Q6600 overclock details.

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:46:00 Post Subject:

The Zalman CNPS 9700 is 142mm high (according to the specs) and the Tuniq Tower is just slightly bigger at 153mm. Do you have 11 mm to spare in your case acruxksa? Laughing

I have one of the Tuniq Towers here, and I'm sorry I can't use it. All my systems are slim or otherwise don't allow the size... My favorite cooler of all time!

Dimensionjew · Rated NC-17 Joined: 25 Oct 2006 Posts: 108

THRASHER2 · Posted: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:37:15 Post Subject:

acruxksa · Posted: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:39:50 Post Subject:

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acruxksa · Posted: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:48:54 Post Subject:

qwwwizx · Rated PG Joined: 28 May 2007 Posts: 23

Hi again.

I toasted my memory modules Bang Head

and is after some time up again with new memory Wave

. At the moment I am really annoyed by the noise of all the FANs in the computer. Do any of you have experience with watercooling a 3GHz Q6600 and a 8800GTX?. What brand/system should I go for?

Or do anyone know about something that I should consider?

acruxksa · Posted: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:51:00 Post Subject:

If you are going to go water cooling, do yourself a favor and spec your own kit. don't buy a pre-made kit. There are few kits that have all the right parts (usually just one or two good parts and the rest junk). You can also build a good WC setup for the same or less than the cost of a mediocre kit. There are some good kits out there, but they will cost you.

Proper (successfull) water cooling takes research. Here is a good place to start. Good Luck!!!

On a side note, I've experimented with several types of water cooling over the years ( Chillers, Evaporative, Standard ). I've used store bought radiators, converted car heater cores, fish tank water pumps, small garden fountain pumps, shower heads (evaporative setup) and many other things. The reason I don't currently use WC is because it takes more maintenance and lots more space than air.

If properly setup WC will cool better than air and should be quieter, but you must realize that pushing air through a radiator for your setup will still require at least 2 - 120mm fans. For a quad AND an 8800GTX I would think a 3 - 120mm radiator would be better. These will still make noise. Probably not as much, but it won't be silent and will cost about 3 times what a good air hsf costs. (minimum)

sbrehm72255 · Posted: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:04:44 Post Subject:

If you have a large budget water cooling is the way to go. But from running only a C2D and a 7900GT, my guess would be that a triple radiator would serve you best if you want near silent operation. You can run a Thermochill PA 120.3 radiator along with some 1200 RPM Yate Loons and be silent or damn close anyways and still get good temps for OC'ing, but you're going to need a learge case of such a large setup or mount the radiator outside the case.
For the rest of the loop I'd go with a Laing DDC2 pump with a modded Petra top, Swiftech APOGEE GTX CPU block, and a Swiftech MCW60 GPU block along with a D-Tek sink for your 8800GTX........... Wink

You'll also need to pick up a rez for filling and bleeding, or you can use the cheaper method of using a "T" line with a fill port.

Scharnhorst · Rated PG Joined: 12 Jul 2007 Posts: 11

Ok new to this forum, and you guys seem to know quite a bit about overclocking the q6600. I have no experience overclocking so your if your explanations could be as detailed as possible i'd appreciate it.

I've got a q6600 with zalman 9500at cooler for it, it runs at idle about 50c and under load about 60c. I've got a 680i, ocz 700watt psu, 8800gtx evga, thermaltake armor, 2g of 800mhz patriot ram 4 4 4 12.

I'm not looking to push the limits on anything, I'm looking for maybe getting it upto 3ghz although less would be fine. Couldn't i just set the voltages to automatic? What would be easy fsb number to reach? What are the steps i need to go through to accomplish all this?