*Official Retail G0 Q6600 Overclocking Thread*

[dinos22]

dinos22: not everyone does 4ghz tho.....pure luck.

after seeing this thread and other results on other forums i can tell you right now it isn't really THAT much of a luck

look at 3.6GHz stable results and you will see that most of these are stable between 1.37-1.41v at that speed

and then add 0.05v for every 100MHz OC and as long as your cooling can hold out you will be able to reach 4GHz with around 1.57-1.61v somewhere

i got one of these CPUs incoming tomorrow week 27
in australia we are buying week 27 and 29 and they are so far doing 3.6Ghz 1.4v

[TinTin]

some suicide shots

Config:
CPU: Intel Q6600 L724A784
MB: Asus P5K Premium
RAM: Team Xtreem DDR1000 C5 1G X 2
Display Card: Nvidia 8800GTS 640M cooled by EK Block

WaterCooling + air conditioner direct blowing
Laing D5 Pump
BlackIce GTX Extreme 240
Dtek FuZion

266strap, 4:5 divider, 1.7V Vcore

4320MHz passed Superpi 1M:


4367 CPUZ Validation:

[dinos22]

excellent hahahah

[NJDevilsFan21]

I think I've got a 4GHz capable chip... Maximum voltage my motherboard could supply is about 1.45V under load from 1.59375V set in the bios.

Anyway, here's 3.6GHz - not test for hours, but it is a good indicator that my settings are close to stable.



I also tested out 3.8GHz, with that maximum my motherboard could supply. Got about 5 minutes in... and something started to smell like it was burning coming from my computer . Everything seems fine, it could have been the little rubber straps attached to the Ultra120x, at least I hope it was those, as the CPU chip was 69-74C under load at 3.8GHz...

By the way I cheated on the ambients because I had the ambient down to 68F from 80F, so I'm not realistically looking at these kind of overclocks until... October. But right now 3.6GHz is definitely looking like my winter overclock. Maybe even more depending on what the ambient room temperature is.

By the way, batch: L723A841

[strange|ife]

A batch are better thats all i know, i had a B batch and it was terrible, barely would do 3.4 played with it for a week.I could post at 3.6, even with 1.65 set in bios, orthos would fail. I sent the sucker back and bit the restocking fee bullet, why keep something your not happy with.?!?!

seems B batch is donkey balls. A guy i worked with just picked himself up a G0 aswell, of course it was a B batch, he hates it. IT actually doesnt clock aswell as his B3, it does run cooler though @ 3.1 he couldnt get it past 3.2

Ive got my old e6600 back in and sitting at 3.75 as i type this, waiting on my RMA/refund

/rant