*Official Retail G0 Q6600 Overclocking Thread*

[C'DaleRider]

As for the price cut, Intel has one "scheduled" for today, the 20th. The Q6600 is supposed to drop by $43 in lot sizes....don't know what it'll do individually. Time will tell, I suppose.


I do own a Q6600 myself.....lot# L745....


I am somewhat of a very lazy OC'er......the cpu is runing on an Asus X38 board, a Maximus Formula.

Leaving all setting at auto except for forcing my PCI-e speed to run at 100MHz, cpu voltage set to 1.35V, NB voltage at 1.5V, and RAM voltage at 2.0V, I've been able to run my cpu at 3.6GHz. That's stable under hour after hour of OCCT.

I have had it boot at 3.9GHz, 1.51V, all other setting again left in auto, but fails OCCT after just a couple of minutes.

Not really sure which or what setting to try tweaking, but 3.6 @ 1.35V seems to me to be a decent OC. My temps, under watercooling, really never seem to hit more than 52C on the "hotter" cores of the two pairs of cores. (The other "core" never gets near 50C running OCCT at 3.6GHz.)

Everest gives my VID at 1.238V.

Guess I'll just let sleeping dogs lie and be very satisfied that it does what it does.

[ChaosAD]

I would like to ask you something. My previous Q6600 had a vid of 1.325. Used to run 8x425@1.41v while the absolut minimun Vcore to boot in Vistax64 was 1.34375 in Bios, 1.328 in Cpu-z. After some search to find a new chip i found a friend with absolut no knowledge of pc's and o/c ofc and i traded my old chip for this new one. When i asked him to check his VID before trading he read CoreTemp and reported 1.1625.

So long story short we made the trade, i installed my old cpu in his mobo and his cpu in mine.After i logged in Vista my core temp/everest report a vid of 1.3 (not 1.325 from old cpu, or 1.1625 from the new one), while his core temp report the old vid of 1.1625. Is this normal?Is this bug?If i reinstall Vista will this fix this error?

Now i test my new Q6600 8x425@1.304 in cpu and passed 30 min of prime