There are indeed 3 of them with a 1.325 VID and they are on air with the TRUEs. I set them on 1.5 vcore in the bios and went as high as I could with that setting on all 3 running OCCT then added one more increment of vcore for extra stability. The highest one is 3.49 Ghz the other two are just a little less than that and they are crunchers so I have not messed with them. About the best I got was out of the one with a 1.2250 VID on water 3960 is all I could get 100% stable 24/7 no matter the volts and it will do that with 1.525 setting in the bios, the other one with 1.265 VID 3.9Ghz with water stable. It seems to be hard to get a Q6600 4Ghz stable, most I have seen from others with decent chips are all less than 4Ghz stable, of course there are some people who claim higher but can never produce any proof of said stability...

Edit: @ King, yes I just got my RMA back today....

ah ok, thanks for the vcore/speed/VID info, that gives me some idea that I'm already near the likely max speed... I think the next two stable sweetspots for me would be 3750 and 3825... I'll be surprised if I can get 3825 stable without massive voltage, but I'll have a go anyway

Since when did you ever fear massive voltage?!

After a few hours of benching and the thing would not go over 3.8Ghz stable at any volts, of course it would not go over 3.9 stable to start with. 45nm = fragile....

Did some stability testing, all tests run at 3.4ghz, mem @ stock:

prime95:



pi 1m:


pi 32m:

Long time no see Celcius Still rockin' part of that system you won? Added ya man

thanks
Yeah, I upgraded most of the parts but it looks similar to back then
I gotta get back to posting (been busy lately)

SPi 1M, 4 instances, 3750 MHz
Q6600 - water

Haha, I knew it

SP 1M single instance, 4ghz on Air.

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Added road's suicide and Necron's single run

Q6600 should be red not purple lettering

DUH! Of course, me = noob when posting at school

New superpi 1m, QX9650 @ 4.7Ghz water...

@RR, wow! That is a serious clock. Is it stable there? I assume you are on water.

No, its no wheres near stable and yes it is water. I do good to get the chip stable at 4Ghz and after running benches a few hours at high volts I do good to get it stable at 3.9Ghz now. 45nm=very fragile, doesnt like high volts, degrades very quickly. I will not buy another....

get a server chip...
i have been brutal on this one and it likes it...
this is on air without the ghetto mod.

my new 3870X2 is here...
MUHAHA...

I am going to get a server chip, when they have 8 or more cores on them....

Sick Just sick! Nice clocks both of you.

May as well chuck my updated SuperPi in here as well.

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Updating right now Rehit you posted that suicide already

i know...
i was just poking at road-runner...

Man if I only had to cores to deal with instead of four I would be ashame to post anything less than a Quad can do....

Q6600 @ 3750 MHz
SPi 32M, 4 instances


As usual, time sucks because I was using my computer and am testing stability rather than tweaking SPi times lol

that looks like more than 4 instances in the background...
good thing it is water cooled...

Prelim testing, also passed OCCT/Prime/SPI at same settings on the stock 1.25vcore. TRUE is not making full contact, will reseat tomorrow and start pushing it for real. Not a bad chip at all.

Rehit, you can officially add me to the Xeon Fan Club.

SPI 1M 4.1ghz stock volts.
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**edit** Looks like that already puts me 9th in the 1m single instance . In dual instances second one crashes instantly while first instance completes without a problem. Switch which core they are run on and the one that just passed THEN crashes instantly while the previous instantly crashing core finishes no problemo. OCCT and prime are both stable loading both cores at the same time though. Double you tee eff? Seems like a pretty widespread issue though...

Adding that in a second Puck! Have you tried running HyperPI?

Got some scores ready for you guys!

Super PI 1M 9.625



Suicide Screenshot

Nice one HitandRun, it looks like i'll have to get my benching hat back on again

Cooling HitandRun?

Looks like!



Sorry! CPU on DICE and GPU on air!

Second extreme cooler in the list

Gigabyte GA-X38-DS4
Intel E8400 Wolfdale @ 4.40ghz
G.Skill DDR2-800 HZ's (4X1gb) @ 978mhz
Swiftech H20-220 Apex Ultra

Again, what type of cooling you got there wevsspot?

Sorry King,

I updated my post.

Perfect

[Edit] Not quite I have something else to moan about, this time it's a little more inconvenient for you. We use the SuperPI 1.5 version in this competition, as it displays three decimal places for more exact results. Could you run it again with that version?

Maybe when it cools down a bit again.

This is my main rig and even water cooled my E8400 puts out some serious heat when running it at 4.40ghz and 1.40vcore

I cannot afford to tear anything up

Plus I'm 24hours into a torrent download with 3.2gb remaining and have a OCC FAH deadline I'd like to meet.

I'm ok if you need to delete my entry - I didn't see the specific requirement for that version, but admittedly didn't read every single post, so please excuse my mistake.

I didn't put it in the first post, but I thought it would be natural to use the newest version

Honestly I'm pretty old school. I mean I am an old man according to most everyone here at OCC and DIY-Street. Even Dave called me "old"

I don't feel old at 45, and I've probably forgotten more than some of these young whipper snappers will ever know, but hey that's life. I'm like fine wine, I get better with every year!

IMHO SuperPI is just SuperPI. Really doesn't mean a hill of beans in the big picture. But it's an easy benchmark to run.

I will rerun it when my ambient gets back below 27C. I won't post any benchmark unless it is Prime95, Orthos or OCCT stable.

I'm with you on the "really doesn't mean a hill of beans in the big picture"!

Just thought i'd better add this.



It should give a few peeps a new target

Kit,

What kind of cooling setup are you running?

I can't pass one hour of OCCT at 4.5ghz on my E8400 because I get an overheat error.

I'm water cooling. Swiftech H20-220 Apex Ultra with dual 120 RAD.

He is using phase change, it's in his sig....

Yep, phase. It has been for the last couple of years or so. I would have thought you would of known that Wev.

By the way, is King still keeping this thread updated ?

AFAIK he is but sometimes he misses new post, I had to PM after a couple weeks to update mine...

Kit knows I don't read sigs. unless it's to help some lost soul figure out what's wrong with his/her computer

Anyway Kit, glad to see you're hanging around here and contributing content, and nice clocks on ur rig.

i thought I might add this one here as i go allong with getting the max on this borrowed proc.

^^Nice OC

The way I see it, Super Pi is used to see how fast you can run a computer while still being accurate (to 1 million or 32 million decimal places)... if you don't take your computer beyond stable, how can you truly know your fastest stable OC?

So, for me, SPi is a measure of varying degrees of beyond stable... pushing the speeds higher and the times lower has really taught me a lot about what changes help to increase performance, what is needed to keep stability, and gives me a solid idea of where the limits of stability lie so I can be confident that my highest OCCT/Prime 24+ hour OC isn't teetering on the edge of stability...

SPi is more of an overclocking tool than a pure benchmark... but at the same time, the bench times are handy to see if you are doing something right/wrong when you make changes

Some quick results: