q6600 OMGness

[teknokid]

Its running under 35 degrees under orthos, and reported vcore is 1.25, thats low!! and a lot of overclocking head room :D
wahhoooo

[wuyanxu]

what cooler are you planning to use?

[teknokid]

i have a standard thermaltake loop, but im upgrading soon, not bad temps eh?

[Jonny2Bad]

I take it u have you have your q6600 then lol

[wuyanxu]

i have a standard thermaltake loop, but im upgrading soon, not bad temps eh?
ah, so it's water cooled :cry: was hoping i'd get that kind of tempreture for air cooling

[teknokid]

possibly, my water isnt that greater loop, came with my case.
anyway, all i can say is im very happy, everything works in vista too, apart from my x-fi, which is kinda a shame :(
ill try overclocking soon though :)

[Jonny2Bad]

Havent microsoft done something with the sound on vista so the cards dont work properly, im sure i read that somewhere, I'm not going to vista yet, i'll wait for crysis and if its really that much better with vista i might consider it then

[teknokid]

sound card now works, you have to get the mobo drivers from nvidia not asus. Sound sounds better on vista, and the drivers make x-fi work in vista.

[Jonny2Bad]

I'm gonna get 1 of those sound cards i think, heard some good things about them!!

[teknokid]

its only really worth it with surround sound.
it works, but its a bit wierd in css, need to work that one out.

[Jonny2Bad]

Yeah i have 5.1 soon to upgrade too 7.1 but will get card 1st

[teknokid]

well worth it then, just avoid vista!!

[Taxation]

Im waiting for tri core matey :wink:

[teknokid]

why not just go quad?

[JDowdall]

cos amd willl get ther act together and in conjunction will use there graphics department 2 get games optimised for 3 core not atm ther is no point in quad core as most are dual core optimised so with 3 core u have 1 core running the os and background tasks and the other 2 playing games oh and it will be cheaper and evry1 luvs amd!

[wuyanxu]

teck, what batch number is your q6600? (the number on the box, begin with L7_____)
and is yours G0?

[Wobble]

What sort of overclock are you getting teknokid,i can post into windows at 3.8, however far from stable and it needs to many volts to be stable at 3.6, so happy sat at 3.4... whats 200mhzin real world difference anyway 8)

[djgandy]

Im waiting for tri core matey :wink:

Ha. Big mistake. This is a way to recycle faulty quads. Not to say it's a bad idea, it just shows how weak AMD is at the moment.

AMD are done. I really wouldn't bother with them for performance for at least 2 years. If we're talking budget systems then by all means use them. Cheap as chips. That's one reason why they are losing 600m a quarter.

[Taxation]

Thing that i do is instead of going ultra top end, i support the losers, its for the greater good

[Nox]

Thing that i do is instead of going ultra top end, i support the losers, its for the greater good

I never thought i'd say this, but Tax has a point :D

Nox

[teknokid]

lol, and you get a bargain :)

[Jonny2Bad]

Lol just fitted a q6600 in my mates pc in a asus p5n-e sli £70 mobo and the 1st thing i did was whack up the fsb too 1333 straight to 3g per core and it loved it lmao!! Sorry T had to tell you!!!

[teknokid]

lol, i have no doubt it would, just my bloody awful mobo is awful

[Jonny2Bad]

And keeping decent temps on the stock cooler, who needs water lol!!!!

[teknokid]

lol, me, for a killer OC :D

[Jonny2Bad]

Lol you cant o/c nevermind a killer o/c!!! Decided what mobo your getting yet?

[teknokid]

nope, currently in chats with asus over the matter.
Ill let you know on progress

[Jonny2Bad]

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/sho ... p?t=159457 (http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=159457)
That should help you out seems if you go back a bios or so you wont have any probs with o/c on the striker, these chaps have got a q6600 running at over 3.8g on strikers. Research your problems b4 giving up so easily my young friend!!!

[teknokid]

wow, thats incredibly interesting. that would make sense, scan got a fast quad out of it using water, it seems a common thing.
Ill have to try out new volts, and if that doesnt work ill give the water block a shot.
CHEERS!!

[teknokid]

http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/7389/72985707fj6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
OMG THANK YOU

[Jonny2Bad]

So maybe the striker is still the mobo of choice, starting to feel glad i still have mine now lol!!!

[teknokid]

yep, I mmean I by no means was trying hard with that, I put in the settings from that post, put vcore to 1.45 to make sure that wouldn't limit it and hey presto it worked.
only upto 1333 mhz I tried so far, I'm sure ill work out the max when I can water cool the vrm's coz they really must've been toasting.

[teknokid]

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showprodu ... subcat=793 (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-172-IN&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=793)
even cheaper!!!!

[Jonny2Bad]

Yeah they have all gone down in price i think

[teknokid]

boxed ones havent much, thats OEM