Hardware Overclocking Intel's Core 2 Quad Q6600

As if BT wasn't my home page in FF.

So I think I'll wait a couple of weeks and take the Q6600 route then. Maybe some more RAM and replace those IDE HDDs with SATA2s...

 

lol, wise man

Be sure to try get a Q6600 with the G0 stepping
Im waiting another week or two before I get mine, hoping that the earlyer steppings will have been shipped and paved the way for the better G0's

 

I ordered my q6600 back on the 22nd. Also ordered some ram and a cooler. got the cooler and the ram. but the cpu according to the website has not shipped. When I call in, im told it has been shipped but from a wherehouse that does not intergrate with the webpage so I cant see that it shipped and I cant see a tracking number. So I have no idea when its going to be here. all i can say is that they had better be telling the truth when they say its shipped....

 

DDR3

I'm interested to see how well ddr3 turns out once the Micron Z9 modules hit the market

 

Is there anyway to ensure that you get a Q6600 with G0 stepping?

 

Call your dealer and ask for it.
Or better e-mail them so you have something you can show them later if they didn't deliver a G0.

 

Try this link for the G0 stepping - but you pay a small premium fro not trying the G0 stepping lottery
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-161-IN&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=

 

Argh... I was just about to order an E6850 when I read this. Now I don't know :/

quad core and over clocking or dual core and stock... decisions, decisions Advice pls?

 

CPU-Z Validator Database

I was using the abit IP35-E on Air

 

Well Seeing as the Q6600 appears to be very clockable, achieving speeds greater than that of the dua core at stock, then id say go for Quad
Prime example above from THRASHER2

Very nice!!
I would be interested to know what voltages you used

 

And temps.

 

Me too

I'm pretty sure I'll be going quad core now. Does XP Pro support 4 cores or only two? Don't particularly like Vista yet (seemed a bit lethargic, but that may be my current hardware's fault slightly) and would prefer to keep XP as my main OS until Crysis comes out at least.

 

you can run four cores under XP just fine - I did for around six months before I plucked up the courage to move to Vista.

 

I've made my choice then.

Four cores here I come

 

I will get the Info later tonight (When its cooler)

 

XP pro limits you to 2 physical proccesors - I think most of the vista packages do too

So that means you can have 16 cores on XP when they get octo cores out

 

Yeah, i had the e6850 on my shopping list till i read this!

 

I know I'll be going for a quad core (probably Q6600) DDR3 setup just as soon as motherboards with PCI-Express 2.0 come out... oh when will the wait end. Otherwise with my luck by the time I fancy upgrading my graphics card again my motherboard will be incompatible.

 

Expect to see boards and devices that are PCI-E 2.0 released mainstream in 2008, so if you can wait 6months

 

Is there an ETA on this?