*Official Retail G0 Q6600 Overclocking Thread*

[Robin BP]

If your gonna make the claims please post the screens.

tell me what you want to see ??

[dzeuk_ph]

AFAIK, VID has shown no correlation with overclockability,,

just temps, I guess..

BTW, can you post MAX FSB for your q6600?.. thanks guys..

[TheWolf]

Got a new Q6600 from ClubIt today batch: L724B175 VID: 1.2625v OEM not retail..

Here is a quick test of two hours prime stable & its lowest vcore set in bios 1.2625v.
Just wanted to see how far it would go & still be stable without moving the voltage.
I did bump the MCH one notch was all, everything else was at stock setting except ram.
Load shot note actual vcore is only 1.19v real volts under load.
I'll do more testing later on, letting it burn in some at 3.2.

[CraptacularOne]

Okay thanks.
And are there no clear correlation between the A and B batches ?

And with one can i take than for the lowest VID ?
I read that there are 2 different CPU's are, that have 1,100 and one 1,3500 standaard.
Witch one are the best ?

Actually from what I've seen so far the A batches are outperforming the B batches, and the most consistent week for a good overclock is week 26. So look for a L726A*** quad and you have a really good chance of getting a pretty nice overclock

[RLM]

Actually from what I've seen so far the A batches are outperforming the B batches, and the most consistent week for a good overclock is week 26. So look for a L726A*** quad and you have a really good chance of getting a pretty nice overclock

Don't agree with that. Looking at your table, volts required etc, and my own 'B' they seem about on par with the L726A's.

RLM

[mario2008]

Here is my I didnt overclock yet thinking about it.

IDLE


LOAD with prime 95


my room temperature was around 13 Celsius when I ran those test for houre, is my temperature ok?

My spec are Quad go stepping with thermalright 120 extreme-120fan

P35 GA DS3P

Crucial 8500 2 gig

500 HD SATA

Thermalright 8000 case

[RLM]

Decent vid on that chip Mario

RLM

[GripS]

Here is my I didnt overclock yet thinking about it.

IDLE


LOAD with prime 95


my room temperature was around 13 Celsius when I ran those test for houre, is my temperature ok?

My spec are Quad go stepping with thermalright 120 extreme-120fan

P35 GA DS3P

Crucial 8500 2 gig

500 HD SATA

Thermalright 8000 case

That is a very low VID. Oveclock that biatch!!

[Robin BP]

Trying to improve my temps, have lowerd the Vcore so only time will tell how stabel its on 1,424v.

Will update later how this goes.

[Snake_Eyes]

Here is my I didnt overclock yet thinking about it.

IDLE


LOAD with prime 95


my room temperature was around 13 Celsius when I ran those test for houre, is my temperature ok?

My spec are Quad go stepping with thermalright 120 extreme-120fan

P35 GA DS3P

Crucial 8500 2 gig

500 HD SATA

Thermalright 8000 case

Room temprature 13 Celcius ?? whoow thats verry cold brrrr.
And what are the idle and stressed temps if the room temp are 21 a 22 celcius ?

[Robin BP]

Tried 4 Ghz but my Pc would freeze after a few min. running Prime ,dont know why.

[RLM]

Tried 4 Ghz but my Pc would freeze after a few min. running Prime ,dont know why.

1.52v is a bit ambitious for 4ghz. Maybe a bit more voltage?

RLM

[CraptacularOne]

Don't agree with that. Looking at your table, volts required etc, and my own 'B' they seem about on par with the L726A's.

RLM

Then you need to and look again. The A batches are requiring less voltage than yours and are running faster. Volt for volt the A's are getting higher than the B's

[RLM]

Then you need to and look again. The A batches are requiring less voltage than yours and are running faster. Volt for volt the A's are getting higher than the B's

What mine personally I posted a prime run in your database earlier 3.9 ghz at 1.52v. Admittedly not a long run

I did look again and you could be right, however you do seem to have B's doing prime runs at 3.6 ghz with 1.38v sat below A's doing 3.6 ghz with 1.41+ volts.

I'll admit I'm a sketchy sod, so I could be missing something. Does look like maybe some re-ordering is needed though. Yes/No?

What I will say is that the B's are inconsistent. My last L723B(same stepping) had a vid of 1.3 and was at best average.

RLM

[Robin BP]

And my 726B does 3600 1,36v and 3800 1,42v Prime stabel.

[RLM]

I didn't mean for this to turn into some B v A wars. It's all a bit petty isn't it?

No dis-respect CraptacularOne. I'd been thinking that we needed a Q6600 database here weeks ago, and at least you've been bothered to do that.

RLM

[Snake_Eyes]

What are the VID's of the A and B batches ?
I think i got a A batch, but are the VID's of the A and B batches the same ?
I would to have one that have a low vid.
Witch one are the best than A or B batch ?

[RLM]

Well as I said with my experience of the B's you can have two of the same stepping with different vids, so it's hard to say.

RLM

[Snake_Eyes]

Well as I said with my experience of the B's you can have two of the same stepping with different vids, so it's hard to say.

RLM

Hm okay and what for VID's you have seen with those 2 ?
The minimum and max.

[RLM]

My current one is 1.275 and the previous 1.300. The previous one needed 1.45v to prime 3.6ghz and this one 1.36v.

RLM

[Snake_Eyes]

My current one is 1.275 and the previous 1.300. The previous one needed 1.45v to prime 3.6ghz and this one 1.36v.

RLM

Okay thanks.
Hoply i get the good one than.
Can you see it on the box, if the VID are low ?

[GripS]

tell me what you want to see ??

oh i dunno? Proof? (prime running for 8 hours)

[crossg]

I didn't mean for this to turn into some B v A wars. It's all a bit petty isn't it?

No dis-respect CraptacularOne. I'd been thinking that we needed a Q6600 database here weeks ago, and at least you've been bothered to do that.

RLM

You mean a A v B war.
Maybe when more B chips show up CraptacularOne's Quad data base will show some kind of trend hopefully.

[Rilla927]

Hey guys,

I checked the driver signing for the Q6600 and it says 04/01/2004 from Microsoft. Is this what you guys have?

I looked around at Intel site for a driver for this processor but didn't find anything.

My old AMD had a driver for the processor so I assumed it worked that way with others. This is my first Intel processor.

[wedfighter]

here's my Q6600 with ABIT IP 35-E
this cheap board is not bad at all

EDIT : on stock cooling