When we seek Orthos or Prime stable, this usally means the OC'ed setting will be used as a 24/7 machine. Taking 24/7 machine into account, his given high voltage 1.63v in BIOS and 1.57v Idle to acheive 3.9ghz may already defeat the purpose of running it on a daily basis unless he doesn't give a damn about longevity of the nice new G0 chip. So it's pointless at this stage whether his G0 Q6600 is prime stable or not.


I can clearly tell by the way his screenshot was captured is that he's seeking for the max possible "bench-stable" OC'ed settings at this stage.

I know this thread is meant for Q6600 G0 Overclock-ability on air but don't missed that his nicely done 3.9ghz clock is on high-end water.

I wonder what's his temp are like at this OC stage on water and what could be the max OC-able speed with water cooling a G0 Q6600. It would be nice to compare whether hundreds of dollars invested in a watercooling is worth taking up the OC up to the next high level from proven 3.7ghz+ on air configuration. (Saying this becouse I'm thinking about watercooling, but short on fund )
First off congrats on your chip there I'm struggling to get close to your results and as you know I'm on water.

I see your results which are at full load, tell me albeit the voltage dampening how close are those vcore readings to the ones set in bios? This thread is certainly selling Asus.

Spot on about the bench and 24/7 things. This is actually my work kit used for 3D, so all 4 cores are maxed out pretty regularly. Albeit I'm not quite as precious with this chip as I was with the QX6700, I'll be looking for something closer to prime stable 24/7. 3.7ghz is probably a good figure to consider. Make that an excellent figure Either way I'm still pretty smitten at being able to run those benches at 3.9.

As for the watercooling. I'm in Thailand here, so temps are evenly hot all year round. This makes watercooling a pretty easy choice. In addition I know that the bulk of the kit, rad, pump etc will get me through a few more upgrades.

That's the justifying out the way, but basically buying all these bits of kit are just part of the addiction. In no way helped by this forum

RLM