Quote Originally Posted by dinos22 View Post
@I)ickie

most people with quads are asing QX CPUs but since E6600 with 9xmulti will be available for cheap very soon you'd want a decent FSB if you are an extreme clocker.....for 24/7 i don't think there will be many Q6600 CPUs running 3.6GHz lol

even QX CPUs are sorting averaging around 3.3-3.4GHz on 24/7 systems....due to the heat output....

but if you stick it under DICE or LN2 you'd probably be safer with P35 boards unless there will be another revision which supports even higher quad OCs....
I agree that with the current quad cores it's not so much a prob cause their default fsb is 1066 and as you say their heat output is limiting overclocks. Since the better 680i boards can usually muster around the 400fsb mark max most of the time with a multi locked CPU you will hit a CPU or cooling limit before board limit.

However the transition to 45nm of penryn will mean lower heat output and higher potential clocks. Taking this into consideration and the fact that penryn is reported to be 333fsb as opposed to 266 and you are hitting some serious limitations. max of 67fsb overclock unless you are using a QX.