*Official Retail G0 Q6600 Overclocking Thread*

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Intel® Core™2 Extreme Quad-Core Processor QX6000Δ Sequence and Intel® Core™2 Quad Processor Q6000Δ Sequence Specification Update – on 65 nm Process in the 775-land LGA Package supporting Intel® 64 architecture and Intel® Virtualization Technology±
http://www.intel.com/design/processo...pdt/315593.htm

I was just looking at Intel's ERRATA / Specification Update
page which was just updated within the past 2 days.

Now they have a document that compared G0 and B3
Q6600 steppings.

A few known and documented bugs that affected
B3 are now FIXED in G0.

IN AT LEAST ONE DOCUMENTED CASE, HOWEVER,
THERE'S A BUG IN G0 CPUS THAT DID *NOT* EXIST
IN B3 CPUS, THOUGH.

Overall I'd say that the G0 is an improvement over B3
based on the errata changes, though, and this also
confirms that they've done somewhat useful engineering
changes in G0.

How many of those changes are just in the
downloadable microcode, and how many are hardware
changes, I cannot say.

Yep there it is, G0 ftw!

thanks for clearing that hope for hopefully everyone..

so trade off now is higher temps w/ G0 w/ many fixes or B3 w/ lower temps but w/ many problems.

thats what it comes down to.

Anyone using a evga 680i AR with G0? I know the AR revision has issue with quad cores and was curious as to whether any of the more recent bios updates have aided this. As far as I know, it is a hardware issue. I have a G0 chip here but am not going to go to the trouble of using it if my motherboard doesn't allow me to clock it high. ( I asked evga if they'll trade mine in for a T1 revision which supposed has the quad issues ironed out; awaiting their response )

Still much rather have a E6600 @ 3.6 than a Q6600 @ 2.4. If I can't use it, I'll sell it and tough it out until Penryn.

the AR is better than T1... use P30 and you should be fine.... P29 should also work.

P.S this should help everyone..
B3 stepping ends in SL9UM
G0 stepping ends in SLACR