this would solely be dependant on your applications/programs that you are using whether they are ultilizing the 4 cores or not.

anyways, had some stress test done, and its still a failure cuz i left my comp on for 3ish days and stress it after that... 120 degrees celcius on all cores and after 20-30mins pc auto shutdown... prolly to prevent thermal death

just let it cool down for the day and will stress it again when i get back.

anyways im settling for a 3.1ghz speed, 345 FSB x9 multiplier. 1.45 vcore and 1.4 vFSB

letme know if these settings are good or need changes (so far stress tests are promissing and my 4th core isnt really throwing a fit. only thing left is thermal shutdowns) basically wanna maintain around the 3ghz mark, and around 1.4ghz FSB clocks.

once CPU done, onwards to rams!!!

Really need to wait until quad core price drop. Many ppl will buy then and we can see many oc results.

Can tumpang thread ka? Wanna ask on quad-core. Can't find any other quad-core thread.....

Fact : TDP for QX6700 is 130 watts. TDP for Q6600 is 105 watts.

Question : Would the Q6600 + 8800 GTX run without problems on a 500w PSU?(specifically an enermax liberty 500w). This is my planned future rig as soon as intel drops the prices again on 22nd July.

And would I have problems with OC?

Any quad-core sifu can advise?

Well, even Im not using Quad core im sure liberty 500Watt is enough. Otherwise maybe not if u will SLI ur 88GTX. My also convince my PSU could cope with Quadcore overclocks and a high end graphics .

I sure hope so, but is anybody running quad core on a PSU with 500w or less?

Application nowadays going towards multi-threaded, multi-processing, etc..Going for more core should benefit us in the future. Intel's planning on going 32 cores by the end of 2009 and 48 cores in 2010....Crazy.

should be enough, but not recommended.

I think for longer life for PSU u need around 650W and above. Mine 560W also dont know when should I change again.

getting higher watt PSU does not make them(PSU), or your pc parts last longer.

whoa bro...cool it there man... 120deg Celcius on all cores?
either your software is getting the wrong temperature or you screwed up the thermal diode already...

you should not reach 120'C bro... by that temperature, your CPU should have been dead/shut down already...

yea dude, not shittin ye. thermal shutdown only occured around close to 140 celcius... lol

i dunno, only happens on orthos stress on all 4 cores (4 orthos instances)
other than that, its chillin at 50-60 celcius. darn wierd :/

Maybe thats why its called Extreme Edition.

ok ok...

my idle temp usually around 59'C to 62'C depending on my room temperature...

so it's about right if compare your chillin and my chillin' temp...hehehe...

core temp or using other temp monitoring software? core temp is showing 30% to twice my temp reading from asus pc probe

Core temp is showing real core temp. Asus prob shows processor case temp.

my temp all based on TAT...

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Added on June 25, 2007, 10:41 pmwell...for my case...core temp is consistently giving about 3'C lower compare to TAT readings...so both of them should be giving about right temp...since no big difference....


This post has been edited by kevyeoh: Jun 25 2007, 10:41 PM

Kevyeoh, now ur QX6700 @ 3.2GHz used for 24/7 operation? Any stability problem?

yup... super stable...not a single issue after about 3 months of using...

put it this way, i think you won't find any normal application that will push all 4 cores to 100% all the time....so actually your CPU won't heat up that much at normal application use....

that's my take la... maybe i'm not using any CPU intensive application...

same here, but im runnin on 3.07... and yea orthos passed 12hr stress test on all 4 cores XD

I'm new about overclocking.
this is my humble 1 month old pc....
specs are below

Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700(beta unit)
1024MB Micron 667MHZ DDR2 RAM
MSI nForce650SLI P6NSLI mobo
Leadtek GeForce 8600GT
PSU:PowerLogic 250W
Liteon DVDRW
Maxtor 150GB SATA2 HDD
cooling:Coolermaster processor slot cooling only

hope some comment and any tips on oc it...hehe..

This post has been edited by fookeatmin89: Jun 29 2007, 12:08 AM