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Overclocked Quad longevity

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dmw5678

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I had a mild 3.2 overclock on my quad core q6600 and it lasted about 11 months. My pc stays on 24/7 365 with occasional reboots for service patches and new gear. Anyone with similiar usage last longer the 11 months?
 
Do you mean that your overclock failed after 11 months, or that you are no longer clocking it that high, or have a different chip now?
 
Got mine Aug 2006, its now Dec 08 and still running 3.6! NB didn't like running 450 for that whole time though, had to raise NB voltage to 1.4V back in Oct to maintain stability.
 
q6600 @ 9x333 since June of 2007
x3360 @ 8.5x400 since April of 2008

...both still going fine.
 
homie you gonna need to clarify, if your overclock died after 11 months, then you got a sucky chip. You should be able to go many years without issue.
 
I have a B3 stepping Q6600 that I just retired to my HTPC setup, It had been running 3.2GHz (400x8) at 1.5v (poor chip to clock) for just over a year and its new role is at stock due to needing a quiet system. My Q6700 has been running at the same settings but 1.38v for the last 7 months without problems as well.

As long as you had proper cooling and not run at excessively high voltage it should have lasted al ot longer than that.
 
I punish my X3330 and my old Q9400 with 1.4+ volts and haven't had a single hiccup yet. Most of the time I see a user complain about "degradation" on an OC, it's usually the mobo or the ram.
 
Q6600 @ 3.74Ghz for quite a few months now. Originally I had a P965 based board that would only clock it to 3.2Ghz. Then I got my current board and promptly stuck it at 3.6Ghz. Then I tweaked it a bit more and was able to get 3.74Ghz stable.

It has been overclocked for at least a year now.
 
Q6600@3.6 since Feb 2008.
Q6600@3.51 and then 3.4 (probably due to the 965P chipset motherboard) since March 2008.
Q6600@3.6 since March 2008.

The only time I had a problem was with the one system and I'm dead sure the problem is with the chipset. The 965P chipset does not play the best with quads when overclocking. The other two Q6600s are run in P35 chipset boards and haven't shown a single sign of instability.

I don't expect to see any less life out of my Q6600s than I have any other CPU I've overclocked the crap out of. As it is, I have never had a CPU die from overclocking and I have a couple that have been overclocked for about 5 years or so. They still run the top overclock they had back in the day.

 
The chip died overclocked to 3.2 the vcore was stock I believe or a few points up. I had the pc on 24/7 for about a year to the day it would no longer post on my DFI P35 board. The CPU was water cooled so temps were good. In any case Intel honered the warranty.
 
still going, and air cooled no less at 2+ years... something was up with that setup, perhaps undervolting? or just pure chance that it went
 
Dead Intel CPUs are not very rare.

I worked as a Dell onsite tech for 2 years and saw quite a few Intel CPUs that had died.

From simple no-post to making a 4 heatpipe heatsink get really hot wthin about 30 seconds with no post to causing weird freaky errors and failing the Dell diags I am no longer under the impression that Intel CPUs are as reliable as AMD CPUs.

And there was also a period where I saw a whole bunch of Intel CPUs that would cause crashes if Hyperthreading was turned on. Same thing for DEP.

At the job I work at now, I have seen 3 or 4 dead Intel CPUs since March 2008.
 
I just love hearing about q6600s. I kinda wish I kept one just for kicks. I remember paying 5 bones in the beginning and have purchased several thereafter.
 
hi everyone!!

Hmm... Does that mean they're not all that reliable when overclocked? Cause I'm about to purchase one, only I'm not sure what board to buy!

Actually, I'm not sure should I just go with a i7, then proceed to OC that instead. lol.
 
UltraNEO* said:
hi everyone!!

Hmm... Does that mean they're not all that reliable when overclocked? Cause I'm about to purchase one, only I'm not sure what board to buy!

Actually, I'm not sure should I just go with a i7, then proceed to OC that instead. lol.
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If you read the whole thread, you would see that in general, overclocked chips last quite a long time.

{ersonally, I have never had a CPU from AMD or Intel die due to overclocking and I have been overclocking CPUs since the days of the 80386 processors.
 
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