Xtreme Low Q6600 G0 Temp on Air !!! (Lots of Pics)

[XtremeTiramisu]

I Can't wait to share my happiest moment in life so I'm not going to be wordy this time. Pictures speak a thousand words.







Finally lapped my Thermalright Ultra120 Extreme. The heatsink base was extremely CONVEX!
The lapping work took me more than 6 hours. Used 320x2, 400x2, 600x2, 1000, 1500 and 2000grid wet/dry 3M sandpapers. (more details and pics on this in the air cooled forum )



Idle state after the system finished the Vista performance rating bench.


Prime small fft stress test full load all 4 cores.



NOTICE: I'm using Vista 64bit OS. So I can only open Speedfan 4.32 to get the core temp.
Coretemp 0.94/95 and Intel TAT aren't supported in Vista x64.

Before you start flaming about Speedfan's core temp inaccuracy, know that Speefan 4.32 assumes the max Tjunction is 85c instead of the actual 100c from the Quad.
You've to ADD +15c on top of Idle/Load temps to get the actual core temps. And it's still an incredibly low temps for a high-end air cooled quad at stock settings.
*Maybe my lapped job did the trick

I've also posted the temp readings from BIOS and Asus AI suite as a reference. Those temp are always lower than the actual core temp.
So after you've added +15c on top of the core temp reported from Speedfan 4.32, the core temp is accurate and does get higher than the temp reported from Asus AI Suite and BIOS.


Here's is another reference temp reading/OC from my previous setup before I just swapped to the G0 Q6600 last night.
This is just to show you that Speedfan 4.32 is actually picking up the core temp accurately given that C2D has Tjunction of 85c instead of 100c from the quad.

[sofarfrome]

3.73 at 1.4vcore is excellent for this quad. Temps are pretty good too. My L631B with 2 cores runs 60C under load. Finally, some results to think upon.

[Xilikon]

3.73 at 1.4vcore is excellent for this quad. Temps are pretty good too. My L631B with 2 cores runs 60C under load. Finally, some results to think upon.

It's not the Q6600 but a E6700 The Q6600 is still at stock settings.

[sofarfrome]

It's not the Q6600 but a E6700 The Q6600 is still at stock settings.

OOPS!!!

I was

[XtremeTiramisu]

Good luck with your quad XT

Looking forward to some real OC results

Thanks, and for sure some more serious results

Please try 3.4 GHz and see if you can do better than mine. If you do, I might lap my SI-128 (same base as yours, might not be flat).

Of course, I'm goign to aim for 3.4ghz...
results in a sec

[v0dka]

Coretemp 0.95 works in Visa x64, running it as admin should do the trick.

Nice clocks on the quad, only thing that's keeping me from buying one is the knowledge that 45nm is really close too.

[Xilikon]

Looks great for temps. I didn't look at mine at stock but when overclocked to 3.4 GHz, SpeedFan is reporting 52C top under load (forgot the +15C thing so 67C on air is not bad). I didn't try with lower voltage yet.

[ruff97]

let see some OC please

[ludeboy12]

looks good so far.

I'm confused about the whole coretemp thing though. Seems to be working find for me here on vista64.

[Eightballrj]

looks good so far.

I'm confused about the whole coretemp thing though. Seems to be working find for me here on vista64.

Screenshot or ban


BTW... Grats on the G0 quad bro!

[KiD0M4N]

Screenshot or ban


BTW... Grats on the G0 quad bro!

There you go: http://forums.erodov.com/showthread.php?t=950
follow the steps and you will be good to go. The signed driver requirement stops Coretemp from working.

[Supertim0r]

almost 3.8ghz prime stable

[ChronoReverse]

Okay, just received a second Q6600 from NCIX (but not for myself unfortunately), it's also a L723A930. Probably won't be much better than mine so 3.3GHz on Air. Maybe I'll test it discreetly later.

[XtremeTiramisu]

Talk about cheap Quad Core thrills! Preliminary OC @ 3Ghz and temps are still amazing on AIR!!
I think I may have a good chance beating some watercooled Q6600 rigs
Gotta give myself props on my lapping job again

[freeze888]

Talk about cheap Quad Core thrills! Preliminary OC @ 3Ghz and temps are still amazing on AIR!! I think I may have a good chance to beat some watercooled Q6600 rigs
Gotta give myself props on my lapping job again

Very nice. I think I might have to lap my heatsink as well. What is your room temp?

[XtremeTiramisu]

Very nice. I think I might have to lap my heatsink as well. What is your room temp?

You should cos I wasn't very happy with my OC'ed E6700 temp using the same TR U120 X (it was severely CONVEX!) hence the 6 hours lapping job and finger cramps.

Very good question, ambient indeed, it's summer time! and a sunny day today.
RIght now in the early morning, the current temp is roughly 21c but gets 30c+++ by the afternoon.

[CedricFP]

Good luck with your quad XT

Looking forward to some real OC results

[Xilikon]

Please try 3.4 GHz and see if you can do better than mine. If you do, I might lap my SI-128 (same base as yours, might not be flat).

[Dazog]

Nice job, I am glad its just my POS storm.

Not the G0

[XtremeTiramisu]

INCREDIBLE !! I can't believe I'm on air and having this unreal quad core thrill....am I dreaming?!

[freeze888]

INCREDIBLE !! I can't believe I'm on air and having this unreal quad core thrill....am I dreaming?!

Boo...I want better temps too >_< May I ask where you got your info for lapping your heatsink. I know my chip can go much higher than 3 Ghz.

Also, did you buy some kind of lapping kit or did you buy your stuff from various places?

[synergy]

INCREDIBLE !! I can't believe I'm on air and having this unreal quad core thrill....am I dreaming?!

Nice overclocks / temperatures.

I notice you have a post about running BIOS 404.
Did your motherboard come with an earlier BIOS version
AND you were able to boot WITH THE Q6600 G0 and
REFLASH even though the G0 wasn't supported before 404?

[XtremeTiramisu]

Nice overclocks / temperatures.

I notice you have a post about running BIOS 404.
Did your motherboard come with an earlier BIOS version
AND you were able to boot WITH THE Q6600 G0 and
REFLASH even though the G0 wasn't supported before 404?

Good question:

My motherboard came with 0202 BIOS but I had my mobo for nearly a month now. If you noticed in my first post again, you can see that I had the E6700 OC'ed with the same mobo just before I swapped it out for the Q6600 G0. So the mobo was already flashed to 0404 BIOS before the Q6600 G0 came in.

My guess with the P5K-Dlx is that the P35 chipset should still recongnize the Q6600 G0 stepping regardless of the BIOS version. I'd worry if you've older chipset mobos such as the P965/975 or 680/650I SLI (without their newest BIOS flash).

I cannot guarantee if the Q6600 G0 will boot with older P5K-Dlx BIOS becouse obviously I didn't try it. If you can flash the mobo to the 0404 BIOS or newer before you put in the G0 that'd be great but if not just put it in anways and boot it up. Worst case senerio is the system will not post but you'll not kill it.

[Xilikon]

Push it further so I can justify a motherboard swap Mine is limited due to the crappy XBX2 fsb limitation

[superray]

Yeah, the temp is really low.
Let's see more OC results!