Q6600 Owners, What Fan/Heatsink use for Overclock?

Kusimeka · Sep 25, 2007

Hey everyone, as the title sais, what's the best heatsink / cpu fan cooler for the Q6600, preferably not too expensive, i'm looking to overclock to about 3-3.2 ghz

Thanks!

Edit: Oh, and also will a Q6600 overclock fine with a Asus P5k?

theonetruewill · Sep 25, 2007

Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro - Budget
Tuniq Tower - Reasonable
Thermalright Ultra 120 EXtreme -Expenive
Zalman CNPS 9700LED Cu - Expensive

[I.R.A]_FBi · Sep 25, 2007

vanilla version of mobo?

Arctic Cooling Freezer Pro

panchoman · Sep 25, 2007

dont get the p5k, its got bad vdroop and some say its got shitty ocing and others dont, not a good board overall, get the deluxe premium or e or just get a gigabyte, the clock higher.

[I.R.A]_FBi · Sep 25, 2007

heard teh quads kill that board ...

JC316 · Sep 25, 2007

I would get a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3. Any version is good and I would go for the Freezer pro.

panchoman · Sep 25, 2007

theres the scythe infinity, the freezer pro, the ultra 120, the thermaltake max orb, all great coolers. and some zalman ones are good too.

driver66 · Sep 25, 2007

Abit IP-35 period

Mediocre · Sep 25, 2007

Kusimeka said:
Hey everyone, as the title sais, what's the best heatsink / cpu fan cooler for the Q6600, preferably not too expensive, i'm looking to overclock to about 3-3.2 ghz

Thanks!

Edit: Oh, and also will a Q6600 overclock fine with a Asus P5k?

Works great for me...horrible Vdroop though...great for $130 (mine hits 480fsb @ 9x multi = 4.32GHz :eek:

but reallly hot!)

Using a custom Liquid setup now. I have horrible flow rate though, need a better pump

Stuff to note with quads:

They run ALOT hotter than people want you to believe. I've found my new load temp is MUCH higher (52c :cry:

)

Just download a GAME that is multi-threaded (frontlines - Fuel of War - Beta) and run it. The added heat from your PSU and GFX would surprise you...my buddies Q6700 overheated an rebooted (10x333 w/Zalman 9700 & 8800gtx) after 2hrs..

and Pancho :slap:

Richieb0y · Sep 25, 2007

Freezer pro 7 all the way

PaulieG · Sep 25, 2007

On a budget, the AC Freezer 7 pro is the best price-performance, period. Mine handled moderate overclocking on my Q6600 like a champ (>3.4ghz). I've moved to water cooling, so I do have a lapped freezer 7 for sale, if your interested.

Kusimeka · Sep 25, 2007

Thanks alot guys, and thanks for the offer paul but i'm gonna be buying them in a bundle so all is fine

orionbg · Sep 25, 2007

Sorry for the offtopic but a little question.

I had an ASUS P5N-E SLI Mobo nForce 650i SLI and with Core2 E6300 everything woked fine and the CPU worked at 3.15GHz without any problems! Now I have a Core2 Quad Q6600 and it is imposible to push it any further than 1100MHz FSB!!!

E6300 1800MHz FSB and Q6600 1100MHz FSB ?!?!?!?
I hoped fot atleast 1333MHz FSB but no! The system fill freeze in bios even at 1200MHz FSB. I thought that the mobo is not in order and get myself an ASUS P5N32-E SLI nForce 680i SLI. but the same thing!

I'm going to think that the CPU just can't overclock but it is the newer G0 stepping.

700w PSU Fortron Epsilon
Active cooling on the CPU PWM area
and everything that I have thought of.

Ideas?

Kusimeka · Sep 25, 2007

Hmm yeah i'd like to know whats up with that too orion, for me its either the:

P5K-E/WIFI-AP or

gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R

gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R (seems like the same board just minus the C, could you guys help me with the diffrence between this and the C version?)

The gigabyte boards are about £25 ($50) cheaper than the asus P5k-E, i'm going to be overclocking my Q6600, what board would you guys suggest?

Atnevon · Sep 25, 2007

I have heard some good things about the eVGA 680i boards for good OCing on the quads. Mine is to new, so I won't be pushing it it yet (feels miles ahead of my old laptop). They are a little finicky to work with (like american mechanics working on a VW. They can do it, but they hate it).

I run mine with the Freezer 7 right now, and it is great. During my SuperPi tests I have yet to see the cores go above 30c. I have a post about an oddity in my speedfan, but from what people are telling me it is normal.

The freezer 7 won't let you down regardless.

NOTE: Be sure to get some of that Artic Cooler thermal paste remover and take the stock paste off the heatsink. If you want some MX-1 or Artic Silver on there, it it easy as hell. Its 5 bucks but hey, 5 bucks is really nothing. Made me sleep better that night.

edit: if you look at reviews, remember that there are idiots on Newegg, look at more to get a good idea.

PaulieG · Sep 25, 2007

Check out the new DFI p35 Infinity "Blood Iron" board. It clocks like mad, tons of bios options, and is very stable...all for under $150. See a review here:
http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=getarticle&articID=611

driver66 · Sep 25, 2007

Hands down this is the best bang for the buck :toast:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813127030

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Q6600 Owners, What Fan/Heatsink use for Overclock?

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