Remembering The Mighty Core 2 Duo / Quad (post your best overclock)

[storm-chaser]

Here is an improvement to the QX6850 (underclock/overclock), but it didn't last very long if you know what I mean

 

[DR4G00N]

Here's my best E8400, done on chilled water. Same chip did 661 FSB on my P5E3 Deluxe.

Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3966.21 MHz - CPU-Z VALIDATOR

[417ghz] Validated Dump by DR4G00N (2019-12-21 22:46:45) - MB: Asus P5E3 Premium - RAM: 4096 MB

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[storm-chaser]

EDIT: Im going through my old CPUz archives and found this one:

 

[PHaS3]

I do believe this was my best OC on my old Wolfdale core Core2Duo E8400. Was quite the beast... until Battlefield 3 multiplayer rendered it useless. Pun intended.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Q9550S

 

[storm-chaser]

Here's my best E8400, done on chilled water. Same chip did 661 FSB on my P5E3 Deluxe.

Im guessing with a setup like this running your ram at CL 7 @ 1866MHz would net you a pretty good sub 50 ns latency result?

 

[jaggerwild]

E1400@3401=70+ percent OC. not sure why my CPU-Z screens are gone................ON Chilled water, I think chicago Winter.

 

[storm-chaser]

I think this chip can go higher but this is the best result I could find in digging through all my old OC screenshots.

Q9550S

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My old Q9550, which had plenty more potential, not sure why I left so much meat on the bone.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

My old Q9550, which had plenty more potential, not sure why I left so much meat on the bone.

According to my photobucket -- I had multiple attempts at hitting 4Ghz. I actually have a CPU-Z screenshot of me hitting 4Ghz, At first i thought it might of been a random google image search that i had downloaded but it is indeed mine and i know this because I think recognise the small part of wallpaper thats showing through.

Ive got a 4Ghz V1 and 4ghz V2 picture - One shown here is V2. Photobucket has eaten the V1 picture so i cant put it up but this V2 is unblurred. I did have multiple attempts at trying to hit 4ghz but i dont think i could ever get it stable which lead me to questioning the CPU stepping as some steppings did OC better than others.

My CPU cooler would have been an OCZ Vendetta 2

 

[storm-chaser]

Ive got a 4Ghz V1 and 4ghz V2 picture - One shown here is V2. Photobucket has eaten the V1 picture so i cant put it up but this V2 is unblurred. I did have multiple attempts at trying to hit 4ghz but i dont think i could ever get it stable which lead me to questioning the CPU stepping as some steppings did OC better than others.

Yeah, I'm remembering a little more about this OC now. It was done with an MSI P43-C51 board (ddr3) and It's possible I stopped a little early due to high thermals. I think this was a 24/7, conservative 500MHz overclock with a hyper 212. Compared with the Q9650 the 9550 appears to be a complete dud.

OT but you might look into IMGBB for your online photo hosting needs. Thats what I use exclusively now, after getting fed up with photobucket.

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not the best it ever did but all the pics i have alas, this was cruisin speed , high fsb.

i got this tho.

Wasn't the Q6600 a game changer for the overclocking community? I mean, isn't that really the chip that started the multi core craze that we've embarked on for past decade? Im seeming to remember it was a significant chip some why but can't quite pin down what I'm trying to say here.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Yeah, I'm remembering a little more about this OC now. It was done with an MSI P43-C51 board (ddr3) and It's possible I stopped a little early due to high thermals. I think this was a 24/7, conservative 500MHz overclock with a hyper 212. Compared with the Q9650 the 9550 appears to be a complete dud.

Mine would have been done on a Asus P5Q Pro. Pretty damn good board at the time. Never did like the yellow memory slots though.

