Core 2 Duo E6600 Stepping B2

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Is this a decent stepping? Does stepping matter for the C2D like it did for AMD's chips?
 
B2 is the first official stepping for the Core 2 Duo chips.

B3 is just showing up and there is almost no information on what's new.

The regular B2 is a hell of an overclocker. Most people can reach 3ghz, others 3.6ghz and some 4ghz.

Just get one that was made or shipped in a recent week. (code available on box)

Look for L6xx ( the x's mean manufacturing week)

Some weeks such as 30 and 31 have shown great potential!
 
Great!

My week 30A can do 4ghz with only 1.52 Volts stable on AIR!

3.6ghz with 1.375 or less......
 
orion23 said:
Great!

My week 30 can do 4ghz with only 1.52 Volts stable on AIR!

3.6ghz with 1.375 or less......
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nice. is that 30A or 30B?
 
orion23 said:
Great!

My week 30 can do 4ghz with only 1.52 Volts stable on AIR!

3.6ghz with 1.375 or less......
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4ghz stable on air is actually rare :) You must be lucky
 
You people and that stupid orthos stable for one giga million hours stable.........

Can someone explain tome when and how a regular user will load both cores @ 100% for 8 hours straight other than to let some stressing tool do its thing?

Do you Orthos people even get to use a computer for regular stuff, or is orthos all you guys ever do?

Orthos On AIR @ 4ghz cannot be done (unless outside in the freezing cold)


I've been gaming for hours, unpacking / repacking files, editing / converting video, opening the new IE 7 with 8 Home pages all @ the same time without a problem.

And that's all I care about............
 
orion23 said:
You people and that stupid orthos stable for one giga million hours stable.........

Can someone explain tome when and how a regular user will load both cores @ 100% for 8 hours straight other than to let some stressing tool do its thing?

Do you Orthos people even get to use a computer for regular stuff, or is orthos all you guys ever do?

Orthos On AIR @ 4ghz cannot be done (unless outside in the freezing cold)


I've been gaming for hours, unpacking / repacking files, editing / converting video, opening the new IE 7 with 8 Home pages all @ the same time without a problem.

And that's all I care about............
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Ok, that's all you care about. Fine. As long as you're not running into problems on what you do, then fine.

What would you say in my case then? For everything I "do", it is more or less stable. However, even with everything stock, I can't run orthos or any of the 3dmarks on loop without my machine locking up after a while. It can be as long as 8 hours, or as short as 10 minutes. It's really intermittent. However, for the games I play (really only CS), it's fine for over an hour of play. We use orthos as an indicator of stability. If you're saying it's stable for what you do, then orthos doesn't matter, then fine for you. But it's not truly stable. Maybe you'd be pissed too if you couldn't run stock everything without orthos locking up your shit? Or maybe if you ran seti in the background? Would you be comfortable for it maybe miscalculating values and missing the extraterrestrial?!?! Or maybe hell seti will even crash your computer? I bet you'd be pissed then.
 
orion23 said:
You people and that stupid orthos stable for one giga million hours stable.........

Can someone explain tome when and how a regular user will load both cores @ 100% for 8 hours straight other than to let some stressing tool do its thing?

Do you Orthos people even get to use a computer for regular stuff, or is orthos all you guys ever do?

Orthos On AIR @ 4ghz cannot be done (unless outside in the freezing cold)


I've been gaming for hours, unpacking / repacking files, editing / converting video, opening the new IE 7 with 8 Home pages all @ the same time without a problem.

And that's all I care about............
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I just like to know that my computer is completely stable in everything I'll ever throw at it. I don't want to say "well...my computer stable at 50% load, but any more I don't know. It might hurt it..."

I want to see know that my computer can run balls out for any amount of time and not worry about it freezing/restarting.

You may be fine for what you do now, but when multithreaded games start coming out and peg the CPU at 100%, you may find yourself not as stable as you first thought.

To me there's two kinds of stable: 1. The "yeah my computer can un-zip files and surf the 'net and play some games and rip some mp3's and run super-pi 1M stable. 2. 100% balls to the wall stable (Orthos 12+hr/s) so that you know that NOTHING will faze your computer...Save for a power outage :p
 
I know what the purpose of orthos is.......I just don't think it is the same rule for everyone.....

I have my computer running @ 3.6ghz with 1.387 (BIOS) 1.34 in Windows and it is on Day and Night.

Constantly processing a 40000+ music library, playing with small video files. If I want orthos stable I have to use about 1.41V in Bios.

I can boot @ 4ghz with 1.48V and play around a lot with those settings. Gaming and 3DMark06 require 1.52V though.

I will in the near future upgrade to water cooling or a cascade system and only then will I bother with the orthos 8 hour marathon for your pleasure, Oh wait, someone said that it should be 12 hours instead, and now that I think about it, someone else said that problem would only show after 24 hours or so, and others say that 48 hours straight wouldn't be that bad...

I mean WTF? Can you really stress your computer that long during a real life operation?
 
orion23 said:
I mean WTF? Can you really stress your computer that long during a real life operation?
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I have ClimatePrediction up and running non-stop for several weeks now, and that's a lot more hours than 48.
;)
 
FYI, Distributed Computing (DC) projects (like Rosetta@Home, or Folding, or SETI) that use 100% of both cores.

DC projects are being done by hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide. IN THE REAL WORLD!!
 
