*Official Retail G0 Q6600 Overclocking Thread*

[drnick79]

My Q6600 with Thermalright ultra 120 Extreme, to 3.825Mhz at 1.448 with temps 34-33-28-28 in Antec P182!!

Nice!!! Do you know the batch# or VID of your star performer?

Just curious- anyone have good luck so far with the new L8xx batches?

[manyga]

Nice!!! Do you know the batch# or VID of your star performer?

Just curious- anyone have good luck so far with the new L8xx batches?

Thanks bro!!

The batch is: L730B616 and vid is 1.2625v

Regardss from Spain!

[adpr_02]

Well, with my new BIOS, I tried priming it last night at 1.54v at 3.8ghz and it SEEMED to work. I had it running for 1 hour and 20 minutes, and then decided to call it a day. All the voltages I say are as specified by windows.

I REALLY don't think that it's a good thing running 1.54V through this thing 24/7, especially since when it's not in idle, that jumps up to 1.56V. Anybody used this proc. for a while at that high vcore, is it adviseable or not considering my temps never reach 60.

Either way, If 3.8 works, I'll just go for the big 4.0 and try to get it somewhat stable there just for benchmarks....


Just an interresting thing - with this new bios, I cannot seem to be able to run 3.6ghz stable anymore...... even though 3.8 is now stable.... I'm thinking it may be the multiplier or something as when I go for 3.6 I tone it down to 8x.

[drnick79]

I REALLY don't think that it's a good thing running 1.54V through this thing 24/7, especially since when it's not in idle, that jumps up to 1.56V. Anybody used this proc. for a while at that high vcore, is it adviseable or not considering my temps never reach 60.

I've tried to get a generally accepted ceiling vcore value for 24/7 use (if there is such a thing) on the q6600. I thought I've seen 1.55v listed once or twice, but I'm not sure what most people think.

[ZenEffect]

I've tried to get a generally accepted ceiling vcore value for 24/7 use (if there is such a thing) on the q6600. I thought I've seen 1.55v listed once or twice, but I'm not sure what most people think.

white paper says 1.55v max

http://download.intel.com/design/pro...s/31559205.pdf
section 2; table 3 Absolute Maximum and Minimum Ratings

[DDTUNG]

I've been running an X3220 ES B3 at 1.57 actual Vcore, 422x9, 24/7/365 with 100% load(WCG crunching) for over a year under watercooling and it is going strong.

DDTUNG