Q6600 G0 - bad clocks off latest batches?

Mussels · Apr 21, 2008

Lately i've been seeing a lot of people struggling to overclock their G0's - needing around 1.5v or so to break 3.2Ghz.

I'm trying to sell my Q6600, and a few doubters are saying my lapped quads that do 3.6GHz at 1.425v arent very special, while i'm arguing that the latest ones seem to be utter crap in comparison.

Anyone out there who got a Q6600 late 2007/ anytime 2008 want to share your max OC, and what voltage it needs? (esp. 3.2Ghz+ range)

Kursah · Apr 21, 2008

Well mine should be showing up Tues/Wed...it came from the $180 Fry's sale last week...I'm hoping it'll OC decently...I'll letcha know!

:toast:

Mussels · Apr 21, 2008

thanks thats what i want to know. Its funny how people think lapping a chip reduces its value, when OCing already voided the warranty...

erocker · Apr 21, 2008

Pack date of 8/10/2007 This isn't my max OC but what I run 24/7 VID = 1.2875

sneekypeet · Apr 21, 2008

I think lapping only reduces its value if you dont trust the seller. It is sort of a gamble...who really knows if your screenie is for the CPU in question!

thebeephaha · Apr 21, 2008

Mine is around 4-6 months old, I can't remember but on my other motherboard off at RMA right now got 3.4-3.6 easily under 1.5v. I'm doing 3.2 right now though on 1.35v.

FR@NK · Apr 21, 2008

I got my Q6600 G0 in jan 08, it was pulled from a new acer desktop :/ with cheap cooling it does 3.6GHz @ 1.36v and 4.0GHz with 1.52v.

francis511 · Apr 21, 2008

Right..

JacKz5o · Apr 21, 2008

Kursah said:
Well mine should be showing up Tues/Wed...it came from the $180 Fry's sale last week...I'm hoping it'll OC decently...I'll letcha know!

Same, my DHL ETA is 4/22. Will post back how it overclocks

xu^ · Apr 21, 2008

i run mine at 3ghz 24/7 stock volts ,but ive also run it at 3.2ghz for a week or so also on stock volts with nps ,it was just a little warm due to my low end cooling so i dropped it back down to 3ghz.

calvary1980 · Apr 21, 2008

I have also noticed this, 3.6Ghz was a fair achievement last year but it seems people are aiming as high as 3.2Ghz.

- Christine

Mussels · Apr 21, 2008

calvary1980 said:
I have also noticed this, 3.6Ghz was a fair achievement last year but it seems people are aiming as high as 3.2Ghz.

- Christine

christine... did you mean 4.2?

a lot of people in this thread are posting otherwise to what i thought, but at least i'm not the only one to have seen changes. I got stung with this when allendales went bad (had an E4300 that OC'd great, reccomended them to a few friends with E4400 and E4500 and not one passed 3Ghz even on TRUE 120's)

So the consensus is... what? please give more results!

magibeg · Apr 21, 2008

Well i'm not sure of the age of my chip for when it was made but i bought my computer earlier this year and it happily does 3.6ghz prime stable at 1.5v in bios. Although its more like 1.43v after factoring in the vdroop.

Mussels · Apr 21, 2008

magibeg said:
Well i'm not sure of the age of my chip for when it was made but i bought my computer earlier this year and it happily does 3.6ghz prime stable at 1.5v in bios. Although its more like 1.43v after factoring in the vdroop.

why not turn on the anti vdroop feature? works perfectly on my P5K-E wifi.

t_ski · Apr 21, 2008

Right now I'm playing with mine at 3.6GHz at 1.375v. It is an L744B127 with a stock vid of 1.25v.

Mussels · Apr 21, 2008

t_ski said:
Right now I'm playing with mine at 3.6GHz at 1.375v. It is an L744B127 with a stock vid of 1.25v.

when did you buy it?

