Q6600 Overclock help

[D@RKSID3]

I'm planning to overclock my Q6600 soon from 2.4GHz to 3.0/3.2GHz very soon!.

I wondered if i need a better heat sink provided with the processor and what sort of cooling i would nees for this?

 

[AUTOBOOT2000]

I'm planning to overclock my Q6600 soon from 2.4GHz to 3.0/3.2GHz very soon!.

I wondered if i need a better heat sink provided with the processor and what sort of cooling i would nees for this?

Why not just overclock to 4ghz?

 

[Kornowski]

Why not just overclock to 4ghz?

It's a Q6600, you're lucky to get those speeds even with WC'ing.

Well, I'm guessing you're using the stock HSF, right?

Download CoreTemp and post a screenshot here.

Then, download Prime95, this will stress all 4 cores of your CPU to 100%. Do this with CoreTemp open and post a screenshot, or the temperatures here. Just so we can see how much headroom you'll have.

I'd recommend taking a look at the idle temperatures first, and then post them here before you start stressing the system.

 

[D@RKSID3]

I would but i haven't assembled my comp. yet. I thought I'd plan ahead so as to get the most out of my PC, and so i could buy the needed extra's before i completed the assembly.

 

[lovely?]

even computers with the exact same specs will overclock differently, theres just too many factors contributing to how high you can overclock to realistically plan ahead an overclock. overclocking a Q6600, you can safely bet on 3.0ghz but past that depends on a few different things, like voltage, cooling, motherboard, ram, northbridge...