Re: water cooling??

"Dumbo" <> wrote in message
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>I bought a RoG Striker Extreme and a pre-owned Q6600. The previous owner
>assured me he had run it on air-cooling at 3.5GHz on a P5K mobo. Thinking
>that this assured me of a good overclock I built the system with an AC
>Freezer7 Pro but it wont overclock past 2.7GHz easy and 2.8GHz unstably.
>I've tried everything but it will post but not boot even with all the set
>optimally.
> Would water-cooling be any help or a complete waste of time. I just
> wanted 3GHz and spent the money to achieve it.
>
> Robin

Not a lot of info to go on, but I have the Striker Extreme and Q6600 in the
system I am using now. First of all.......Your memory should be set to it's
default speed or lower while you overclock the processor or you will be
chasing your own tail to get it stable. Once you get your processor to where
you want it, then you can work with the memory. Memory speeds are not as
critical as they used to be with the large, fast caches in the "Core"
processors. I use a Swiftech Quiet Power case with liquid cooling. It is a
rebadged Antec P180 with pump, reservoir, radiator and waterblock all built
into it along with the plumbing. I can run mine at 3.2Ghz very stable and
cool but it takes much more vcore voltage and I have to run my radiator and
intake fans at high speed and it is a bit noisy. I had an E6600 that would
go easily to 3.6Ghz but wound up putting that one into a system for my son.
It seems to me that the Q6600 doesn't respond as well to core voltage
increases as the E6600 did, even though temps are kept at a very acceptable
level. With your air cooling, if you keep the maximum temps at or below 60C
or so, you should be able to get at least 3.0Ghz out of it. What it does in
one MB does not automatically say it will do the same on another. One thing
about the Q6600 over the E6600 is the speed at which it will render large
video and audio files. It is a lot faster, even at a lower CPU speed. Your
software has to be able to support multi-core processors to see the
difference. As far as gaming is concerned, I would not rate one over the
other. The Q6600, even if I lower it to 3.0Ghz will run anything I do which
is mostly simulators like FSX and racing simulations like iRacing. Just
remember to set the memory to "Manual" and the rated speed or lower and see
what you can get from the processor first.

Ed