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Feb 09, 2012
A great quad core, great overclocker, and a great bargain!
1 of 1 found this helpful The Q6600 is still a quality processor for gaming, office, web, video, and other application needs. It's no coincidence that Steam (by Valve) hardware survey reports released in 2012 indicate that Quad Core market share is rising among gamers; a dual core simply doesn't cut it anymore.
If you buy a Q6600, make sure you get a G0 stepping. If the seller doesn't make this clear, a G0 stepping (versus a B3 stepping) Q6600 will have "SLACR" and "Malay" etched on the top. Pretend SLACR is pronounced like "Slacker". Then remember "Slackers have more fun". You want to have fun, right? ;)
A good comparison to the Q6600 is the AMD Opteron 1354, released about the same time. The Opteron 1354 runs hotter (115W TDP vs. 95W TDP) and does not perform as well at the same clock speed in some Intel optimized applications. Overall there isn't a whole lot of difference in performance between them so long as you put either in quality motherboards.
Honestly, without overclocking, neither CPU is very hip anymore. You should spend the extra money and ebay a good cooler, like a Prolimatech Megahalems or a Corsair H60. Q6600s often very easily overclock to 3.2GHz or higher in good boards. The Opteron 1354 often overclocks to about 3.0GHz (and is stock clocked 200MHz lower). I have owned several Q6600s, and none of them ever failed to o/c to 3.2GHz and run rock stable. With the Corsair H60 or Megahalems, generally all you have to do is set the CPU vcore volts to 1.5, the FSB to 1600, and the multiplier to 8, and you're done.
If you want to tweak voltages down you can, but a Q6600 @ 3.2 at 1.5v on a Megahalem running Intel Burn Test or Prime 95 for 10 hours may see 60c max temp, or 32-40c max on an H60. Nothing to worry about.
It's a great CPU and you can save a lot of money ebaying a Q6600 instead of a newer Q8400 or faster and overclocking it.
Happy ebaying!
Jul 30, 2025
I'm running this on an EPYC 7B12 and it'...
I'm running this on an EPYC 7B12 and it's doing an excellent job.