Q6600 G0 - bad clocks off latest batches?

[mitsirfishi]

right ive had 3.5 at 1.51 69c full loaded on a xiggy s1283 still going but going to buy a swiftec h20-220 compact shortly hopefully reduce my temps slightly

my temps safe ?

 

[a_ump]

well got mine feb 3rd 08, i had mine at 3.4GHz for futurmark, and it only happened once, took a shit load of tweaking, but basically the highest mine goes is 3.15 for decent temps, 3.2 for accetable(45 idle,58 load)
now i haven't messed with 3.2 in a while, but i know i had my 3.15 at 1.29volts, and after 3.2 it would just bsod to hell, could be my mobo. getting a P45 so i'll update then. but yea i was dissapointed i lookin for 3.2 easily but it came at a struggle and 3.15 is the only thing stable 24/7.

 

[Chewy]

up to 70c is safe a ump, even for everyday use someone said previously in a post in this thread. I like keeping mine cool too though, gaming and running orthos on stock cooling, I hit 62c on 2 of my 4 cores.

 

[a_ump]

yea, my borderline was always 60, it's summer though and i'm runnin 48, now on speedfan, it says CPU 48, but on my cores it says
core 0:45
core 1:44
core 2:44
core 3:45
so is my core actually like 44.5 Celcius or 48 like it says

 

[mitsirfishi]

up to 70c is safe a ump, even for everyday use someone said previously in a post in this thread. I like keeping mine cool too though, gaming and running orthos on stock cooling, I hit 62c on 2 of my 4 cores.

but how oftern does games stress all cores ? fully hardly so when i run grid ect ect it hangs around mid 50's idel is 35 but we are starting to get warm summer in uk

 

[Chewy]

yeah I gotta keep my clocks low for now, my room is to hot. I have a ps3 37" lcd and my rig all in my bedroom lol, thats why Im not going for more overclock until the fall/winter.

I get what ya mean though, gaming dont stress the cpu like prime or Orthos does.

 

[a_ump]

few questions, i dropped my voltage on my q6600 at 2.4 cause my room like yours is hot.
now in bios i put 1.2 for voltage but beside it it says current voltage 1.14 and i have saved the setting to 1.2, why does it go lower?
and i just passed a 1 hr OCCT test at 1.2 my setting/ 1.14 according to bios and OCCT test.
now my cores went from 44 idle to 61 max. now i'm hoping i can lower the voltage enough stabily to hit 38-40 idl and 56 or so load

 

[Mussels]

up to 70c is safe a ump, even for everyday use someone said previously in a post in this thread. I like keeping mine cool too though, gaming and running orthos on stock cooling, I hit 62c on 2 of my 4 cores.

70C is the max load i'd ever run at, and thats with high ambients. Always keep in mind that if you're stress testing at night or with the AC on, its going to get hotter at other times.

 

[Chewy]

^^ Tru dat, Im not doing anythign to intensive that I need a rush on so I will keep my max temp @ 70c when running orthos once I get my water cooling in

now in bios i put 1.2 for voltage but beside it it says current voltage 1.14 and i have saved the setting to 1.2, why does it go lower?

I checked my bios aswell I set mine to 1.15v but in the hardware monitor part of bios it says 1.104v or somethign like that.. my only guess is that it could be vdroop.. not a bad thing I guess maybe thats the actual voltage our chips are receiving.

 

[FR@NK]

70C is the max load i'd ever run at, and thats with high ambients.

+1

60C is fine and 70C is too hot IMO

in bios i put 1.2 for voltage but beside it it says current voltage 1.14 and i have saved the setting to 1.2, why does it go lower?

The value in the bios is the max voltage that the board will provide to the chip.

link

 

[mitsirfishi]

good one fr@nk

 

[Pixelated]

q9300 is a pos and no it doesn't clock further than the q6600. well maybe these late batch ones but it has less cache 6mb l2 vs 8mb l2 on the q6600, a super low multiplier of 7.5 which means to hit 3.5GHZ you need aboard that will do 500fsb on a quad, which isn't your run of the mill board (though the biostar p45's seem to easily enough) tack that all onto the fact that it's more expensive than the q6600 and the q6700. and you've got a pos cpu.

but at a slightly higher cost than the q6700 it makes no sense whatsoever and whoever buys one is wasting time and money. the q6700 doenst seem to be suffering from these batch issues and will clock to 3.6GHZ on stock air, 4GHZ on decent air. decent water ~4.5GHZ no q9300 will match that, and the q9450 even struggles to.

I have never heard of any Q6600 or Q6700's hitting 4.0Ghz on air or even 4.5Ghz on water, without disabling 2 of the cores which is defeating the purpose of buying and overclocking a quad IMO. I had a Q6600 G0 in a single 1/2" loop with a PA 120.2 with 4 120mm high RPM fans (Push\Pull). In fact to hit 4.1Ghz on my quad took damn near 1.6v to do it and even then it was far from stable at that speed. It idled at 50c and around 65c-70c under load so I can't imagine the temps at 4.0Ghz with an air cooler, even a good air cooler.

 

[Mussels]

I have never heard of any Q6600 or Q6700's hitting 4.0Ghz on air or even 4.5Ghz on water, without disabling 2 of the cores which is defeating the purpose of buying and overclocking a quad IMO. I had a Q6600 G0 in a single 1/2" loop with a PA 120.2 with 4 120mm high RPM fans (Push\Pull). In fact to hit 4.1Ghz on my quad took damn near 1.6v to do it and even then it was far from stable at that speed. It idled at 50c and around 65c-70c under load so I can't imagine the temps at 4.0Ghz with an air cooler, even a good air cooler.

with the original, early batches it was rather common. Mine can do 3.8Ghz on air, just that the temps/noise are excessive.

 

[yogurt_21]

I have never heard of any Q6600 or Q6700's hitting 4.0Ghz on air or even 4.5Ghz on water, without disabling 2 of the cores which is defeating the purpose of buying and overclocking a quad IMO. I had a Q6600 G0 in a single 1/2" loop with a PA 120.2 with 4 120mm high RPM fans (Push\Pull). In fact to hit 4.1Ghz on my quad took damn near 1.6v to do it and even then it was far from stable at that speed. It idled at 50c and around 65c-70c under load so I can't imagine the temps at 4.0Ghz with an air cooler, even a good air cooler.

then you've never had a q6700. or you had a really crappy second hand one, because point in case I've yet to see one that didn't. now if you're refering to the QX6700 then you'd be right.

 

[mitsirfishi]

well those temps on water are rather poor... 50c idel something is wrong there but like mussels said early ones tent to clock good you maybe lucky and get a chip which doesnt need the volts and still can get good clockspeed/fsb