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I made the jump...

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I posted a thread a while back about my motherboard dying and how frustrated I was. Well, I sent that board back to Gigabyte for repairs (a P35C DS3R) and simply got another P35C from Newegg when I made an impulse purchase and went for a Q6600.

I was used to using a lapped E6400 that could run 3.6GHz on air with no problems. But, the temperature got pretty darned warm even on my lapped Tuniq tower.

You can also imagine how happy I was to see "SLACR" on my Q6600 box when I knew I had the G0 stepping.

So far because I didn't want to deal with lapping a processor and the Tuniq tonight (I just wanted to plug it in and go) I'm amazed by how well the Quad core processor is running on a stock heatsink. I haven't overclocked yet and won't until I put the Tuniq in. However, right now it's running at only 90F-91F on all cores. Idle has gone all the way down to about 86F-88F.

Things are unbelievably fast now too. Boot times are almost cut in half from what I had on the dual core chip.

In my opinion, if you can afford to go Quad core with G0 stepping, it's worth every penny.
 
Change you sig !

Glad you like the new digs !
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Thanks for reminding me. Done and done.

I think I'm going to spend this weekend stretching the processors legs to see how high it will go. I'm also curious how much of a drop lapping the CPU will make in temperatures. Not sure if I will lap it just yet as it seems to perform fine already without it.
 
Depends on how concave your particular chip is. I noticed a 5-8 degree celcius drop over all four cores immediately after lapping, then after my arctic silver set in temps dropped another 3C.

Good luck with the OC'ing.
 
I know how you feel. It's agonizing to be stuck with "only" a dual-core chip at work in comparison to my rig at home.
 
Depends on how concave your particular chip is. I noticed a 5-8 degree celcius drop over all four cores immediately after lapping, then after my arctic silver set in temps dropped another 3C.

Good luck with the OC'ing.
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That is something to consider. Plus it's such a fun project to lap something. Although, I likely won't lap the CPU until after I test it with my Tuniq tower so I can see if there is a performance gain.

I know how you feel. It's agonizing to be stuck with "only" a dual-core chip at work in comparison to my rig at home.
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Exactly. My work computer is a shitty Pentium 4 with HT. I'm sure 3 years ago it was amazing but now I would love to sneak in my E6400 that I'm not using if I wasn't afraid that they'd swap those computers out at any minute for something better.
 
You sure it's not 80*C?
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If it was that hot I couldn't touch the stock heatsink. Before I left for work the temps were around 98F (I was running bittorrent) and the heatsink was only slightly warm to the touch.

It is Fahrenheit. :)
 
Things are unbelievably fast now too. Boot times are almost cut in half from what I had on the dual core chip.
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That sounds pretty amazing and I just went to dual-core. Always one step behind to save money.............:eek:
 
tuskenraider said:
That sounds pretty amazing and I just went to dual-core. Always one step behind to save money.............:eek:
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Man, if I thought for one second that the q6600 would cut my boot times in half I'd be on that thing like a fat chic on cake!!



(Not that you didn't get that result, I just don't think it would happen to my pc)
 
(Not that you didn't get that result, I just don't think it would happen to my pc)
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I have an older version of WindowsXP with not much fluff on it. Plus I try to keep extra programs to a minimum. I boot off of RAID 0 as well and it may not be half as fast it is markedly faster.
 
ChronoReverse said:
I know how you feel. It's agonizing to be stuck with "only" a dual-core chip at work in comparison to my rig at home.
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You think that's bad?
I have a quad at home running at 3.1ghz( damn B3's), 2gb RAM and at work......P4 1.8ghz and 256 RAM......
 
at work I have a 486sx20 with 4mb ram running windows 3.1, I dream about having a P4 1.8ghz :D

and if you told kids that today, they wouldnt believe you
 
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