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Originally Posted by bronco67
I have one of those also. I loved the price, but Overclocking was nowhere near as good as the qx line of CPUs.
I got my qx6700 up to 3.2ghz stable. You actually got more out of the q6600 than I did. I'd be happy with what you got.
Now, the new chips coming out nov 12(penryn, I believe) have been OC'd all the way up to 5ghz. the price will be about 1000 bucks on those. I have a 3D animation business, so I need all the horsepower I can get, and too much is never enough.
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I'm surprised it was so easy to push it by +25% without making any major changes. I should add that I didn't really do much besides look at the idle temp, decided I was probably going too far without understanding the possible consequences, then rebooted and dropped back to +10%
I'm giving the CPU a workout @2.64GHz right now and core 0 is averaging about 54C.
I upgraded from a Pentium D 3.0 GHz so the first thing I had to get over was that a drop in processor clock didn't matter.
It's converting Canon RAW images at about 2.5 times the rate that my Pentium D did.