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Overclocking a Q6600 Quad

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Chrisht256

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I was in desperate need of a new computer as I was on a 5 year old laptop before and my friend was nice enough to basically let me have his old system which is still pretty decent by today's standard in my opinion as I don't do any hardcore rendering just Gaming and the computer runs the game I play on ultra with 60 fps all day but I want to overclock it a little bit to be able to stream decently without too much trouble and the Q6600 from what I understand should be able to OC to about 3ghz pretty stable on just Air.

my only dilemma is that the CPU happens to be a B3 instead of the good G0 which after testing seems to not heat up as much as some people's does but it still gets pretty hot.

I'm on a Asus p5q turbo mainboard
and using a Copper zerotherm heatsink

PSU is a cooler master450w so that shouldn't be a problem. This processor really needs to hit 3ghz to be viable in my opinion and I get mixed opinions if it could actually hit that since its a B3. Any ideas? Should I get a new Cooling option and try or you think it'll be highly possibly to hit 3ghz with it like it is?
 
Really? because I've heard people saying they had tough time getting 3ghz stable.

I guess it would depend on what board they were useing.. some boards didnt like quads too much. Also, some of the last B3's made were just as good as G0's were :eek:

I had one of the first G0's when the came out, it took alot of voltage but ran cool, I had a much later G0 that did 3.4 with stock voltage, but it ran hot :mad: and it hated voltage, and air cooling in general :D
 
I guess it would depend on what board they were useing.. some boards didnt like quads too much. Also, some of the last B3's made were just as good as G0's were :eek:

I had one of the first G0's when the came out, it took alot of voltage but ran cool, I had a much later G0 that did 3.4 with stock voltage, but it ran hot :mad: and it hated voltage, and air cooling in general :D

Idle
1-37
2-33
3-30
4-33

Load about 20 mins in with Prime95 ( wasn't changing so stopped with test after 20-30 mins )
1-64
2-64
3-59
4-60

This is stock ( after market cooling listed above )

is this safe to overclock=o? I'm only looking to get about 3-3.2 ghz out of this just so I can play games that are CPU intensive like SC2 a little better since it only supports dual core. From What I understand it idles pretty low for a B3 but those load temps are what most people are stating they are at after OCing to like 3.6 ghz so I'm a little worried=/ Of course the person who did the test lives in a hotter area then me and my room is usually quite cold probably like 60 degrees or so since I live in New england so I figure my results would be slightly lower but still. Anyone give me a thumbs up for this or should I probably dump out a little more on a more expensive cooler
 
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Really? because I've heard people saying they had tough time getting 3ghz stable.

Mine will not hit 3GHz. 2.95 GHz is the max it will run at stable. I run it at 2.83GHz. Margin of safety and all that.
 
Going from stock to 3.0 won't increase your temps considerably. Especially if you havent minimized your stock vcore. If that's the case then your 3.0 may be even cooler than stock unminimized vcore... Not kidding.

My Q6600 vcore @ auto was 1.27V.
My Q6600 minimized stable vcore 1.09V.
Both 2.4 Ghz.
 
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