Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Overclocking Report

jmke · 25th July 2007, 11:19

ne comparison that we’ve made in the office over the last week or so since we started really tinkering with our Core 2 Quad Q6600 is to the Athlon XP 2500+ for those of you that remember that CPU. At the time, AMD’s flagship processor was the XP 3200+, which was clocked at 11x200MHz. The XP 2500+ shared the same multiplier as the 3200+, but used the slower 166MHz front side bus speed.

Getting flagship performance out of the XP 2500+ was as simple as increasing the front side bus from 166MHz to 200MHz – virtually every processor did that on stock volts. I think we’re going to see something similar with the Core 2 Quad Q6600 – it shares the same multiplier as the Core 2 Extreme QX6850, but uses a 1066MHz front side bus instead of 1333MHz.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/200...2_quad_q6600/1

26th July 2007, 00:14

Interesting P5K vs 680i OC comparison, but unfortunately they were using a B3 revision Q6600 for their tests.

26th July 2007, 01:44

Interesting... They claim it is an XFX board, but they are using a eVGA board in their photo

26th July 2007, 09:12

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kougar

Interesting P5K vs 680i OC comparison, but unfortunately they were using a B3 revision Q6600 for their tests.

It is pretty much common knowledge that the P35 is better than the 680.

25th July 2007, 11:19	#1
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,010	Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Overclocking Report ne comparison that we’ve made in the office over the last week or so since we started really tinkering with our Core 2 Quad Q6600 is to the Athlon XP 2500+ for those of you that remember that CPU. At the time, AMD’s flagship processor was the XP 3200+, which was clocked at 11x200MHz. The XP 2500+ shared the same multiplier as the 3200+, but used the slower 166MHz front side bus speed. Getting flagship performance out of the XP 2500+ was as simple as increasing the front side bus from 166MHz to 200MHz – virtually every processor did that on stock volts. I think we’re going to see something similar with the Core 2 Quad Q6600 – it shares the same multiplier as the Core 2 Extreme QX6850, but uses a 1066MHz front side bus instead of 1333MHz. http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/200...2_quad_q6600/1 __________________

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26th July 2007, 00:14	#2
Kougar Posts: n/a	Interesting P5K vs 680i OC comparison, but unfortunately they were using a B3 revision Q6600 for their tests.

26th July 2007, 01:44	#3
Kougar Posts: n/a	Interesting... They claim it is an XFX board, but they are using a eVGA board in their photo