Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General Info

[fat jez]

OK, we're at 3.24GHz now (9x360, I think), temps haven't changes, Vcore is the same and Prime95 hasn't crashed yet.

Cheers,
Stephen

[Clunk]

Well, mine runs at around 70c+ at stock everything under load with the stock cooler, out of the case.

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[funnelhead]

clunk mate, you've got your keyboard upside-down again, stop farking around!

[fat jez]

OK, left her stress testing over night @ 3.24GHz (9x360), still stock volts

Load temps are:
Core0: 63°C
Core1: 63°C
Core2: 58°C
Core3: 58°C

She's getting a bit warm, which makes me slightly nervous! Maybe going for a PA120.3 radiator isn't such a bad idea... I'm pretty sure the block is on OK now though, as the stock load temps were around the high 40's°C, just touching 50°C on one of the cores. Is it normal to have a 5°C discrepancy between 1 pair of cores and the other though?

Cheers,
Stephen

[Phonoflux]

Q6600 B3 steping OC results
Cooler: Zalman 9700NT cooler
Settings: 9x333=3ghz, Auto vcore.

Load temps while running 4x Prime95 Blend 600mb/ea tests 77-82c over the 4 cores.

Conclusion: Fail. *returns to his E6600*

Will either be a case of running it stock or minor OC at which temps peak at around 70c; or watercooling. And if the option was watercooling i'd be looking at that Kandalf LCS case as my current case only has 1x 120mm intake, and here in NZ the WC bits alone would cost nearly the same as that bloody Kandalf LCS case.

For what I do (mainly games) I think i'd prefer two faster cores than 4 slower ones, yeah?

[Clunk]

OK, left her stress testing over night @ 3.24GHz (9x360), still stock volts

Load temps are:
Core0: 63°C
Core1: 63°C
Core2: 58°C
Core3: 58°C

She's getting a bit warm, which makes me slightly nervous! Maybe going for a PA120.3 radiator isn't such a bad idea... I'm pretty sure the block is on OK now though, as the stock load temps were around the high 40's°C, just touching 50°C on one of the cores. Is it normal to have a 5°C discrepancy between 1 pair of cores and the other though?

Cheers,
Stephen

If the CPU is the only thing in the loop, and you havent got the volts too high, then the PA120.2 should be fine, even with yate loon fans.

[Clunk]

Q6600 B3 steping OC results
Cooler: Zalman 9700NT cooler
Settings: 9x333=3ghz, Auto vcore.

Load temps while running 4x Prime95 Blend 600mb/ea tests 77-82c over the 4 cores.

Conclusion: Fail. *returns to his E6600*

Will either be a case of running it stock or minor OC at which temps peak at around 70c; or watercooling. And if the option was watercooling i'd be looking at that Kandalf LCS case as my current case only has 1x 120mm intake, and here in NZ the WC bits alone would cost nearly the same as that bloody Kandalf LCS case.

For what I do (mainly games) I think i'd prefer two faster cores than 4 slower ones, yeah?

Have a read back for ways of reducing your temps.

Post your bios settings as well, might be able to help you.

[fat jez]

If the CPU is the only thing in the loop, and you havent got the volts too high, then the PA120.2 should be fine, even with yate loon fans.

Volts are stock and I am still thinking about watercooling my Radeon HD 2900XT at some point. I'm planning on getting a new case, since an Antec Sonata is just too small, so I might as well get mount points done for a PA120.3 radiator to allow for future expansion.

She ran stable overnight, so I've put her back to folding, which doesn't raise the temps anything like as much!

Cheers,
Stephen

[daza]

Got back from work today and had left prime95 running for 12~hrs came back and the test was still going but mouse/keyboard was'nt responding so is that stable or not????

Running just the cpu test now so should see tomorrow morning whats going on.

[SadikP]

My set up:

Board: Asus P5K Deluxe
CPU: Q6600 (B3) @ 3.2 (lapped)
Cooler:Thermalright 120 Ultra eXtreme (lapped) with S-Flex 120, 1600RPM.
Case: Silverstone TJ-09

CoreTemp temperatures
Idle:
Core 0: 45c
Core 1: 45c
Core 2: 38c
Core 3: 39c

Load; (using Prime95)
Core 0: 55c
Core 1: 56c
Core 2: 49c
Core 3: 50c

[Clunk]

Got back from work today and had left prime95 running for 12~hrs came back and the test was still going but mouse/keyboard was'nt responding so is that stable or not????

Running just the cpu test now so should see tomorrow morning whats going on.

Sounds like it crashed mate, you need to try again

My set up:

Board: Asus P5K Deluxe
CPU: Q6600 (B3) @ 3.2 (lapped)
Cooler:Thermaltake 120 Ultra eXtreme (lapped) with S-Flex 120, 1600RPM.
Case: Silverstone TJ-09

CoreTemp temperatures
Idle:
Core 0: 45c
Core 1: 45c
Core 2: 38c
Core 3: 39c

Load; (using Prime95)
Core 0: 55c
Core 1: 56c
Core 2: 49c
Core 3: 50c

I've added you to the first post, thanks

[daza]

Sounds like it crashed mate, you need to try again

I hate you,

Just bumped the mem and v-core voltages up abit so fingers crossed this should be it.

[SadikP]

Now I'm gona try for a 3.4

[Clunk]

I hate you,

Just bumped the mem and v-core voltages up abit so fingers crossed this should be it.

Did you have a fan on the RAM? might just be the daytime temps catching up with it?

[s-p]

My set up:

Board: Asus P5K Deluxe
CPU: Q6600 (B3) @ 3.2 (lapped)
Cooler:Thermalright 120 Ultra eXtreme (lapped) with S-Flex 120, 1600RPM.
Case: Silverstone TJ-09

CoreTemp temperatures
Idle:
Core 0: 45c
Core 1: 45c
Core 2: 38c
Core 3: 39c

Load; (using Prime95)
Core 0: 55c
Core 1: 56c
Core 2: 49c
Core 3: 50c

Very nice temperatures! What cooling have you got in the case if you don't mind me asking?

[daza]

yep got a 60mm delta on it that I salvaged from an old heatsink got a ocz memory cooler coming soon to replace it.