q6600- £350

[Lustral]

My mate has a Q6600 and he has watercooled and overclocked it to 3.6Ghz, shame that he doesnt use the PC for much else apart from surfing the internet and benchmarking.

I could sure use a Q6600 for my video editing.

Lusty

[teknokid]

yeah, i would like one too, my e6600 maxes at 3.4ghz :( i could probs get a quad past that!. crysis will be quad, hope i get one in q3:D

[Taxation]

and here is me with one of the first gen X2 3800's that can only get to 3ghz :roll:
what a shame :wink:

[teknokid]

myns only reasonable volts @ 3ghz. going to get the Tt mozart with the screen and have an MCE pc in there with my 'old' e6600.

[DonJ]

can I get away with fan cooling a q6600

I dont game just cad/cam work

[Coops]

Q6600 can be used with Fan cooling that support Intel Quad series CPU

[djgandy]

Can't wait till these babys drop into the sub £200 bracket. Only a month to wait :lol:

[DonJ]

sub £200 inside a month...........

rather hopeful what...........

dj

[DonJ]

one review(er) says the stock fan is poor.

Is this a viable review only I cant see Intel supplying a poor fan.

If it is true, what fan is recommended other than stock

dj

[Nox]

sub £200 inside a month...........

rather hopeful what...........

dj

might want to have a look at the prices on 22nd July :D

Nox

[Nox]

I would also not class the stock fan as poor. I'd say it is pretty average.

Nox

[Jonny2Bad]

Just read an article on crysis and the makers say that the e6600 is enuf to run it on max settings so i guess quad core is still mainly not essential. I'm still gonna get 1 though lol!!!

[Coops]

The Intel Stock fan provided in Retail box CPU will do the job it was designed to do. Keep the CPU from Overheating and operate within the CPU thermal temperature range. Now for some people this will be fine.......... However some people will find that it runs the CPU hotter than they want it to run or that the Fan is louder than they like.

So in that case they will go out and buy a premium cooler to reduce CPU temperature and work quieter. This does not mean the Intel Cooler is poor its just does not work the way they want it to.

Obviously Intel provide this cooler to cool there product and lets face it they are only going to spend out on what is required and nothing more. They are obviously not going to supply some pure copper beast with 6 heat pipes and aero dynamically engineered fan for maximum cooling and quietness.

So i would say they do an ample job for what they are but if you want to reduce the sound level generated by your CPU system then yes you will need to spend out on a premium cooler to do that.

Personally some people won't bother and some will so check out yourself what you think and if it annoys you then get a better one =)

[teknokid]

ill drop a quad in in nov, afta the sept price cuts have leveled out.

[djgandy]

ill drop a quad in in nov, afta the sept price cuts have leveled out.


umm July 22nd :p
Prices will drop quick. Anyone at novatech will tell you that profit margins on CPU's arent very high. Especially once all the competition starts beating each other.

[teknokid]

theres more price cuts in september...

[djgandy]

Not for the quad cores. It's for duals.

[teknokid]

oh :(
ahh well never mind