Q6600 B3 watercooled water o/c to expect?

[lloydy]

hi ive just brought my new system, ive got a Q6600 B3 water cooled, running at 32'c idle, 49'c full load. in a asus P5K-E mobo. with 2gb ocz pc2-6400 ddr2 ram 5-5-5-15, with a ichill series inno3d 7600 GT. i was just wondering what kind of over clock i could expect. o and ive got a corsair 520w psu

[shirker]

roughly 3.4-3.6GHz, but there are quite a few other factors you'd need to consider

[lloydy]

what are they? i am going to get another rad for my watercooling to try and lower temperatures a bit at load

[jason4207]

You've got a good start w/ some pretty good gear. Make sure your case has good ventilation, and you might want some active cooling on your MOSFETS, NB, and RAM since you are water-cooling, and don't have a CPU fan to move air around.

Read, read, read. Research. Google is your friend, but I'd start w/ reading as many stickies as you can handle from several of the sub-forums on here if you haven't all ready done so. Once you have a better understanding of how it all works, and have gone through the BIOS and checked things out, then start asking questions and I'm sure you'll get the help you need.

[shirker]

what are they? i am going to get another rad for my watercooling to try and lower temperatures a bit at load
besides for your actual water-cooling setup, your motherboard choice plays a huge part, as it may not be able to handle high fsb speeds, or it may not have the options or flexibility (cpu voltage, NB voltage, etc) for you to push a Q6600 to the max. then comes the the CPU itself, if you get lucky and happen to get a lower voltage/lower VID Q6600, it could mean high clock speeds attainable with reasonably lower voltage levels, or alternatively you could luck out with a chip that eats voltage for breakfast and runs fine at its upper limits. you could even get stuck with one from a "bad" batch that will hardly go above 3.2GHz, but even that is unlikely

[orion456]

hi ive just brought my new system, ive got a Q6600 B3 water cooled, running at 32'c idle, 49'c full load. in a asus P5K-E mobo. with 2gb ocz pc2-6400 ddr2 ram 5-5-5-15, with a ichill series inno3d 7600 GT. i was just wondering what kind of over clock i could expect. o and ive got a corsair 520w psu

A B3 is anywhere from 3 -> 3.6 ghz. I think 3.2 is the goal. If you have good equipment then anything over 3.2 is pretty much luck in getting a good chip. Later B3s don't seem to be overclocking as well.

[Stratcat]

To answer your original question, check out my sig.

FWIW: X3220 = Xeon branded Kentsfield (Q6600 equivalent).

This is ultra stable running Distributed Computing on all 4 cores 24/7. It will still scale with additional Vcore, but I hate to really beat on the mobo much more. It's really cookin' as it is, with 1.5125V set in the BIOS, and 1.4750V actual when fully loaded, due to droop.

~ Strat ~

[lloydy]

cool well will give it a shot when the weather cools down a bit, makes my room SO hot!!!! is my mobo a good one?

[lloydy]

i dont think i should have any problems with heat, ive got 7 120mm fans taking air through my case ( one of psu but that sucks in through the side panel and straight out the back)

[lloydy]

my voltages according to core temp are 1.3v and accoring to cpu-z are 1.24v is that any good?

[Stratcat]

^^^

Are you sure you're not looking at the chip's VID in Core Temp?

A VID of 1.3 and CPU-Z reading 1.24 would imply 60mV droop from your BIOS' "assigned" Vcore to your "actual" Vcore.

And yes, that does sound about the right amount of droop for a B3 Kentsfield, depending on mobo, load, OC, etc.

~ Strat ~

[lloydy]

o yeah i was, it was running 100% load, on stock speed, with aus p5k-e

[Stratcat]

o yeah i was, it was running 100% load, on stock speed, with aus p5k-eThat's then a reasonable droop for an unmodded board with a fully loaded Kentsfield, IMHO.

~ Strat ~

[Hipcrostino]

Asus P5K-E should be good for overclocking. At least it better be, i have one and a q6600 on the way too

[prpz]

You might end up like me lol with an extra rad at 3.2 now June 07 batch B3 1.35 vcore set in bios on a p35 gigabyte dsr3 and still hitting 65-66 on load......waiting for those 200 hours for the arctic silver to set in according to their site and get that 2-5C drop

[shirker]

You might end up like me lol with an extra rad at 3.2 now June 07 batch B3 1.35 vcore set in bios on a p35 gigabyte dsr3 and still hitting 65-66 on load......waiting for those 200 hours for the arctic silver to set in according to their site and get that 2-5C dropdon't get your hopes up too much...realistically, if the temperature drops at all after it has cured, you'll see maybe a 2-3C decrease :-/

[lloydy]

the do run really hot these things, tick over on idle at 4 'c above what the mobo is running at, put them under load and the top sky rockets!! ill let you all know how i do at the beggining of september when i get my second rad in

[prpz]

don't get your hopes up too much...realistically, if the temperature drops at all after it has cured, you'll see maybe a 2-3C decrease :-/

lol u just killed them along with me.....:(