*Official Retail G0 Q6600 Overclocking Thread*

[strange|ife]

2msuper pi &32m pi. I just went for sucide, threw vcore to 1.6 in bios, reading 1.53 with crap droop. Didnt wanna risk stress testing in this ungodly weather maybe this winter when its cold, or if i get a waterkeg in a few weeks.




VID is 2.750
FPO/BATCH#L723A963 oack date 08/06/07
Store:ClubIT

fresh off the assembly line!

[Ace-a-Rue]

Just got my replacement G0 in, glad to post iam in the 3.6ghz club now. Goin on 2 hours small fft's. PWM is hot as haides, case open, 120 fan blowing directly over it. ohwell its like 115F here in vegas, and my AC is having a bad day.

did you accomplish the heatpipe mod?

[Ace-a-Rue]

2msuper pi &32m pi. I just went for sucide, threw vcore to 1.6 in bios, reading 1.53 with crap droop. Didnt wanna risk stress testing in this ungodly weather maybe this winter when its cold, or if i get a waterkeg in a few weeks.

nice suicide run!

was it stable in windows.

[strange|ife]

perfeclty stable, still set to this clock. Ill do some gaming for a while, but iam conservtive so will set it back to 3.6 for 24/7. 1.53~ is a bit imo for air

very impressed, iam glad i rma'ed that last chip. To bad for the restocking fee though=/

oh and yeah i did the heatpipe mod, small gain. i may remount the heatpipes in a few days..temps arent much diffrent..

[Brother Esau]

Hey, StrangeLife STELLAR Chip man

[nicepun]

Here's another one.

FPO/BATCH#: L23A674 Pack Date: 08/03/07 VID: 1.3000v

The damn thing does not like high FSB for anything. But will do benches @ 4Ghz+!!!

[strange|ife]

it ran 5 mins under prime, then failed small ff

soon or later ill get it stable at 3.8.

i was able to play stalker for about 40 mins maxed out, frames jumped 9fps @4ghz..it fronze though.

[Ace-a-Rue]

stable enough to surf the net or do emails and maybe a few other things until the more demanding challenges upon memory and cpu...right?

[louie101086]

jus got my chip i think its a L721 are those any good

[Touay002]

My setup:
CPU: Q6600 G0 Vid: 1.2625 L729A312.
Motherboard: GIGABYTE P35-DS3P.
Cooling: Water cooling (Swiftech H20-220 Apex Ultra).
RAM: Geil 2X1G PC6400 (5 5 5 15).
Room temp: ~16C
Idle temp: ~22C-23C (idle pic shows some activities on core 0 and core 3)
Load temp: ~48C-50C

First I installed the Q6600 in an ASUS P5B DLX, the max fsb I could get with it was 401 MHz So I decided to get a P35 motherboard to see how far I can get from this chip. The chip can do over 4GHZ easy, but the RAM is holding me back. If I can find a Vdrop mod I can run this chip stable at 3800 @1.4 V.

the first image is idle temp (room temp ~16) and the second image is full load temp. Notice the Vdrop (from 1.424 to 1.392 [1.4625 in BIOS])

[turtletrax]

Helluva chip you have there Touay002

[Touay002]

Helluva chip you have there Touay002

Thanks. I think I got lucky this time. The E6600 that was replaced was running 3600 @ 1.46V and temp was around 35C idle and 55-60C load (room temp ~23) with the same cooling setup

[Dainas]

Usually not being able to read the temps is a bad sign, but Core Temp sure is optimistic.



BTW, do I have an engineering sample or is Core Temp off its rocker?

[situman]

initial results

[strange|ife]

stable enough to surf the net or do emails and maybe a few other things until the more demanding challenges upon memory and cpu...right?

yeah!

[ocZZZ]

what stepping/cooling situman?

[situman]

SLACR
L720B013 7/31/07
Fuzion
PA120.3
Dual DDC-2

[fornowagain]

BTW, do I have an engineering sample or is Core Temp off its rocker?

Try coretemp 0.95

[The Stilt]

4x SuperPI 32M @ 3.9GHz

Batch: L726A951
VID: 1.275V
Cooling: Thermalright Ultra 120 eXtreme

[Ace-a-Rue]

4x SuperPI 32M @ 3.9GHz

Batch: L726A951
VID: 1.275V
Cooling: Thermalright Ultra 120 eXtreme

interesting to see how DDR3 adds a lot more time to the SuperPI 32M tabulation...i'm a bit surprised with that much difference especially when you consider your 700+ memory speed.

[GripS]

SLACR
L720B013 7/31/07
Fuzion
PA120.3
Dual DDC-2

What kind of volts did you need for that?

Here's mine @ 3.4ghz with 1.4v.

[Dainas]

Try coretemp 0.95

Ha ha, very funny

Atleast 0.94 runs without getting itself stuck in an error loop even if it spews complete hogwash to me.

[jeeka]

Here are my Memory Scores in Sandra (the ones in Red)




Here's mine so far. I love this chip! I don't have any of the Orthos or Prime stuff, but what I can say is that I crushed the Movie '300' using DVD Shrink (just the actual movie, not the extras) in 2 mins, 57 sec. without a restart, as well as 2 other movies...This is with the temps rocking ~100F outside in Southern California here (AC is on inside, but house temp is 80F right now).....

WOW!
Hopefully this holds and it doesn't crash right in the middle of saving a file or a huge upload/download!

Hope this helps people. I will be glad to share my semi-tuned BIOS settings if you all want.

Thanks!
jeeka.

[Ace-a-Rue]

4x SuperPI 32M @ 3.9GHz

Batch: L726A951
VID: 1.275V
Cooling: Thermalright Ultra 120 eXtreme

i did a 4x run of superpi 32M and i was about 5 minutes difference between running a single instance of 32M...still...not as fast i would think it would be especialy when you factor in the 723 Mhz of memory speed and 3900 Mhz of quad core speed.

[pookguy88]

hmm, i've got a 1.25 VID G0. Compared to what i've seen, seems pretty low... i wonder if that's good or bad. I have to do that TR U120 Extreme mod before I push it.