 

[80-watt Hamster]

Stumbling upon this thread inspired me to see what could be (quickly) done with my E5450 on a P5QSE PLUS. Got to desktop at 3.6 with decent temps, but not stress stable. Anything higher blue-screens. Haven't so far found settings that will produce a higher CPU clock without pushing the RAM past DDR2-800.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Stumbling upon this thread inspired me to see what could be (quickly) done with my E5450 on a P5QSE PLUS. Got to desktop at 3.6 with decent temps, but not stress stable. Anything higher blue-screens. Haven't so far found settings that will produce a higher CPU clock without pushing the RAM past DDR2-800.

big part of the problem is the budget board. Some heatsinks on the VRMs will help though but probably not worth the effort

 

[80-watt Hamster]

big part of the problem is the budget board. Some heatsinks on the VRMs will help though but probably not worth the effort

Well, it seems there's some headroom left. Swapped out the RAM and dropped in better cooling, and got to 3744 @ 1.16V with temps around 50C. I'll post a screenshot once I hit a wall.

 

[8BitZ80]

Wasn't the Q6600 a game changer for the overclocking community? I mean, isn't that really the chip that started the multi core craze that we've embarked on for past decade? Im seeming to remember it was a significant chip some why but can't quite pin down what I'm trying to say here.

The Q6600 cost US$530 and basically performed the same the Core 2 Extreme QX6700 which was a US$1000 chip, but then you could also do an easy +800MHz overclock on top of that. That made them fly off the shelves. And yeah I think it was one of the first quad cores on the market so that would've been an absolute steal back in 2007.

 

[storm-chaser]

Anyone know what model is the most rare core 2 processor in existence? I always hunt down the more obscure chips whenever researching a new platform. Then, luck permitting try to find them still for sale on ebay.

 

[agent_x007]

I think the most rare is Core 2 Extreme QX9775.
You can go rarer, if you want ES stuff though.

 

[antuk15]

Mine...... Doesn't seem that impressive at first.

But look at the FSB speed and then what chipset it was achieved on

 

[Hyderz]

I had a Core 2 Duo E6320 (1.86ghz base and overclocked to 3ghz)
Paired with 4gb of ram with (8800GT 512mb later upgraded to HD5770 1GB)
The 5770 was held back by the processor even at 3ghz, it scored around 7k in 3dmark and then when i paired with i5 2500k the score was 12k

Had this system from 2009 to 2012, Games played around that time are Crysis 2, Alien vs Predator, Company of Heroes, Half Life Episode 2.

 

[storm-chaser]

Forgot about my T61 before the upgrade to the X9000 CPU. This (T9300) is a locked chip but you can exploit one potential route to improve your base clocks. Once again, throttlestop to the rescue, this time in the options menu you can hit dual IDA mode, which gives you a slight overclock w/ a 13.5 multi.

 

[Deleted member 205776]

Mine...... Doesn't seem that impressive at first.

But look at the FSB speed and then what chipset it was achieved on

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Nice FC2 trainer you got there

 

[8BitZ80]

Anyone know what model is the most rare core 2 processor in existence? I always hunt down the more obscure chips whenever researching a new platform. Then, luck permitting try to find them still for sale on ebay.

Not that I know of, unless you're willing to pay silly money for a Core 2 Extreme. I take a bit more interest in the historically significant ones like the E6300, being the first Core 2 Duo on the market. It helps that nobody else gives a damn about them and they're super cheap.

If you can find a computer recycling center, you can sometimes pay for old chips in bulk that are being sold for gold recovery. LGA chips are often still in working order because their pins aren't bent (because they obviously don't have any) like the AMD ones usually are.

 

[Dinnercore]

Anyone know what model is the most rare core 2 processor in existence? I always hunt down the more obscure chips whenever researching a new platform. Then, luck permitting try to find them still for sale on ebay.

I think the E8700 is up there in terms of rarity. It was scrapped and never really launched publicly, but some seem to have gotten out back in the day. It's the 775 variant of the X5270. I only got some of the Xeons. Finding an E8700 would be a holy grail for me.

 

[agent_x007]

come on guys is this all we can do?

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[freeagent]

It was a hot day that day..

Box fan beside the pc kinda day

Oh yeah I forgot about those crappy Dominators.. they only did like 1100mhz. All of my G.Skills went faster and tighter.