Post your recent Q6600 purchases here (The Lookout for g0)

[Kashelz]

hmm, which G0 stepping cpu can do 3.8Ghz Orthos on all 4 cores with good water cooling? And aprox. at what voltage?

I need to know which one to take

[icon57]

720B seems about one of the best...from what i have read, but some others are doing well also 723A 724A 726A

[ChaosMinionX]

nice job at benching at 3.9 Ghz!

my max bench and everest stable is at 3.84 Ghz...if i want to go higher on the overclock, all the voltages have to be increased well beyond my comfort zone.

Soon as I get some more Liquid Metal, and a HR-03 R600... Im going to rebench at 4ghz

[GripS]

It's not prime stable by any means(I can't check due to the fact it gets too hot for comfort when trying to run prime). But i have a 1m pi screen @ 3.8ghz. I'll post it up a bit later. My work prohibits access to image hosting sights.

[Dede99]

Any information about B3's 645A,717A,719B and 721A that's what we have here in austria @ this time I just can't decide what to get or just wait until G0's arrive here also somewhere in end of september.

[Ace-a-Rue]

Turn that Frown Upside Down and do the right thing

there is no right thing....its over!...i presume your brain can process that.

[NaeKuh]

L720B066



still playing with her.

[justin_c]

oh cmon, whats with these 10 minute prime threads. nothing but stable.

[NaeKuh]

oh cmon, whats with these 10 minute prime threads. nothing but stable.

i told you im still playing with it.

So these are just intial. Give me a couple of days and i'll have everything done.

[sdumper]

Go ...hmm

Ok yep it will do 3.6 on 1.45ghz on air with a high speed fan and a v1 but its hot as hell 65c folding after only a few minutes...i wish i hadnt been suckered in by all the hype...

Very disappointed in temps...

week 23

[GripS]

temps are perfectly normal. There was some hype on how the 'G0' runs cooler. There were also several posts of people warning that temps were being misread. As i and many other had posted there is NO WAY your chip can run below ambient temperature using air cooling. Many of us said it. Apparently there were a few that didn't believe common sense.

Dont' get me wrong. I'm not saying you don't have common sense. But at the same time you should not have expected a HUGE drop in temps. Overclocking has always been the luck of the draw and it always will be. Some chips overclock higher. Some run cooler. None are guaranteed to do anything but stock speed.

[michaLcoughliN]

oh cmon, whats with these 10 minute prime threads. nothing but stable.

I agree. Even though people take Screenshots of it "while they still test" . I true SS should be posted showing at least 4+hrs.

pointless to post anything < then that IMO =/ but thats me.. Picky hehe

[ocZZZ]

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[NaeKuh]

I agree. Even though people take Screenshots of it "while they still test" . I true SS should be posted showing at least 4+hrs.

pointless to post anything < then that IMO =/ but thats me.. Picky hehe

well i have yet to see many people post vaild primes longer then 4+ hours. :P

Anyhow, she was stable at 3 hours when i took her off. I wasnt too happy with the startup voltage @ 1.51, and full load voltage @ 1.49V. If she would start and load at 1.49V i would be more inclined to keep her there.

But heres 1.46Vcore idle, 1.44Vcore loaded:

6.5Hours. There you happy?


Heh, love my load temps. :P

[justin_c]

ill see what i can do naekuh when i get my evga 680i. this dfi 680i lt is driving me crazy.

[bito]

Here's mine at 8 hours....small fft's for max. heat. Swiftech watercooled. Runs great

[projectrps13]

Just got mine last week at my local Microcenter, had the guy go to the back and look for me. Too back my OC is limited by the 975X chipset.. suxorz.

[Brother Esau]

there is no right thing....its over!...i presume your brain can process that.

[synergy]

Just picked up one at Oregon Fry's.
L727A903, packed 8/14/07, SLACR.

It may be a while before I find out the VID etc.
since I still need a video card and I may hold out for
the G92 '9800GTX' series which will mean waiting until
October or so.

I may also hold off until I can get a water cooling setup
for it. We'll see.

[vocch]

Here's my L720B062...over 4hr's and stll going on DS4 R1.0.....cooling is TRU non Extreme....weather HOT!

[mucker]

Q6600
L727A918
SLACR

ClubIt ordered Aug. 23

not installed yet

[MikeMK]

720B seems about one of the best...from what i have read, but some others are doing well also 723A 724A 726A

Thats great news, seeing as thats exactly what dropped on my doorstep on friday...

Here's my L720B062...over 4hr's and stll going on DS4 R1.0.....cooling is TRU non Extreme....weather HOT!

Mine is exactly the same week/batch... an L720B062... Only put it in last night and just priming an initial overclock now. 2hrs 15mins so far and still going...



A good start considering my B3 needs 1.35v to get anywhere near prime stable @ 3.2ghz.

[synergy]

Question about the condition of new retail box chips
for all of you that have received any kind of
'Core' Duo or Quad Intel CPUs with an IHS.

Has anyone received Intel CPUs with a metal IHS
that has any kind of scratching on the IHS that
looks as if it might have been scratched by something
like a square heatsink or water-block?

I just noticed there are scratch marks on the IHS
of the CPU I have that looks like a square heatsink,
water block, or some kind of square metal thing has scraped the IHS.

I don't see any residue of grease on the IHS from
the inspection I've made so far through the package's
window, but I'll have to look at it in better light in the
morning.

The scratches are not that severe that I noticed them
at the store, though they're clearly visible in offset light.

The box looks like it's still sealed with the
'Intel Factory Sealed' tape in two places, and otherwise
I'd have no problem in believing it's new, but I am
worried that maybe it's a returned one they've
repackaged or something.

The last Q6600 I got from ClubIT looked totally perfect
on its IHS with no scratch marks that I recall seeing,
and I know Fry's is known for selling things that've been
returned / opened, but I thought they'd be labeled as
such if that was the case, and it wouldn't have the
Intel seal tape on it unless it was either fake or they had
some way of resealing the returns with supplies they
got from Intel to permit that.

Should I believe it's just quite a few scratch marks
from the Intel assembly line and keep it or exchange
it for one that looks 100% untouched like my other
one did?

Just picked up one at Oregon Fry's.
L727A903, packed 8/14/07, SLACR.

[Ace-a-Rue]

i would exchage it....sounds like it got nicked during packaging.

[vocch]

If it looks like this i would say it's what intel use to test them...although mine looked fine after i lapped it lol.