Intel Q6600 G0 is a beast!

**Regeneration** · November 3rd, 2007, 11:58 AM

With Crysis around the corner, I felt it is a good time to upgrade my CPU. Since AMD offerings are pretty poor at the moment, I went with Intel Q6600 G0, It costs around to around to 300 bucks, 1.25v and max temperature is between 70-85c (G0). With proper cooling, you can hit it up to 4GHz easily, but you need a good motherboard like the Asus Maximus Formula and some good cooler. It is hot here and I am using air-cooling and I clocked it around to 3GHz (429*7), and I am still using the stock voltage (1.25v)!!! This baby is a monster! And probably the best CPU I bought recently. You can grab good motherboard, Q6600 and DDR2 for like 600 bucks. However, to be honest, Crysis is barely running on high even with an 8800GT, Q6600 at 3GHz. Anyway, Asus Maximus Formula and Q6600 is a good combination, Q6600 maximum multiplier is x9 and you can go down to x6, and Maximus Formula highest FSB is around to 500MHz. Here are some screenshots:

Mac Daddy · November 3rd, 2007, 12:04 PM

Looking good I have been eyeing this quad core from Intel glad to hear it works well man ... sweet upgrade

Chaos · November 3rd, 2007, 12:13 PM

sweet

screenager · November 3rd, 2007, 12:33 PM

nice upgrade

can i have your old rig

Zamoldac · November 3rd, 2007, 12:53 PM

i can't deny that the q6600 is a beast ( 2x e6600) but i really don't think that it will make such a big difference on crysis from a dual core, but... the 8800GT will

damn ,you're like so lucky to get one, they are selling like candy

gen.Rage1991hrv · November 3rd, 2007, 01:44 PM

great upgrade Rege
but can u tell me dose all programs and games support Quad core ???
i know that server programs fully support Q core
can anyone show us a test of that ???
have builded 5 quad core pcs and i dont see much deference in games 5-10Fps with GTS640 (compared to 6700)

i can only see a deference in 3dmark , Photoshop , Maya and Some video programs (converters)
maybe a 965 boards cant relise full speed of that core ???
dont know

Unixlord · November 3rd, 2007, 06:21 PM

The main point is benchmarks and bragging rights. This will of course change in the future as multithreaded programming improves.

Since I'm still waiting for mine I can't test this but: does overclocking the PCI-E improve the 8800GT's performance. For a card that supports PCI-E 2 (regardless of marketing hype) I'm curious about this aspect.

gen.Rage1991hrv · November 3rd, 2007, 11:20 PM

Quote:

This will of course change in the future as multithreaded programming improves.

thx for info

about overclocking a pcie
dude that is unsafe shit you can fry your card
anyway i know that overclocking pcie with card that dose not have external power plugs can improve performace because you are forcing more voltage to it over pcie port
but do that with cards that already have enough power it is unsafe
then rather push -5 volt line over variable resistor(ad diod also) on -12v lines and set voltage to 12.5-13v (you can get 16.5v from +12v -5v)
that will give you enough power (no need to oc a PCIE LOL)
hahahahhahahahhahha

jula182 · November 4th, 2007, 06:20 AM

Nice work..sweet

**Regeneration** · November 4th, 2007, 06:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Unixlord

The main point is benchmarks and bragging rights. This will of course change in the future as multithreaded programming improves.

Since I'm still waiting for mine I can't test this but: does overclocking the PCI-E improve the 8800GT's performance. For a card that supports PCI-E 2 (regardless of marketing hype) I'm curious about this aspect.

Nope, PCI-E overclock does nothing.