*Official Retail G0 Q6600 Overclocking Thread*

[unclewebb]

The reason I decided TjMax=95C for the Q6600 - G0 was because of what I saw during real world testing. Here's a couple of pictures I took 2 seconds apart.





Every other program has decided to assume TjMax=100C. There is no documentation from Intel to support that number and from what I saw during testing, that number is certainly debatable. This test was on my brand new Quad so I didn't push it as far as I would have liked and trying to get some good pics while juggling a camera, a temp gun and 4 cores without a heatsink wasn't easy.

CoreTemp and Everest using TjMax=105C for 45nm seems to be dead wrong but everyone still assumes that they are getting TjMax right for 65nm. Why?

Intel plans to give full disclosure on their 45nm sensors later this week at the IDF conference so I'm hoping that they also talk about TjMax for the previous 65nm generation to finally get this cleared up. If they have nothing to say about 65nm then next weekend I will pull off my heatsink and do a more thorough test.