Q6600 owners... what is your VID?

surfsk8snow.jah · Aug 8, 2007

wow, sweet deal. I'm pretty sure I'm gonna go for this when I get my new Q6600 rig. And it's just adding a piece of wire insulation "that got caught in there, dang how the heck!?", which is untraceable... w00t.
Plus, either way, it's not decreasing stability, so there's only positives in this scenario! I'm dissown yisso.

Random Murderer · Aug 8, 2007

surfsk8snow.jah said:
And it's just adding a piece of wire insulation

no, it's a conductive ink you actually write on to the chip.

surfsk8snow.jah · Aug 9, 2007

Namslas90 said:
don't forget the "slipcover" pin mode (cover pin A6 with a piece of insulation from 28-30 gage wire, and widen socket hole w/paper clip). Q6600 will now start up at 3.3Ghz with no adjustments.

Random Murderer got a B3 and pin modded it, NP runs like a champ.

What was Namslas talking about then? Different mod?

Ravenas · Aug 9, 2007

I've been trying to OC my q6600 past 2.86 GHz on a 680i mobo. Hasn't worked thus far, pm me if any of you have had better results.

Random Murderer · Aug 9, 2007

surfsk8snow.jah said:
What was Namslas talking about then? Different mod?

namslas doesn't have a fucking clue what he's talking about, lol.

EDIT:

Ravenas said:
I've been trying to OC my q6600 past 2.86 GHz on a 680i mobo. Hasn't worked thus far, pm me if any of you have had better results.

*cough*pin mod...*cough*

kenjin · Aug 9, 2007

i just bought a new evga board and going to RMA my Foxconn 680I board

this is my new OC result with the Evga A1 version of 680I board

Running everest stabllity test for the past 30mins stable so far.... but is HOT!!!! up to 70C on air with full load now!!!!! im at 1.5Vcore 1.4 FSB Voltage 1.4 NB voltage..

im very impress with this chip and motherboard i got here awesome result!!! all my frustration is gone from that cheap ass foxconn board

surfsk8snow.jah · Aug 9, 2007

Wow... 3.73GHz! Nice job dude, I might be PMing you when I get the same board for your procedure. What's the rest of your setup: Memory, CPU-cooler, etc?

kenjin · Aug 10, 2007

check my system spec for my setup

hat · Aug 10, 2007

70C is too much, you want to stay under 60. Try 3.5GHz and back off the volts.

kenjin · Aug 11, 2007

running at 3.4ghz at 1.4vcore 1.4nb 1.4fsb idle at 37-43 load at 50-55c STABLE!!!

memory set at 4-4-3-6 1T 4 GB 4 Sticks!!!

graysky · Aug 11, 2007

Just updated the first post of the thread with the data collected... I counted 113 replies so far.

Tatty_Two · Aug 11, 2007

What would be really handy (from my perspective) is if some of the G0 guys could post their batch numbers as well as their vid's, that way we could get a handle on the ones most likely to overclock the best.....well I sure would appreciate it anyways :toast:

graysky · Aug 12, 2007

Updated the first post of the thread with the data collected (123 replies now) and added some histograms and basic statics to help visualize the data set.

Wile E · Aug 12, 2007

Very nice on the histograms. Good thread as well. Keep up the good work. :toast:

Tatty_Two · Aug 12, 2007

It strikes me that even with the G0 stepping, unless you are really lucky and get an extrememly low Vid they will overclock well but there is also a tremendous amount of heat there, air cooling I think is not going to allow big overclocks 24/7.......that sound about right?

Wile E · Aug 12, 2007

Tatty_One said:
It strikes me that even with the G0 stepping, unless you are really lucky and get an extrememly low Vid they will overclock well but there is also a tremendous amount of heat there, air cooling I think is not going to allow big overclocks 24/7.......that sound about right?

Seems that way to me, on the heat issue. But honestly, it's to be expected with 2 extra cores. Same thing happened with the single to dual transition.

Mussels · Aug 12, 2007

Q6600, G0
1.2375V is reported in coretemp.

Batch is: L725A903

atm i'm at stock, 2.4GHz.... but at 1.150V

not finished yet, its going looooow. ~40C load at these volts, itsa good!

Tatty_Two · Aug 12, 2007

Mussels said:
Q6600, G0
1.2375V is reported in coretemp.

Batch is: L725A903

atm i'm at stock, 2.4GHz.... but at 1.150V not finished yet, its going looooow. ~40C load at these volts, itsa good!

