tazevedo317 Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 i know the performance increase is gonna be huge but i have a E4400@3.33GHz but it runs pretty hot how well should the q6600 be with an arctic cooling freezer 7? and do you think hittign like 3.6GHz is unreal on that cpu? i know some people hit 4GHz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teknojunkie Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 i use a zalman cooler overclocked to 3.0 GHz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyper Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 Zalman Cooler is the best one out there. Im planning of buying one next month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ironicall Posted April 15, 2008 Share Posted April 15, 2008 I've got the Q6600 GO stepping SLACR. With my Asus P5K board I have managed to get mine to 3.6 GHz with an Arctic Freezer Pro. If its a GO stepping model then yeah I think 3.6 is doable. I have my Vcore at 1.43 and it runs at 38c Tcase and about 44/45c on the hottest core (Tjunction). At load (Prime95) the hottest core gets to about 65/70c but I also have a Antec 900 case with 5 fans. Even at 3 GHz you will see an amazing performance boost and you shouldn't have to raise your vcore much if any depending on what your stepping is. I encoded I Am Legend for my PSP and it only took ten minutes so if you do alot of video encoding you will be very surprised at you performance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baudouin Posted April 15, 2008 Share Posted April 15, 2008 My Q6600 is overclocked @ 3.27 GHz with watercooling. Those are the figures I used in the BIOS : CPU Clock Rate : 9x (cannot be higher) CPU Host Frequency (MHz) : 365 PCI Express Frequency (MHz) : 100 System Memory Multiplier (SPD) : 2.50 Memory Frequency (MHz) 800 : 913 Normal Overvoltage for all : DDR2, PCI-E, MCH, FSB; CPU Voltage and Normal CPU Vcore : 1.3000V Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nano2nd Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 I'm getting a better Geekbench score but with a lower clockspeed - wierd. Maybe down to memory timings? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Xeon Quad Man Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 If it's a G0 stepping then probally around 3.6Ghz easily on a good air cooler such as a Ultra 120, Tuniq Tower, etc. My buddy has a old B3 stepping and he can only hit 3.2Ghz stable and that is pretty much the limit. The Xeon X3210 I have is essentially the Xeon version of the never released Q6400, and the G0 steppings are known to hit 3.8Ghz. I have seen G0 Q6600s as high as 3.8Ghz on air with a IFX-14 cooler (a beastly air cooler...it's huge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sg Posted May 3, 2008 Share Posted May 3, 2008 my q6600 G0 SLACR in a P5K Premium will only do 3.3ghz stable. at 3.4ghz it will boot but apps will segfault/crash or even run slower during bench tests. CPUTest will also fail pretty fast at 3.4Ghz. I've brought my vcore all the way up to 1.4 and it wont make any difference, i know the board is good because i can run it at over 450+ fsb if i use a lower multiplier for 3.2ghz. at 3.2 my temps are at 36-39C, under full load (all cores) each go up to 65-69C after hours of CPUTest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KellyKelly Posted May 4, 2008 Share Posted May 4, 2008 looking forward to this little thing. But aren't 45nm better? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tazevedo317 Posted May 4, 2008 Author Share Posted May 4, 2008 45nm runs cooler but the q9300(45nm) doesnt OC as well as the Q6600 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KellyKelly Posted May 4, 2008 Share Posted May 4, 2008 Yeah I think so too. Maybe due to the high 1333MHZ Bus. Hey Hac, how do you make your "About This Mac" Window transparent? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tazevedo317 Posted May 4, 2008 Author Share Posted May 4, 2008 look for the NS Panel thread on the forum. it shows all of those mods. and its not transparent. its called HUD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KellyKelly Posted May 4, 2008 Share Posted May 4, 2008 THX ^^ Can you tell me how to change the letter to grey? Thx so muchie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tazevedo317 Posted May 4, 2008 Author Share Posted May 4, 2008 what letters? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted May 4, 2008 Share Posted May 4, 2008 The grey letters come as part of the HUD mod I'm pretty sure (HacOSXUser, he means the grey letters on the about this mac dialog) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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