Can't overclock Q6600!

[Weer]

Originally Posted by newtekie1

I doubt the board damaged it, if anything the 1.9v damaged it more. Yeah 90°C is technically safe, but I've seen processors get unstable at those temps only because of the temps.

As for a good quad under $150, well good luck. I got lucky and picked up my Xeon X3220 off ebay for $150 exactly. Saddly my crappy 650i can only managed 3.0GHz on it.

It's a bit more complicated. The CPU got damaged because of the crappiness of the board, not because of the board directly. The over-voltage was momentary and thus did not damage the chip. The notion that a CPU can't handle 1.9v is ridiculous. It simply can't handle maximum load on it. If 1.9v damages a CPU, then I guess LN2 does not actually work, since the chip is already dead.

Thanks but even 150$ is too steep. I'll just get a bunch of E5300's and overclock them to 4.5Ghz on mATX 630i boards.

[JC316]

You sir are stupid.... Running 1.9V may be fine on Ln2, but you are AIR cooling slight difference there. 90*C?!? That made me nervous on my 3870x2 much less a Q6600.

4.0GHZ is damn near impossible for a Q6600. I had a good clocker back in the day with water cooling and all I could get was 3.8GHZ.

[InTeL-iNsIdE]

Originally Posted by Weer

It's a bit more complicated. The CPU got damaged because of the crappiness of the board, not because of the board directly. The over-voltage was momentary and thus did not damage the chip. The notion that a CPU can't handle 1.9v is ridiculous. It simply can't handle maximum load on it. If 1.9v damages a CPU, then I guess LN2 does not actually work, since the chip is already dead.

Thanks but even 150$ is too steep. I'll just get a bunch of E5300's and overclock them to 4.5Ghz on mATX 630i boards.

LOL love to see these E5300's @ 4.5Ghz on an matx board

Your chip performs exactly how a q6600 G0 should, what more do you want out of it ??

You go ahead and pump 1.9v into it, cause apparently if LN2 can handle those voltages then so should you on air cooling.

Your just sounding like a n00b now, comparing your high end air cooling to extreme LN2 cooling, and wondering where your going wrong!

Have a look around and you will find some of the best overclockers and tweakers on the web here on TPU telling you 3.7 on a Q6600 is a good stable oc for that chip and 1.9vcore is too high, but hey, you know best. Good luck on frying that chip and board putting silly votages through it like you are doing

[Jstn7477]

Originally Posted by Weer

It's a bit more complicated. The CPU got damaged because of the crappiness of the board, not because of the board directly. The over-voltage was momentary and thus did not damage the chip. The notion that a CPU can't handle 1.9v is ridiculous. It simply can't handle maximum load on it. If 1.9v damages a CPU, then I guess LN2 does not actually work, since the chip is already dead.

Thanks but even 150$ is too steep. I'll just get a bunch of E5300's and overclock them to 4.5Ghz on mATX 630i boards.

LN2 supercools a semiconductor so that there is much less resistance in the conductors inside the chip versus normal temperatures. When a wire heats up, it develops more resistance and becomes less conductive, so that means signals get blocked and your chip can't process information correctly. There are millions, if not billions of conductors inside your processor that can be just a few nanometers long. You don't seem to understand how delicate computer chips are. Just a small amount of static electricity can render them completely useless.

"The CPU got damaged because of the crappiness of the board, not because of the board directly." So, what are you trying to argue here? There isn't a such thing as "crappiness" that magically kills computer components. If there was, we probably wouldn't be talking right now.