OC E6600 question?

[tumnarak]

Does new E6600 can not oc very much when comparing to week 28-30?
Does I understand correctly?

 

[TehQuick]

Not necessarily but on average, yeah, most e6600 after week 32 or so a poor overclockers...

 

[Gaiden133]

Seriously? So those Intel e6600's that people pick up after the price cuts are speculated to don't get as high in overclocks?

 

[TehQuick]

Well, oc'ing is always a roll of dice, so no one can tell for sure

 

[amromousa]

I have a week 30, can't get over 3.3GHz stable. It's driving me nuts (P5N-E SLI)

 

[Sickb0y01]

so you guys recommend the E6420 over the E6600?

 

[hywdx80]

Only time will tell for the e6420

 

[crashthenet44]

Here's a thread you may want to read. Looks like there's a G stepping floating around.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=139582

 

[danny_discus]

Seriously? So those Intel e6600's that people pick up after the price cuts are speculated to don't get as high in overclocks?

Well I would believe it, Intel appears to be getting smarter as to allow the higher end chips to OC easier instead of $200 dollar chips that used blow $900 dollar ones out of the water even when both are overclocked.

 

[TehQuick]

I have a week 30, can't get over 3.3GHz stable. It's driving me nuts (P5N-E SLI)

Might be a mobo limitiation. I tried 3 e6600s, all toped out around 3.3ghz, I wanna mod my NB/SB cooling, see how that would help.

 

[Sickb0y01]

Here's a thread you may want to read. Looks like there's a G stepping floating around.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=139582

Thanks for the link!
good info there

 

[amromousa]

My L630F E6600 is bleh. It gets into Windows at 3.6, etc.. but I can't get it stable at ANYTHING over 3.33 no matter how much (or little) voltage i through at it. Tried both 8x and 9x multis and tried testing to make sure the board can handle the FSB frequencies i'm trying to run at lower multis...grrs