This is a brag and some pure luck

[Vigoro]

Right then boys and girls, here is a little thing which i did over the summer which i found funny.

Firstly. The Hiper 580w PSU, seen by most as the most unstable power supply on earth and like a ticking time bomb. Well at the time of this test of bragging rights it was 3 years and 3 months old, and still worked fine ;)

Secondly, i had heard the the EVGA 650i Ultra-A was dire at overclocking as the nVidia chipset wasnt very good and was easily beat by intels option being the P35.

Now then, for this little recipe you will need;
1x Q6600
1x EVGA 650i Ultra-A motherboard
1xTicking time bomb Hiper 580w PSU
2x1GB Platinum OCZ PC-6400 DDR2 stuff(you get the idea)
And the most important ingredient 1 pot of luck

Now combine this all together with a £10 fan from the local PC shop and you can have.......










http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/Vigoro/nrly4.jpg

A fast processor, which runs stable on everyday applications!

I do not recommend you copy my stupidity with this experiment and therefore will not be responsible if you try and blow your hardware up.

[Helior]

13 seconds under load and 57 degrees :o

[Vigoro]

That was idle temp as superpi never went above 25% load on one core :p

[sammjj]

I didn't know if that was possible... on this earth anyway :D

[Jonny2Bad]

Evga nvidia chipsets are the only decent quad clockers, btw, they spent a lot of time on the 6 series getting them to work, on the 680i the 1st ones were borked just like the others but they offered every1 that had one a new fixed version, now thats service. if and its a very big if I was to ever go back to a nvidia chipset evga would be they route i took, and those temps are very high, like to see you try a couple of hours of gaming or prime ;)

[Vigoro]

Gaming was fine but prime crashed it, however i never use 100% load on all cores with daily use lol

[Jonny2Bad]

Very high still though isnt it. What cooler you got on it?

[Vigoro]

That was with an ocz vanquisher, which if i remeber correctly is a rebranded AC7 Pro i think

[Saftlad]

Doubt I would risk that sort of voltage 24x7, gotta admire your balls :D

[Jonny2Bad]

The q6600 is actually ok up till 1.55v its at the top of its voltage range, anymore than that is where your cpu will start to hurt ;)

[system7]

Amazing work, Vigoro! :p

stillgame (Who sold me my E6700, which i wanted to try to see how much difference L2 cache really makes) had no luck at all overclocking an E8500 on an Asus 680i due to inability to get CPU clock above 360 MHz. But I read that linked and synched (1:1) memory is the way to go on the non-SLI EVGA 650i Ultra:
http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTMyNSwxLCxoZW50aGlzdWFzdA==

Of course this really says nothing about the puny Hiper 580W power supply, which I fault mainly for its hopeless 30A combined of 12V rail, which is stone-age on a supply that claims 580W. Not because I think it has reliability issues when used with moderate graphics. :lol:

[wuyanxu]

The q6600 is actually ok up till 1.55v its at the top of its voltage range, anymore than that is where your cpu will start to hurt ;)
and you plan use it for how long?? if you are doing that amount of crazy overclocks, might as well do it properly.

overclock like crazy, **** it!

this was done before i got TRUE, so temperature was off the scales.
and as you can see, it's a high VID chip, so voltage are also off the scales: 1.69v at idling.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/wuyanxu/39Ghz_superpi.jpg

no, before you ask, i don't plan to go above 3.8Ghz on my current q6600, because i still want to use my current q6600. that picture one was sold off not long after that screenshot was taken

[Vigoro]

Christ that is a lot of volts :p

here is one i did earlier ;)

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b269/Vigoro/clocked.jpg

[Jonny2Bad]

Lol at Wu crazy stuff lol, great clock though buddy, I like my quad at 3.6 might try and get the 3.8 but it just hates it tbh, wont go stable without hitting the high volts, and seeing as i cant afford to replace it as yet I think i'll be content with 3.6 at lowish volts.

[Vigoro]

What volts is it running on at 3.6?

[wuyanxu]

1.52v for 4Ghz?? must be a golden chip you got there :)

[Jonny2Bad]

What volts is it running on at 3.6?
1.4v actual


1.52v for 4Ghz?? must be a golden chip you got there :)
Telling me buddy! Is it prime stable at those volts though?

[Vigoro]

It was prime stable for the two hours i left it on when i was out last night

[Jonny2Bad]

It was prime stable for the two hours i left it on when i was out last night
What and all 4 cores were still active? None of them came up red flagged in the prime? That is a sweet q6600 for sure if thats the case. Mines got a very low vid and mine wont do that.

[Vigoro]

All still active and was about 66-70 degrees on load, but that was due to me having poor air circulation

[Jonny2Bad]

What a nice chip!!!!! And i'd expect those temps on a true blk at those volts and clock settings, very lucky to have a q6600 that will do that both me and Wu are pretty jealous lol

[teknokid]

wow, Nice going..

Mine needs 1.45v to get 3.6ghz :(