Um, I do prime95 (dual) in order to make sure that my CPU won't produce errors at full load. It's really as simple as that. It's not "stupid" to do so. When IE crashes or a game freezes, I want to know that it's not my CPU or my overclock. When I've put my OC through 24 hours of torture via Prime95, I can be relatively certain that my CPU isn't the culprit. But, if it were giving errors with Prime95, I'd have to consider it more seriously.

I've actually tried to be less a. retentive about Prime95 24-hour stability. But both times I've tried to let it slide, I've found that my system was indeed unstable in various games until I did actually remedy the Prime95 errors via more vcore or dialing back the OC altogether.
 
tombew said:
FYI, Distributed Computing (DC) projects (like Rosetta@Home, or Folding, or SETI) that use 100% of both cores.

DC projects are being done by hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide. IN THE REAL WORLD!!
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WOW, I didn't know those applications would be able to fully use 100% of the computer's power.......

I'm speachless here.......
 
3d studio max render.. 100% both cores.... for professional use. so yeah i need a 24hr+ stable orthos system.
 
orion23 said:
WOW, I didn't know those applications would be able to fully use 100% of the computer's power.......

I'm speachless here.......
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They're designed to take everything your cpu can give them - be it 500MHz celeron or 500GHz processor from the future. :rolleyes:
 
Bringing this thread back for a few questions..

Having sold my AMD Opteron 170 (overclocked to 2.7ghz), I have officially "defected" over to the Intel side. Today, I went out and purchased the E6600. I've done a little reading on the steppings and some say this... some say that... I know each stepping has its good and bad apples.. But somewhere in the stepping, a "happy" medium is usually observed. Some steppings are better than others.

In looking at the stepping on my E6600, it reads as follows: L628A378. Is that good? Bad? Mixed reviews? I would be happy with 3.6ghz but honestly, if I could join the 4ghz club, that would be awesome. I just purchased this HSF:

http://www.frozencpu.com/products/5...ay_Controller_-_Intel_LGA_775_CSCOO00004.html

Can I expect the Vigor Monsoon II to adequetly keep my new E6600 cool? Also, I have yet to purchase my RAM and Motherboard yet, so your input would DEFINATELY be a welcome (to help me achieve 4ghz). I'm told that the eVGA 680i and the Monsoon II are not compatible (mounting interference). I intend on buying a second 8800gts so it would need to be an SLi board. Thanks SOOOOOO much for any input.
 
my 28b runs great @ 3.6 on 1.4v..50c max on full load after 24+ hr orthos.. i bet i can get it to 3.8 or more but just recently got it a few weeks ago and too busy to try it at 3.7-3.8range.. have heard great stuff with "B" cpus from xtremeforum
 
officermartinez said:
Bringing this thread back for a few questions..

Having sold my AMD Opteron 170 (overclocked to 2.7ghz), I have officially "defected" over to the Intel side. Today, I went out and purchased the E6600. I've done a little reading on the steppings and some say this... some say that... I know each stepping has its good and bad apples.. But somewhere in the stepping, a "happy" medium is usually observed. Some steppings are better than others.

In looking at the stepping on my E6600, it reads as follows: L628A378. Is that good? Bad? Mixed reviews? I would be happy with 3.6ghz but honestly, if I could join the 4ghz club, that would be awesome. I just purchased this HSF:

http://www.frozencpu.com/products/5...ay_Controller_-_Intel_LGA_775_CSCOO00004.html

Can I expect the Vigor Monsoon II to adequetly keep my new E6600 cool? Also, I have yet to purchase my RAM and Motherboard yet, so your input would DEFINATELY be a welcome (to help me achieve 4ghz). I'm told that the eVGA 680i and the Monsoon II are not compatible (mounting interference). I intend on buying a second 8800gts so it would need to be an SLi board. Thanks SOOOOOO much for any input.
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That monsoon will probably have a hard time keeping your cpu at bay when overclocked and enduring higher vcore's. the TEC it uses is puny as all hell, I recall 65W. Then again, I believe the vigor uses heatpipes direct to under the tec as well so it helps some, but not sure how well it does overall in that regard. TEC could very well be cockblocking the heat
 
Good to know! I know 4ghz is just wishful thinking for 24/7 use (or is it..lol), but any little bit helps. Week 28 chips are generally regarded as good from what everyone is telling me, but its always nice to get "real world" feedback / screenies (especially on HardForum.. Not just "word of mouth" ..like, I hear this.. it probably could do that.. it should be possible if.. etc..). It's always nice to see the seemingly "average" overclocker achieving the 4ghz barrier..
 
Well my week 28A e6600 is a pretty good overclocker.. I just successfully hit 3.75ghz. Not bad. I am totally happy with my setup.


Overclocked3-3.jpg
 
orion23 said:
B2 is the first official stepping for the Core 2 Duo chips.

B3 is just showing up and there is almost no information on what's new.

The regular B2 is a hell of an overclocker. Most people can reach 3ghz, others 3.6ghz and some 4ghz.

Just get one that was made or shipped in a recent week. (code available on box)

Look for L6xx ( the x's mean manufacturing week)

Some weeks such as 30 and 31 have shown great potential!
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wow my is l631b125 thats ok????
 
Yeah.. Ive read a few good things about L631.. I think people are trying to avoid week 36 chips (L636)..
 
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