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Q6600

hank123 said:
no what is FSB? what the heck does FSB have to do with anything?
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Jospeh said:
Unless you are getting a hell of a deal the Q6600 is not worth it.
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I swear some of you are just getting off the newbie bus...

Here it is, short and to the point.


Motherboards that support 1066 FSB, and don't already have a Q6600 would be ill-advised to not upgrade to a Q6600; if their usage determined the need for a quad.

The Kentsfield's are the pennacle of the 775 chipset @ 1066.
 
xfile said:
I purchased my Q6600 SLACR nearly 2 years ago now......never overclocked it. I assume it would be a good OC'r though as it was an early batch. My FPSs and video encoding still don't overwhelm it so, oddly enough, I have little itch to upgrade to anything in the CPU area.
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I'm in the same boat, except I ended up with a B3. I was caught up in the frenzy at the time, shortly after the release of the E6750 and E6850, and got unlucky on the lottery. I mean, it does 3.0GHz at stock voltage and in 2 years I haven't felt the itch to upgrade it like I have twice with my video card. Definitely the best CPU I've ever owned.
 
krameriffic said:
I'm in the same boat, except I ended up with a B3. I was caught up in the frenzy at the time, shortly after the release of the E6750 and E6850, and got unlucky on the lottery. I mean, it does 3.0GHz at stock voltage and in 2 years I haven't felt the itch to upgrade it like I have twice with my video card. Definitely the best CPU I've ever owned.
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Same. I just pushed mine to 3.2 and it needs nearly 1.5v to run stable. :(

It's alright though, I don't need much more than that for Arma 2 (get to 90% CPU usage, just barely) so I can deal with it.

Curse you B3 chips! :D
 
saedrin said:
Same. I just pushed mine to 3.2 and it needs nearly 1.5v to run stable. :(

It's alright though, I don't need much more than that for Arma 2 (get to 90% CPU usage, just barely) so I can deal with it.

Curse you B3 chips! :D
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Yikes, mine goes up to 3.5 stable with stock voltage.
 
Mine has always been a little bastard, on 3 different boards it just sucks the voltage down like mad.
 
I love my q6600... It runs beautifully at 3.6ghz. But its hot.... really really hot... Idle is around 50c @ 3.6ghz



Would I buy one now? Probably not. I would go i7 or dual-core.
 
Mine is a G0 and I can do 3.6ghz stable but need close to 1.5v.

I'm watercooled and it idles at 50C but only goes to 59C under load..

If I was buying a new PC now I'd go i7 as well.
 
Find a nearby Microcenter and you can get an i7 920 for the same price as the Q6600 on Newegg.
 
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