Got my Q6600 yesterday. And I´m impressed! Both at how cool it runs and how good it clocks. Before I had dualcore 2160 and e8400. I sure liked both of them but it is something special to run a Quad

I never thought that 4 cores could run this cool. My new Quad runs cooler at 3,6 Ghz than my 2160 did at 3,6 ghz without IHS. I had some trouble at first, getting a good OC but then I saw that I had LoadLine calibration disabled. When I enabled it, it became a complete different story.

3,0 Ghz was a of course a simple task, 3.4 too. At 3.6 I had to finetune some setting to get stable, I raised Fsb termination to 1.4 and vcore to 1.4. My coretemps didnt get over 70 with absolute full load at all 4 cores (S&M cpu (fpu). I started to play a little with 3.8 Ghz but had some trouble getting stable. I dont think this is going to be a problem, just need some more testing.

I absolutley Love this cpu, Q6600 still rules

I think this chip is good for at least 3.8 ghz on air.