quite nice and should rock with 2 ATI's thanks to Crosslink feature

Well better think twice before "jump" to DFI wagon - I bought one DFI 680i UT SLI and now DFI does not make any new Bios availabe for that board since May 2007, today I tested this 6600 G0 with the DFI 680i and the results was quite joke:
- Last oficial bios (from 2007/05/21) does not even recognize Q660 G0 correclty
- Last beta bios (N5FD723 from 2007/07/23) is a complete disaster with the Q6600 G0, the board dont even boot most of the times.
I dunno what will happen with DFI P35 TR bios updates and support, but if it is the same that happend with DFI 680i, it is better stay way specially for G0's

The problem is not the Nvidia 680i chipset, in fact the Q6600 G0's works very well with a EVGA with a P30 bios, I did 4.100 4core superpi's benchable Air Cooled with a this Q6600 - you can check more in my thread here http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=154758

[filmbot]

Pedro, if you don't mind me asking, Blitz isnt retail yet is it? Cause I see it around shops but out of stock.

Also, since I know that you have worked with both boards, do you perfer Blitz or P5K series?

[Pedro Rocha]

Pedro, if you don't mind me asking, Blitz isnt retail yet is it? Cause I see it around shops but out of stock.

Also, since I know that you have worked with both boards, do you perfer Blitz or P5K series?

Blitz it's on sales here in Portugal and in most of European countries.

Regarding the choice of boards, here is my opinon:
- P5K Premium (avoid the Deluxe since it had serious heat problems on PWM) may be the better motherbord for 24/7 use with Air/Water Cooling;
- Blitz Formula its the board of choice for more extreme overclockers (phase or DI/LN2) since it have more voltages options and a better layout.

For ATI owners that wish CF, the Crosslink feature in the Blitz may decide in favour of the Blitz, I didnt try CF with new 2900XT but I would like to ..

[Movieman]

Pedro: Excellent times on cinebench..9sec and 2425 for a quad is excellent.
I'm just a little ahead of that but using 8 cores..

[erwinz]

Blitz it's on sales here in Portugal and in most of European countries.

Regarding the choice of boards, here is my opinon:
- P5K Premium (avoid the Deluxe since it had serious heat problems on PWM) may be the better motherbord for 24/7 use with Air/Water Cooling;
- Blitz Formula its the board of choice for more extreme overclockers (phase or DI/LN2) since it have more voltages options and a better layout.

For ATI owners that wish CF, the Crosslink feature in the Blitz may decide in favour of the Blitz, I didnt try CF with new 2900XT but I would like to ..

thanks for the insight sir..

I have a blitz here.. but not yet setup.. waiting for my chiller to come..


btw what bios are you using??

[G H Z]

Nice Q6600 Pedro

Turn up the PCIe and clocks

I'll have one to play with early next week. Gonna give it the full treatment and see where it tops out FSB wise on P35.

[HoriWanderFuLL]

wow man thats so sweet to see a q6600 at those speeds....
exciting times ahead i see

L726a is embeded in my brain already...only 1.7 vcore as well

[SoF]

hey pedro nice toy you got there
I decided to go with E6850 because of the temperature problem. quad load would be way too hard for my old Mach I

[Pedro Rocha]

Heres is a few updates with Q6600 G0 on the Mini-cascade, give it a litle more PLL voltage to achieve higger FSB...

4 Cores Superpi benchable at 4.750Mhz - 528 FSB




As you can see in the Everest QuadCore Bench is very near 100% overclock




And finally it runs 3Dmark2006 at 4.650Mhz - here it is with a full stock single 8800..




Contrarily to the QX6850, the temperatures of Q6600 are still acceptable in mini-cascade - to bad I can not run SLI with these FSB speeds - maybe with X38 mobos

[eva2000]

woah Q6600 @9X517FSB 3dmark06!

how much is a little more cpu ppl volts ?

[Pedro Rocha]

woah Q6600 @9X517FSB 3dmark06!

how much is a little more cpu ppl volts ?

Raise to 1.9v to 2.0v of course