So last week a picked up a Q6600 B3. Still waiting on my x23 paste so instead of not using the chip at all, i decided to wack the stock cooler on.

First thing i notice... the HEAT! Boy, they arent wrong when they say a quad produces twice the heat, duh.
I mean even on my E4300 1.8 -> 3.2, the heat was there, it was an issue but it was managable, under control.
With a quad, DAYAM the heat is ferocious, insecent, out of control.

Now after the first boot, i did what anyone would do, OC the chip. Tried 3.0 first, but it was crazy heat.
Finally settled on 2.7 and it was BARELY surviving.

So after a few tests:
Idle: 50c
Load: 70c before i stopped it
V: ~1.25

So after awhile getting upset i decided to drop the volts.
Did 2 notches at a time and used wprime to hammer all cores.
As the volts dropped temps became more civilised.
Thing is... they just KEPT dropping
Did the anit vdroop pencil mod on the P5B-D

As it sits now the 2.7Ghz is running 1.1v and 1.09 under load (speedfan) 1.285 stock i think.
WTF is up with THAT!
I mean, if i run stock i could probably run 0.975v


If anyone is running similar let me know, cos ive never run this low before

Stats:
Idle: 45-50
Load: 65c
V: 1.09 (load)

lol 70c? thats high for stock intel cooler let alone a crappy heat pipe - the compound needs to flow and heat sink needs to seat ????

I sat mine on but I didnt have any thermal paste so I thought id just turn it on to have a look, and the temps got up to 90 lol.

Only for a few seconds tho, so no harm done.