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Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.40GHz Socket 775 OEM Processor
Anyone use this CPU? How’s the performance in Multitasking? Preview in Realtime? And Render speed (esp. with H.264)? Which Board do you use with it? Do you overclock?
Thanks,
Perry -
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We have one of those on a ASUS P5W board. It performs very well, but obviously, it’s not the Xeon Breed. Render times is really a relative term. HD, SD, complexity, can really make a big difference. For HD, 720P 24 at 100% quality, I was looking at almost exactly real time encoding. 10 minutes for 10 minutes. That’s on a RAID 5 by the way.
Vince
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I skipped the other questions. Yes, overclocked to 3 Ghz and change, real time preview with no render, up to 720P in QT animation with some color correction, that’s with an 8800 GTS for graphics. With DVC Pro HD, you can easily go 1080P with effects.
You’ll have to ditch the stock fan or it will probably overheat. I always use Zalman fans and plenty of thermal paste, and this CPU is running at about 20 C most of the time.
Cheers,
Vince
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Vince
“20 C” Are you certain that’s correct? 20C is 68F. I run that processor overclocked to 3gb with a Zalman fan, and at idle it runs about 90F. When rendering mpg2 (for DVD generation), it gets up to about 120F.
Bill Buchanan
Buchanan Film Co -
Absolutely, this is a screen cap at idle. It’ll creep up to about 25 on a C4D render. This is in a rackmount case mind you, so the airflow is as good as it gets with about 10 fans.
Cheers,
Vince
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Amazing. Now I’m concerned I might not have applied enough thermal paste when I installed the chip and Zalman setup. My MB, etc. is in a large server case with several 120mm fans blowing/venting in the correct directions. Plus all the equipment is in an air-conditioned room the size of a walk-in closet, usually cold enough to store meat in. Me thinks something must be awry.
Bill Buchanan
Buchanan Film Co -
Bill,
You temps don’t seem overly concerning. Nothing compared to what we were getting with the stock fan. And these are really good at shutting down when it gets too high.
I think I used the Arctic Silver paste on that one.
Cheers,
Vince
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One thing comes to mind. I used some old paste rather than Zalman’s hi-temp stuff. Thanks for the info.
Bill Buchanan
Buchanan Film Co -
Another thought. Are you using the separate Zalman kit to screw the heatsink to the board or just the plastic mount? I found that made the biggest difference.
Vince
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Believe I used the plastic mount with the tension spring hold-down, but not sure. Will keep that in mind when I remove to re-do the grease. Thanks again for the tip.
Bill Buchanan
Buchanan Film Co -
Thanks All, I am running to get another heat sink. But, honesetly, what is an acceptable temp on idle and on full load? (i.e. CPU temp and Core Temp) BTW, what model # is your heat sink, Vincent?
Perry
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