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Overclocking Intel's Core 2 Quad Q6600 - TechAmok
Overclocking Intel's Core 2 Quad Q6600 - [hardware] 03:22 PM EDT - Jul,25 2007 - post a comment
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What's clear from our experiences is that the Core 2 Quad Q6600 seems to
be that new "bang for buck" processor that, with a little bit of overclocking,
is going to net you performance that is going to at least match the Core 2
Extreme QX6850, if not surpass it by some margin. I'm sure there will be
some that say "you can overclock the QX6850 as well" - of course you can, but
that is not the point.
One comparison that we've made in the office over the last week or so since
we started really tinkering with our Core 2 Quad Q6600 is to the Athlon XP 2500+
for those of you that remember that CPU. At the time, AMD's flagship
processor was the XP 3200+, which was clocked at 11x200MHz. The XP 2500+ shared
the same multiplier as the 3200+, but used the slower 166MHz front side bus
speed. Getting flagship performance out of the XP 2500+ was as simple as
increasing the front side bus from 166MHz to 200MHz - virtually every processor
did that on stock volts. I think we're going to see something similar with
the Core 2 Quad Q6600 - it shares the same multiplier as the Core 2 Extreme
QX6850, but uses a 1066MHz front side bus instead of 1333MHz. Our B3
stepping chip didn't manage to get to 3GHz with default voltages, but it did
manage to get there with a slight bump to 1.35V (which is still inside Intel's
recommendations) gave us the stability we required. The newer G0 stepping should
require less voltage than this to get to 3GHz and there should be the potential
for higher overclocks too.
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