Azazel · Apr 21, 2008

yep

trog100 · Apr 21, 2008

intel dont sell chips designed to overclock.. 2.4 gig out of the box isnt very fast..

folks who seem to think intel speed bin a 2.4 gig chip relative to its overlcocking ability really are in dream land..

the idea that intel wont sell a 2.4 gig chip cos it wont overclock past 3 gig is nonsense..

the q6600 is the bottom line quad.. it comes clocked at 2.4 gig way slower than it could come clocked at because thats all intel have to sell it at.. it was priced and clocked to match the amd phenom..

if the phenom went faster so would the q6600.. if intel wished to they could scrap the 2.4 gig chip and have a 2.8 gig quad as the bottom line.. it would be the same chip and reach the same max overclock speeds and cost the same price..

in fact OC/UK sell stock q6600s.. they sell ones guaranteed to run at 3 gig for extra money.. they sell ones guaranteed to run at 3.3 gig for extra money still..

do they take em out of the box and test em.. nope they just know that 99% of the chips will run at 3.3 gig.. if u pay the extra money and get one that wont run at 3.3 gig (highly unlikely and more so with guaranteed 3 gig ones) u send it back and they send u one that will..

what they dont do is sell one guaranteed to run at 3.6 gig.. life would get way tooo complicated then..

is the double price q6700 exactly the same as the q6600 just with a different multiplier.. i see absolutely no reason why not.. to assume its better just cos it costs more is stupid and based on nothing other than a belief in the likes of tooth fairies

when all chips run at 3.3 gig some at 3.6 gig there aint no need to speed bin the ones sold at 2.4 gig or 2.66.. intel aint yer fairy godmother..

i see no reason for later chips to be worse chips.. mostly as the lines runs longer chips get better.. relative to the intel chips real abilities 2.4 gig is a joke and exists purely to match the phenom which at 2.2 and 2.4 gig was also a joke..

as amd try and compete and get cheaper so will intel.. hence the intel price drops.. note they drop the price not increase the stock speed of the bottom end chips..

basically intel are toying with amd and the poor sods can do nothing about it..

if intel wished they could make a 3 gig quad the bottom line and sell it for cheapo prices.. the higher end expensive chips could all move up a notch speed wise and the entire price structure maintained..

its lucky for amd they dont bother.. as i have said many time.. we dont overclcok intel chips.. they deliberatley sell us underclocked ones.. blame (or thank) the lack luster competition for this..

trog

magibeg · Apr 21, 2008

Mussels said:
why not turn on the anti vdroop feature? works perfectly on my P5K-E wifi.

Unfortunately thats with the anti-droop feature on *tear*.

TeKniK · Apr 21, 2008

pack date 8/10/2007 q6600 go slacr. currently doing 3.33 on 1.4375v(1.368 after droop) 24/7. bought from ebuyer in november.

t_ski · Apr 21, 2008

Mussels said:
when did you buy it?

I bought it in February from someone on another forum, but I'm not sure how long he had it. I want to say that I don't think it matters much when you bought it, but when it was produced. That's the reason I gave the batch code. L744 refers to the 44th week of 2007. You could buy one today that is a very old batch code, if the place you buy it from has some old stock.

{JNT}Raptor · Apr 21, 2008

I picked up mine on 3-13-08 and It needs 1.475 to do 3200...I can get It stable at 3300 but It needs 1.55 and even on water I don't look at It as a good risk/reward tradeoff.

Was looking for 3.4 or better.....but what can ya do......I'm happy.....Just not OMFG happy.

Nitro-Max · Apr 21, 2008

3.6ghz @ 1.376v 24/7 vid 1.275v

philbrown23 · Apr 21, 2008

well I just got one about 2 weeks ago and though it does need more voltage I can still hit 3.8ghz on it in fact last night I hit 3.9ghz though the temps almost hit 70 it never froze up.

Nitro-Max · Apr 21, 2008

are these bad voltages out of the box or has the chip degraded over time ?

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