As for the price cut, Intel has one "scheduled" for today, the 20th. The Q6600 is supposed to drop by $43 in lot sizes....don't know what it'll do individually. Time will tell, I suppose.


I do own a Q6600 myself.....lot# L745....


I am somewhat of a very lazy OC'er......the cpu is runing on an Asus X38 board, a Maximus Formula.

Leaving all setting at auto except for forcing my PCI-e speed to run at 100MHz, cpu voltage set to 1.35V, NB voltage at 1.5V, and RAM voltage at 2.0V, I've been able to run my cpu at 3.6GHz. That's stable under hour after hour of OCCT.

I have had it boot at 3.9GHz, 1.51V, all other setting again left in auto, but fails OCCT after just a couple of minutes.

Not really sure which or what setting to try tweaking, but 3.6 @ 1.35V seems to me to be a decent OC. My temps, under watercooling, really never seem to hit more than 52C on the "hotter" cores of the two pairs of cores. (The other "core" never gets near 50C running OCCT at 3.6GHz.)

Everest gives my VID at 1.238V.

Guess I'll just let sleeping dogs lie and be very satisfied that it does what it does.