*Official Retail G0 Q6600 Overclocking Thread*

[fordf250]

I found that uses 1:1 dividers provides no better overclocking than using memory dividers. Every "GO" should be able to hit 3.6Ghz, after that it takes big voltage or what I like to call brute force to gain a stable overclock over 3.6Ghz.

My highest Core hit 68C for a brief moment of online gaming.

Has anybody hit anything above 3.6Ghz stable on air? 3.6 seems to be the wall for air cooling. I'm not saying you can't push it higher. I'm talking about 24x7 stable overclocks.

Alot of people post overclocks that they've achieved but they forget to mention that they are not 24x7 overclocks.

It looks like the 45nm will allow 4Ghz+ overclocks on air.

I have change from air to water and back with cpu,s from 2 diff mb,s and never seen a cpu need more volts when going from water to air so if your cpu is stable at 3.8G with 1.4V on water it will be stable at 1.4V at 3.8G on air it your heatsink can get that heat out. I ran the first q6600 I had at 3.8G and 1.725V for 68C 1hour OCCT on air. When I put it under water it did not clock any better and still needed the same volts just running 20C cooler.

The q6600 I have now in the same rig runs 4G at 1.55V and 51C all the time and runs 3.8G easy at 1.4V even at 475fsbx8 on 780i.