Nice, I am just about to bid on an E6850 on flea bay, at the moment it's about 40% below retail price with 3 minutes to go!

Edit: Got it!......£125, cheapest I can find in the UK is around £168.....that will do me nicely!......E6600 anybody?

surfsk8snow.jah · Aug 12, 2007

Tatty_One said:
Nice, I am just about to bid on an E6850 on flea bay, at the moment it's about 40% below retail price with 3 minutes to go!

Edit: Got it!......£125, cheapest I can find in the UK is around £168.....that will do me nicely!......E6600 anybody?

So Tatty, why'd you decide on the E6850 over the Q6600, esp after that whole retardedness from Tuk lol (glad that fool got banned btw, was so ridiculous)? I'm just curious because I'm on the edge too, about to get a new proc. I was looking at the Q6600, and wantin to OC it w/ a Ultra120Xtreme.

btw, nice job on that purchase. good find!

Mussels · Aug 13, 2007

Q6600's dont OC on his mobo

that'd be why

Same mobo here and my Q66 G0 cant pass 3.1GHz, theres an FSB wall (~350) with duals, its around 450. Quite the difference.

Since my G0 is so awesome, i'm just going to a P35 chipset and selling this board with my old E6600.

(My Q66 is currently running 2400MHz (stock) at 1.035V. F*ck yeah!)

trt740 · Aug 13, 2007

Ravenas said:
I've been trying to OC my q6600 past 2.86 GHz on a 680i mobo. Hasn't worked thus far, pm me if any of you have had better results.

Yours won't I answered this question bro your version will not go past a 1333 fsb if that. It was one of the original designs from Nivida and will not overclock a quad very well, some companies Asus, Evga have offered to exchange them. The newer 680I boards are designed specifically with a newer beefed up phase power system that will over clock a quad. In fact the newer 680i boards will overclock a quad just about aswell as the P35. Mine will do a 500+fsb with a G0 stepping chip.You would be better off selling your quad and buying a e6850 or keepnig you quad and buying a new motherboard. The SE version of the 680I are designed to overclock the Dual cores not the Quads and are rebadged original revisions and not the ones you want.

Tatty_Two · Aug 13, 2007

surfsk8snow.jah said:
So Tatty, why'd you decide on the E6850 over the Q6600, esp after that whole retardedness from Tuk lol (glad that fool got banned btw, was so ridiculous)? I'm just curious because I'm on the edge too, about to get a new proc. I was looking at the Q6600, and wantin to OC it w/ a Ultra120Xtreme.

btw, nice job on that purchase. good find!

I went for the 6850 as an interim solution, at the end of the day I probably would not have got it over the Q6600 with G0 stepping had I not got it so cheap, damn thsi 6850 cost me less than a retail 6600, I will probably get near to the price I paid for the 6850 just in flea baying the 6600.
I will then probably ask the wife for a Q6600 and Vista Home Premium for a Christmas pressie (part exchanging the 6850 of course). My purchase of this chip is not suggesting I think it's any better than the Q6600 therefore, just the better option for me currently.

Tatty_Two · Aug 13, 2007

Mussels said:
Q6600's dont OC on his mobo that'd be why

Same mobo here and my Q66 G0 cant pass 3.1GHz, theres an FSB wall (~350) with duals, its around 450. Quite the difference.

Since my G0 is so awesome, i'm just going to a P35 chipset and selling this board with my old E6600.

(My Q66 is currently running 2400MHz (stock) at 1.035V. F*ck yeah!)

Now thats strange, have you checked out the mobo's forum at Anus? There are a couple of guys there pushing out 3.7Gig+ if you beleive them.....I will see if I can dig it out when i get home, they too had some issues I think, cant remember what they did to sort and the posts were quite a while ago now so probably not G0 stepping chips.

Mussels · Aug 14, 2007

G0 steppings handle it differently tatty, with an E4300 or an E6600 i can run 425 FSB on every CPU, with my quad G0 i have trouble passing 300.

Its got a 1/10 chance of booting and being stable, but after a reboot it wont come on again (hard drive LED is lockd on, until i clear CMOS)

trt740 · Aug 14, 2007

Mussels said:
G0 steppings handle it differently tatty, with an E4300 or an E6600 i can run 425 FSB on every CPU, with my quad G0 i have trouble passing 300.

Its got a 1/10 chance of booting and being stable, but after a reboot it wont come on again (hard drive LED is lockd on, until i clear CMOS)

Thats power related not stepping related it because a quad takes alot more power and the first revision of the 650/680I board didn't have the right power design to oc quads correctly.

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