Hello All. My Asus Striker Extreme AND Q9650 have just died !!! I will get another Stiker extreme (need SLi and DDR2) from ebay and I'm going to try to get Itel to swap the CPU (supplier not interested, even only 2 months old) I cant afford a new Q9650 if intel wont swap, so basically would the Q6600 actually PERFORM as well as the Q9650 did when overclocked to .. say .. 3.2GHz? Is there a good chance the Stiker Extreme is capable of taking the Q6600 up to at least 3.6GHz + on water cooling? The rig would be water cooled and it runs folding@Home 24/7 on all CPU cores and 2 x 8800GTX's. Thanks
How do you know that they're both dead - did you try both in other computers? CPUs are pretty resilient, so I would guess that whilst your motherboard may be dead the CPU probably isn't. The Q6600 is pretty damn fast when overclocked.
Most Q6600's perform very handsomely, and almost all of them can go up to 3,6GHz, especially on water, and that'll more then match the Q9650's stock performance.
While it is true that an overclocked Q6600 will beat a stock Q9650. Presumbly you will OC the Q9650, and you should be easily able to hit 4G, and so it would easily beat the Q6600.
all the high overclocks mentioned here are very hard to achieve with Striker Extreme, the nVidia 680i motherboard. not sure if 780i has improved on quad core overclocking........
Well spotted sir! I am not at home with Asus nomenclature, so i didn't realise there's a 680i on it. That changes the deal, because very few of the 680i chipsets overclock well with quads. Still, a q6600 (have a look around for the q6700, somehow it's cheaper then the q6600 in Holland) should be able to kick out very acceptable levels of performance for a substantially lower budget then a q9650.
+1 Also, nForce 680i? Eeek! Are you sure it's not just your memory that's dead? 680i has a habit of killing RAM.
lol yeah quads on the 680i take a good understanding of that chipset.. it takes alot of voltage play on the north and southbridge to get it right.. do not use any auto voltages on a 680i- it will end up with you slapping the nuts off the sides of your monitor with that said.. yes you can do 3.6 on a 680i with good cooling- it's just much easier on a intel chipset.. the striker extreme was just a pig with lipstick on- you could have got a reference 680 and done the same thing with it for alot less money.. lemme see if I can dig you up some settings
Bagpuss, if the worst happens and they won't replace the dead CPU, would you consider giving it too me, my friend wants to make piece of art from cpus??!, However, as it's only 2 months old they must be legally obliged to replace
*edit k turn off GPU EX the memory you use for running at 3.6 is pretty important on a 680i.. it's really finicky try these settings CPU multi: 8 FSB: 1780Mhz CPU: 1.325 - 1.475v FSB: 1.3v Vmem: 2.1v SPP: 1.5v MCP: 1.55v SPP<>MCP: 1.4v 1:1 at 4-4-4-10 timings with 2.1v.. this also has to do with the q6600 itself- if you can get a low voltage batch, it helps alot
After taking the Q9650 out of the Striker Extreme, the CPU socket on the Striker Extreme appears to be missing a pin !!!! How, I have no idea. I’ve tried the Q9650 in my other machine - Asus P5N-T Deluxe (790i) with various RAM. After about 8 hours of trying still no luck. All the RAM I have still works fine in the P5N-T Deluxe with my Core 2 E6850. I want my Quad Core back (sob) it makes so much difference in games like GTA IV and Frontlines: Fuel of War. I’ve thought about (and would like) a Biostar TPower I45 Intel P45. But obviously cant run my 8800GTX’s in SLi then, nor can I afford a new graphics card as well. I could afford a second hand Q6600 and a £100-ish mobo perhaps next month. Argghhh! My head hurts! LOL. I was thinking last night if I get stuck with the chip, I was gonna make a £300 keyring. Yeah, I totally agree with the 680i being hard work. I did get to benchmark the Quad on the Striker Extreme at about 3.7GHz on air about a week ago, but was saving the real overclocking and leave it running overclocked for the watercooling. Sob….
if you are just gaming then a e8400 gives similar performace to corei7, the e8400 is a good chip and you can overclock lots it is a good chip
