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Overclocking a Quad Core....
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Sapphiron
Honorary Master
It highly depends on your cooler and your airflow in your chassis
I got my my Q6600 on a nforce 680i chipset to 3.2Ghz with a Zalman 9700 cooler in a Antec P180 chassis. At those clocks I was pushing dangerous temps close to 60 with my fans in silent mode. I reduces the clocks to about 3ghz and now they never go above 55.
I have no doubt that if you have no problems with your PC sounding like a vacuum cleaner, and you have a better motherboard (P35 chipset), you can get it to 3.4 or 3.6Gghz if you are brave.
2.8 to 3Ghz is what you should be looking at.
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with your Intel board you are pretty screwed. There is a very good reason they are so cheap. They cut corners and provide you with the least that they can get away with.
Intel boards today are not the Intel boards of 2-3 years ago.
I got my my Q6600 on a nforce 680i chipset to 3.2Ghz with a Zalman 9700 cooler in a Antec P180 chassis. At those clocks I was pushing dangerous temps close to 60 with my fans in silent mode. I reduces the clocks to about 3ghz and now they never go above 55.
I have no doubt that if you have no problems with your PC sounding like a vacuum cleaner, and you have a better motherboard (P35 chipset), you can get it to 3.4 or 3.6Gghz if you are brave.
2.8 to 3Ghz is what you should be looking at.
EDIT:
with your Intel board you are pretty screwed. There is a very good reason they are so cheap. They cut corners and provide you with the least that they can get away with.
Intel boards today are not the Intel boards of 2-3 years ago.
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GreatBigMouth
Expert Member
Why on earth would you want to overclock a quad core CPU? 
Ekhaatvensters
Executive Member
Why on earth would you want to overclock a quad core CPU?
The same reason you'd want to OC any CPU, speed.
AMD's new OC'ing tool for Phenom looks interesting, you can OC each core independently. I'm not sure if I really see the point, but I would think that especially for gaming having only 2 cores OC'ed would make sense, you get less heat and can OC those two that are mostly used higher?
Or it's just for fun.
tian.
Well-Known Member
or since not all cpus or cores are equal, it's to be able to reach the absolute max of each individual core, instead of being limited by the weakest link...Or it's just for fun.
back to the topic, yeah you're pretty much screwed with an intel board (trust me, i know
)they're great for the average-non-overclocking-man-on-the-street, and get the job done, but that's it.
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Ekhaatvensters
Executive Member
or since not all cpus or cores are equal, it's to be able to reach the absolute max of each individual core, instead of being limited by the weakest link...
lol, ye that makes more sense.
Clever actually, I wonder if Intel will copy them some time.The same reason you'd want to OC any CPU, speed.
AMD's new OC'ing tool for Phenom looks interesting, you can OC each core independently. I'm not sure if I really see the point, but I would think that especially for gaming having only 2 cores OC'ed would make sense, you get less heat and can OC those two that are mostly used higher?
Or it's just for fun.
Which is also total bs spun by AMD as no games and probably no Windows apps take full advantage of multicore processing. Even on the UNIX based MacOSx and my quad core setup here, I max out at 70% of all 4 cores - thats with a full 64 bit OS and multithreaded apps (Compressor).
However overclocking your multi-core CPU to speed things up will
work as most of the time the OS/app/game uses just one core and if
that single core runs at 3.2 vs 2.6GHz you're scoring.
tian.
Well-Known Member
have you seen the CPU usage by Crysis, UT3 or Bioshock?
and that's just a few examples... (.. of which i can think at this time of night)
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The_Techie
Resident Techie
I overclocked my Q6600 to 3GHz comfortably a while back with Intel's stock cooling
tian.
Well-Known Member
well on intel boards there aren't any options for overclocking in the bios, and neither is there a windows based app that i'm aware of...
so even if the board could handle it, you cant... i think...
PearlJam
Expert Member
Got 3.4 easily with temps rising to 60c whilst running 3dmark and pcmark, temps can be lower but the place where my machine stands doesn't allow proper airflow.