Ahhh time to kiss goodbye to 1.2K a day and welcome to 2.5K RAC. Got my new processor today and its a peach of a chip. 3.15 GHz on high end air cooling :D most quads will only do 3 GHz ^^ God bless the G0 revision.
I have a Gigabyte 965P-DS3P motherboard which is a great overclocker.
Cheap Crucial RAM DDR2 PC2-4200 (DDR2 533) 2x 1Gb
My heatsink is a Zalmann CNPS9700LED runs the CPU at 60C under full load.
CPU voltage is stock but the FSB and RAM is over volted by 0.1V it seems to help with my mobo.
Its all in a nicely vented Lian Li case.
Mostly I think I have got a great chip. The Quad is just 2 Core 2 Duo's bolted together, so you have to get lucky with both CPU dies. Kind of cuts the chances of finding a peach chip.
Oh and you need a good power supply. At 3.4GHz the CPU is using 125W so use a 600W PSU at the minimum, 800W if you have a high end GFx card as well.
Oh and you need a good power supply. At 3.4GHz the CPU is using 125W so use a 600W PSU at the minimum, 800W if you have a high end GFx card as well.
Nice system and CPU, not sure that the power requirements are so high if you're still on stock voltage though?
I'm using a 420W 85% efficiency PSU with the Q6600's voltage upped by 0.05v (the old B3 stepping). (Obviously a lower efficiency PSU would need a higher wattage).
OK *slight* exaggeration At its standard 2.6 GHz uses 83W under full load so at 3.4GHz it should ~110W.
I still stand by using a 600W PSU anything less and you are straining components. Never a good thing on such a vital piece of kit. I blew a PSU once and it took my RAID array mobo and GFx card with it.