The Official OC (OverClocking) Thread!

Just changed my signiture, had to see what it looked like sorry! What do you lot think of my parts line up then.....?

Anyone here heard much about clocking the Q6600? Just noticed the price has dropped alot..... Hmmmmm? Anyone want a E6600!?

 

Put it this way, if somebody gave me an E6600 for free, I wouldn't argue.

Actually, that's a stupid thing to say, I'd wonder what they'd done to it, but you know what I mean.
Quad cores really don't do it for me, because I can't envisage me ever using their power. Contrary to what intel believe (Isn't that a controversial beginning to a sentence!) We need faster cores, not more of them. I'm guessing since they're unable to produce faster cores, they've just decided to make more.

 

If people like us can overclock them to speeds of 3GHz +, then they should ship them with better coolers and factory overclock them.

They should make some deal with zalman or some other cooling company.

 

Nope, because they need to be able to fleece money out of people for the higher end CPUs!

 

oh well, I just got a zalman 9500 for $40(after shipping) and a E6300 for $120 (after shipping)

so i plan to oc the hell out of it.

 

OK, best of luck!
(Although assuming you've got half decent memory, power supply and motherboard, alogn with some Arctic silver, it'll be a piece of cake!)

 

i am still waiting on that, all I have now is my test PSU (deer) and a test motherboard (gigabyte)

but I do have the artic silver!

 

Deer?

 

So has anyone had good results with overclocking a quad core?

 

As far as I know the going rate for overclocking a Q6600 on air is around 3.0-3.2Ghz, nowhere near as good as a Dual.

 

What about with a watercooling set up like mine? Do you think I might get 3.6+

 

Possibly, I'm not sure.

 

Might have to get one and find out!

 

tinytom,
Very nice collection of components you have there! You've done a good job in your selections! Good luck with all of it and may your Clocks Runneth Over!

Clock On,
theone :>}

 

I'll stick with my E6600, thank you. about the highest stable OC achievable with a Q6600 even on water is 3.4ghz. no thanks.

 

Lol there we go then, I'm definitely not getting one!

 

Is 3.4ghz X4 not quick enough for you guys then!?
I have taken alot of time getting those parts together, and sold lots of other ones on the way when changing my mind, thank lord for the wonder of ebay!

 

sammorris,

I think it's going to take some time for software to better utilize all the power inherent in the Quad cores. Given time, I think they will offer quite a lot in the future, especially in games!

Clock On,
theone :>}

 

Im not a PC gamer, never have been. Ive got my 360 for that. Be nice to see what I could get out of a Q6600 tho?

 

Hi guys, quick question: is it possible to overclock667MHz memory to 800MHz or is that just too much, I only overclock CPUs, so i dont know much about ram, the RAM in question is Corsair CM2X1024-5400C4 2x1GB DDR2 Xtreme Perf.


thanks!