Intel Q6600 CPU 25% overclock.

I OC'ed this CPU to 3.0 GHz. Ran stable and smooth, but I didn't do any benchmarks, nor did I care to. Some people did higher OC jobs on this one, going to 3.2 - 3.6 Ghz, but what I wanted here is good temps and not to see this particular client on the count of his CPU burned over some time, since as you know, OC'ing shortens CPU life cycle. Tcase temp for the G0 stepping version of Q6600 is 71.5 C, and I got 59C top on the full load during 9.5 hours of testing. Ambient during test phase was between 24.5 - 27.5 C and the case fans were kept on the medium setting, except the back 120mm, and the cooler's fans, since they're 3-pin fans (always on full blast).

Specs:

Cooler Master Storm Sniper Black Edition

Asus P5N-D motherboard

Core 2 Quad Q6600 CPU

Thermaltake TR2 RX 750 Watt modular PSU

Corsair XMS2-6400 DDR2 800MHz 5-5-5-18 1.80V 2x2GB

Corsair A70 performance aircooler

EVGA GT 240 512MB Superclocked Edition

Category:

Science & Technology

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• Cooler
• Master
• Storm
• Sniper
• Black
• Edition
• Asus
• P5N-D
• motherboard
• Core
• Quad
• Q6600
• CPU
• Thermaltake
• TR2
• RX
• 750
• Watt
• modular
• PSU
• Corsair
• XMS2-6400
• DDR2
• 800MHz
• 5-5-5-18
• 1.80V
• 2x2GB
• A70
• performance
• aircooler
• EVGA
• GT
• 240
• 512MB
• Superclocked

[willcm05]

I have a Sniper case black edition and one of my fans crapped out. Do you where i can get the original 200mm fan with LEDs?

[zver711]

@willcm05 Have you tried Cooler Master site?

[willcm05]

@zver711 Yes, man... But they only have a different type of 200mm with no speed sensor... I have googled it and there one seems to be one company in CA that carries them, but it doesn't look trustworthy. I guess I have to call Cooler Master and see If i get lucky since that case is still under warranty.

[zver711]

@willcm05 There are tons of sites but I usually shop at either PerformancePCS or FrozenCPU. Check them out.

[davmrls]

How you doing? I just finished watching your vid on Intel Q6600 CPU 25% overclock. Can you send me the exact settings you made in the bios to overclock the Q6600?



[zver711]

@davmrls I can't possibly tell you that since it was over a year ago and it was a client's machine, and I haven't seen it since. Those settings are lost in my memory, like the tears in the rain...

[Ret2121]

@davmrls search for the 420 pin mod/tape mod, safe and easy. The Q6600 quad core is first generation technology, I've seen this cpu hit 4Ghz! don't do it, you'll burn yours up, they had a fat cooling system for it. Either way you can use the pin mod to achieve the 3.0 ghz in less than 15 minutes or so, if you feel the want for more use FSB tool to increase it further, depending on your memory (1066) you can also increase to (1333). But like he was sayin, my memory might be off a bit, old tech.

[zver711]

@grenadesforballs I overclocked Q9650 to 4.0 from 3.0 with room to spare. Was very stable and still is, dude never complained.

[zver711]

@mikey9890 I can't complain about the temps, this cooler might help to achieve, dare I say, MUCH higher overclock. I also ran a 24 hour test on OCCT and 24 hour test on Prime95 with no errors or spikes, and the highest temp it shown was 59C so... I wouldn't worry. Plus this computer is used for video and photo processing, and some light office work by an older dude, so I don't think its gonna go to a 100% use too often.

[mikey9890]

I have same cpu at 3ghz and it has the same problem with core 1 higher than the others. Also why wad your cpu voltage so high? I undervolted my cpu from 1.25 to 1.15 so now it runs cooler as well.